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We knew as the season for skating drew to its close that the first priority (before Meredith went back to school) would be surgery on both of her feet for her flat-feet condition (which her sister shares) that we had confirmed this spring with the family podiatrist. Mere didn’t get nervous about the surgery until [...]
Went to the podiatrist/surgeon on Monday, and he’s leaving in the stitches for longer – I’m a slow healer, and there’s a couple of small gaps in the thing. He’s switched over to a much smaller bandage thing, essentially enough to cover the incision, and has to be redone every day with special silver gel [...]
Susan and Meredith are supposed to leave tomorrow in the morning for Lincoln, Nebraska, to the roller-skating National competition, and they will have to work really hard to be ready by then. I worry about Susan burning the candle at both ends mentally and physically with this trip, but there’s darn little I can do [...]
The latest on all of the medical stuff is that I haven’t healed enough on the bottom of my foot for the Doc to be able to let me really walk on it again, so he has basically told me that I will be off my feet until my next visit with him next Monday [...]
..very quick one. In a fair amount of pain from the operation (and doped up with T3), which went well – lost a pint of blood, and assorted parts of my left foot. Can’t use it at all – very strict doctors orders. And for all those asking, no, I won’t be going to the [...]
The foot surgery is coming up tomorrow (Monday) – have to be at the hospital at 5:30 am, surgery at 7 and probably home by 12 noon or a little later. On the one hand, I’ll be relived to get it behind me and hopefully be a whole lot more functional; however, it’s not going [...]
At the present, my LEFT foot surgery has been rescheduled for the 5th of July; hopefully nothing else will blow that out of the water. My RIGHT foot – well, went to see a podiatrist on that, and he took new X-rays of my foot that show how crippled up it looks (which never fails [...]
(1) The surgery on my LEFT foot is still hanging fire, but this time, it’s because the various docs who had to give me clearance didn’t do so (first due to a goofy EKG that showed up nothing in a stress test, and then due to a white count that is pretty comparable with what [...]
This year, we consolidated our bank stuff from three different banks to one local credit union; two of those banks had just been eaten in big-fish eats littler-fish takeovers (one of which was handled by the FDIC as the bank went bust), and we were paying a hideous amount of money in fees for sneezing [...]
I was scheduled to have surgery on my left foot tomorrow; but because of a oddity in my EKG last week for pre-op clearance, I have to get a stress test for my heart…something about conductivity lag. I was really really tired on the day that the EKG was done, so I don’t know if [...]
I’m finally over a horrible upper respiratory cold that knocked me around quite a bit – with a nasty dry cough that seemed to go on forever. It pretty much levelled me for weeks on end and took a huge chunk out of my general stamina. Everyone else in the house has been felled by [...]
Going to the emergency room with another leg infection, this time from a gash on my right leg…been doing what I could to reduce things over the last few days since I got the gash, but it’s getting red and heating up. You can’t imagine how upset and annoyed I am about this. More later; [...]
The local Sioux Falls paper notes that the voting percentage in the most recent school board election was 3.55% in an editorial asking for voting to be made easier by eliminating precinct voting in favor of at-large polling places scattered around the city. Personally, I think that’s more likely to confuse the heck out of [...]
The ninny right-wing libertarian who runs Whole Paycheck Foods is at it again, giving me more reasons not to shop there over his what-me-worry statements on global warming and evile-socialism stuff on health care.
Meredith is having her last day of school for the year today, and we’re just as happy for her to have some serious down-time. She has been getting really stressed over various things – it’s coming out right now over the tons of homework these kids are assigned – and I’m stating to get really [...]