Yes, I know I'm not around here much these days, but thought I should post my (awesome) schedule for this year's Readercon.

Friday July 15

12:00 PM F Plausible Miracles and Eucatastrophe. Chesya Burke, John Crowley, John Kessel (leader), James Morrow, Graham Sleight. Mark Twain instructed other writers that "the personages of a tale shall ( Read more... )

And topical! From a doctor I work with, who was saddled with a broken foot a few years ago ( Read more... )

So my hospital appointment today was supposed to cover the following:

1) Remove the fibreglass "backslab" cast.
2) Remove the dressings on the wounds from surgery, check they're OK.
3) If Yes to 2), remove the 20-30 metal staples holding the wounds together.

I had an additional appointment on 26th Oct, at which the following was scheduled:

4) X-ray of ( Read more... )

Now that I'm on the mend, this journal is likely to go back to being mostly friends-only; if you'd like to be friended, please leave a comment on this post.

I've recovered sufficiently that I'm making Lj posts as numbered lists. Just like my old self ( Read more... )

Recovery continues. Lots of tiredness, some pain (though decreasing), getting used to the constraints of being at home. Today's hero of the revolution is major_clanger, who was kind enough to trek up here and visit yesterday.

Am home, upstairs, and in bed. :)

If you'd told me at the start of the week I was going to break my leg, I think I'd have been astonished that I wound up talking about it so much in public. I'm automatically suspicious of any urges to self-dramatisation in myself [1] and going on about something like a leg-break would have felt (yes, I know) self-dramatising. But I've been ( Read more... )

All being well, will go home at 10am tomorrow. Will be looked after by family in the first instance, but social services have also been alerted. More updates when I'm back.

Got wheeled off to theatre around 11am, woke in recovery room around 3pm, was back on ward (now ward t6, bed 59), by 4. Awaiting visit from surgeons to tell me how they think it went, although the answer seems to be, fine. Am on morphine pump, woo, about which I'd say that a little goes a long way. Only thing is, it makes typing and concentrating ( Read more... )