Things went remarkably well yesterday, all things considered. I just finally managed to eat some sort of real food (if applesauce and a popsicle count) for lunch today. Prior to that, I was subsisting on saltines and ginger ale, but aside from the barfiness, I did pretty well yesterday ( Read more... )

Surgery tomorrow at a bright and cheery 6:15 a.m. Ugh. My mum pointed out that it's better to be early rather than later in the day, since I'm not allowed to eat or drink anything after midnight tonight ( Read more... )

I just set up a surgery date for my knee, October 24 (a little over three weeks away). I'm leaning heavily towards using an allograft (cadaver tissue) rather than using a tendon from my own knee. So I'll have a zombie knee, right? And just in time for Halloween. My brother wanted to know if they tossed in a free exorcism for when the knee ( Read more... )

When I first injuried my knee (about two and a half weeks ago now), my first thought was "Shit, this is bad. I just tore my ACL." The ER doctor said my ligaments were fine, the ortopedist thought they were fine last week, but as it turns out, I was right. The MRI has the very clear indications of a torn ACL ( Read more... )

I had an appointment with an orthopedist today to follow up on the knee. He was soooooo much more helpful than the ER doctor, but then, he's a specialist, so that makes sense ( Read more... )

I twisted my knee at TKD on Monday night. I came down badly from a flying kick, and I knew as soon as I landed that something went wrong. I heard/felt a "pop", and that's one of the things that can signify bad, bad things happening in a joint. Oh yeah, and it hurt. I went down, and my very wonderful, responsible, sweet classmates (and their ( Read more... )

sylvantechie and I arrived home today, about twelve hours later than we had planned. Long story short: the hotel we were staying at the night before last didn't give us our lovely 4 am wake up call, so we missed our flight. We rebooked for a red-eye through last night. It wasn't all bad. To pass the day yesterday, we rented a car and drove up to Crater ( Read more... )

I knew it was going to be rainy for the morning yesterday, so I tried to plan inside things to do. I went to a local diner and had gingerbread pancakes for breakfast (yum) and started my annual re-reading of "The Hero and the Crown." I didn't get very far, but it was a nice thing to read while my pancakes were cooking ( Read more... )

25 word (or less) review:
Entertaining popcorn movie. Not as clever as the first. Too much giant squid, not enough Captain Jack Sparrow. There's never enough Captain Jack Sparrow.

I'm turning thirty on Thursday. I'm taking that day off work, and I probably won't be at a computer that day, so I'm doing my birthday post a bit early.

We had a lovely little tea party on Saturday (many thanks to squirrelhaven for hosting.) I'd asked people to give me favorite recipes for birthday presents, and I'm really tickled with the ones that I've ( Read more... )