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[andpuff]

My GP called this morning.  Apparently I've knocked off two 3 milimeter pieces of bone -- one from each side of my ankle.  She has no idea how I've managed to do that but one came off with a wrenched tendon and one with a ligament.  Right at the moment, there's nothing stabilizing my ankle so we're heading into the city this afternoon for a lace-up

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[seanan_mcguire]

Let me know if you need help in San Diego. I shall have an Amy on hand.

[andpuff]

Thank you! Hopefully, with the ankle brace, I shall be fully mobile.

[sweetmusic_27]

Oh, dear! What Seanan said, most definitely. Take care of you!

[phillip2637]

I once heard a story about a writer who, every time he wanted a smoke, had one of his characters light up a cigarette. Is there a lot of falling and screaming in the parts you're now working on? :-)

[andpuff]

Actually... um... yes. :)

[hsifyppah]

Both sides! You are bizarrely talented.

I mean, poor sweet baby!

[andpuff]

My doctor: "So what did you do?"
me: "I feel off the step."
her: "No, really?"
me: "Really. I fell off the step."
her: "More than once?"

I haz mad falling skillz...

[dreamtigress]

I once broke my thumb by stepping on it. Bizarrely talented indeed !

[wiliqueen]

I have absolutely no idea how I made it out of my childhood alive, let alone without breaking any bones. The injuries I have gotten are definitely in the "bizarrely talented" category.

Of three concussions, two involved miscalculated ducking (once under the loft in my dorm room, which had been the same height for months). One involved actually getting kicked in the head... in a choreographed fight. (No, it wasn't supposed to connect.)

Then there was the sprain where the doctor couldn't figure out how I'd managed to involve basically every scrap of soft tissue anywhere in my ankle and not incur a fracture. That one was technically a soccer injury, except for the part where I was walking across the field during practice and stepped in a hole

[maiac]

OWCH! Poor sweet baby.

A lace-up ankle brace is so much better than an unremovable cast. Especially since your house doesn't have air conditioning.

Since you didn't mention surgery, I assume you didn't do anything really awful like detach the tendon/ligament. That's a big whew.

To get the right effect from morphine, you need to take it with valium. I still remember the effect of the morphine+valium I got before the doctor straightened my broken leg: "Oh, this is why people do drugs...." Codeine, on the other hand, can bite me.

[starfishchick]

Oh, the lace-up ankle brace sounds MUCH better than the cast.

Hope you are pain-free soon!