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At the bike auction today I stopped by the insurance table for a bike light. I saw a pamphlet about the new laws regarding bike helmets. I told the insurance man,
"I never used to wear a bike helmet until I woke up in an ambulance. When I saw my doctor afterward, I expected a finger-wagging. Instead he told me he also didn't wear one until he went ( Read more... )

A guy on the bus was chatting with me. At one point he said "Can I ask you a question, and be honest." I said sure. He said "Are all women materialistic ( Read more... )

I can stand from sitting in a chair or from the couch much easier and with a lot less pain. I still find stairs hard, but that will come. I still struggle with getting up off the floor, but it's much easier. I am practicing my stretching and the neuromuscular specialist told me to spend time rubbing my foot with different textures to get used to ( Read more... )

Today I saw the neuromuscular specialist. After a lot of poking and prodding and electric shocks, I've learned why it seems that my foot isn't getting much better. I do have some muscle weakness, which means I have some physio to do to get some of that back, but I also have nerve damage. My foot doesn't feel as strong or as stable as it used to ( Read more... )

Well this past year wasn't filled with a lot of great things, I haven't felt like this in a very long time, and my wish for the new year is to not ever feel it again. I will know self-love and self-care again, to enable me to better care for others. I want mindfulnesss, thoughtfulness and generosity to be my way. I will be better than depression ( Read more... )

So I saw the surgeon today, and good news abounds. The cause of the terrible pain I was feeling was in fact a bone chip stuck in a nerve, so he removed the bone chip and took out some "other stuff" (scar tissue I think) to ensure that the nerve wouldn't get caught again. I'm off crutches and will wean myself off the cane in about two weeks. I ( Read more... )

So the surgery seemed to go well, I was only in there for about an hour. However I seem to have had a terrible reaction to a post-surgery drug (probably morphene) they gave me that has made the last couple days go by in a haze of pain, fever and vomiting. I am finally starting to feel myself again and I'm able to eat a little. The best part of ( Read more... )

Coming up on Monday, I am starting to get nervous. I am a lot less nervous about the actual procedure than I am about the result. They still don't exactly know what's wrong with my foot so there's no way to know if they can fix it until they open me up. The theory is that there is a bone chip sitting in a nerve, so if it is that, it will be an easy ( Read more... )

Here are some links to some fun things that amuse me:

http://fyeahtattoos.com Tattoos and plenty of them. I am really interested in the abstract, watercolour style and the 3-D blackwork that seem to be the fads these days. Some not so good, some nice but things I would never get, and some super gorgeous jaw-dropping work. My tattoo was featured on ( Read more... )