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May. 19th, 2004 05:09 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
libertangoSo... Just about 48 hours ago, I broke my leg.
(I never have believed in what the journo guys call "burying the lead" :)
I was coming back from having started a load of laundry. There's two ways to walk back from the laundry room to the apartment -- follow the safe concrete walkways, or take the slippery, grassy slope.
Guess which one I did. :)
I'm just back from the hospital. I now have a metal rod in my leg to reinforce the tibula and fibula, so they'll grow back well.
But now comes the fun part. Probably two weeks minimum of lying around the house with my leg propped up, and about six weeks before everything's back to normal. It's hard to say whether I'll write more or less -- it'll probably depend on my mood.
But that's the news from Lake Wobegon, in case you were wondering why I was suddenly quiet.
(I never have believed in what the journo guys call "burying the lead" :)
I was coming back from having started a load of laundry. There's two ways to walk back from the laundry room to the apartment -- follow the safe concrete walkways, or take the slippery, grassy slope.
Guess which one I did. :)
I'm just back from the hospital. I now have a metal rod in my leg to reinforce the tibula and fibula, so they'll grow back well.
But now comes the fun part. Probably two weeks minimum of lying around the house with my leg propped up, and about six weeks before everything's back to normal. It's hard to say whether I'll write more or less -- it'll probably depend on my mood.
But that's the news from Lake Wobegon, in case you were wondering why I was suddenly quiet.
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Date: 2004-05-19 06:54 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-05-19 07:03 pm (UTC)K.
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Date: 2004-05-19 07:11 pm (UTC)Which is to say, sometimes it hurts a lot, sometimes it's hardly noticeable, but most of the time the pain is a nuisance. Just writing this with my WiFi notebook in bed, for example... I have to keep squirming, trying to optimize for the least pain as I go, and it keeps moving.
The trend has been for improvement for quite a while, though.
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Date: 2004-05-19 07:44 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-05-20 12:42 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-05-20 12:47 am (UTC)Oh the upper side, you can now read as much book as you want! ;-)
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Date: 2004-05-20 05:15 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-05-20 10:48 am (UTC)We can rebuild him! Make him stronger....faster!
Date: 2004-05-20 10:58 am (UTC)Sorry to hear about the busted up leg! But at least now you've got lots of time to spend reading books! Or maybe take up the lost art of letter writing.
Re: We can rebuild him! Make him stronger....faster!
Date: 2004-05-22 06:15 pm (UTC)Letter writing is more difficult, because I don't really have a good writing surface for the bed. Let alone, there's a surprising number of folks for whom I have e-mail addresses, but no snail mail. You and Anna, f'r instance. :)
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Date: 2004-05-20 01:20 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-05-20 10:00 pm (UTC)Also, Hal's laptop monitor crapped out last night. We don't know what happened, but it does cut out the option of web browsing from his sickbed on the couch via the household wireless network, and so much for that clever solution. So he'll probably be back to being silent until he gets better enough to hang out in the office with his leg propped up.
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Date: 2004-05-22 06:12 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-05-24 05:41 pm (UTC)You should be getting back to normal by the time I'm visiting Seattle, though. It would seem that August is the only time I'll be able to pull it off, this year.
If you're looking for something to do (and you've not already devoured it) The English by Jeremy Paxman is brilliant. Certainly appropriate to your earlier post about comparing British poliTV to its American counterpart....
Take care-
~`~Ivy~,~