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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 [...]
For all of the folks in Facebook who invite me to participate in a game: Sorry, don’t have the time to play them, and I distrust a lot of the join-this stuff in Facebook anyway. For all the folks anywhere who invite me to events out of town (Chicago): Sorry, too laid up after the [...]
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 [...]
* the kids have this insatiable desire to mess around with and ride on my walker, wheelchair and roll-about knee walker; Mere has been drooling over the idea of a swiss army knife for a while, bought one with her money, and proceeded to try to disassemble everything in sight – including the aforementioned AND [...]
Thanks for all the good wishes, prayers and thoughts! The pain in my left foot is a LOT less, and I now have my roll-about knee walker, so I’m more mobile to get around inside the basement and out to the driveway – but it’s hot enough that I don’t much feel like doing so. [...]
..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 is the sort of thing that was worrying me about my infections back at the beginning of summer.
“The way to a woman’s BLANK is through her BLANK“, the Obama’s dog will be a BLANK, Nixon and LBJ had worried opinions about the BLANKs all around them, as did the FBI Jefferson Davis had a BLANK spy in his home and Teaching BLANK language in Summer School can get dangerous. (h/t Deb Geisler)
Finally got the orthotics for my feet from the podiatrist, but my *return to work* part is getting delayed. The reason: he wants to make sure the things will work well for me, and there’s been a blood blister (sorry for the TMI) that has arisen on the operation scar. It’s leaking blood at a [...]
If I’m uncommunicative, blame it on an attack of The Paperwork From Hades. Susan and I are seriously in the middle of a Big effort towards some major financial stuff, and I don’t have enough time to see straight in the process, on top of work-work. The podiatrist on Wednesday took a mold of BOTH [...]