Yes, today is the fifth anniversary of my getting run over in a crosswalk. A nursing student piloting a Subaru crushed my lower left leg and moved my life into a completely different track. Five years and many surgeries later, I yam what I yam, to quote Popeye-the-Tuber. For the whole story (if you haven't had to sit through it already), go here ( Read more... )

"Hungry-angry"...is how Mxo describes my mood when I come home with lowered blood sugar, too much coffee flowing through my veins (and out my ears some days) nothing to eat but one cookie since my meagre lunch, and a bus ride full of fatuous, all-too-audible Other People. Now I don't even get that cookie.

SITUATION:I weighed myself on the weekend ( Read more... )

Yesterday was the mediation with ICBC. I got to my lawyer's office at 9:00 and we sat down with the ICBC adjustor and their lawyer at 9:45. A third lawyer was there to act as mediator (think guy in striped shirt, but more polite and with a larger vocabulary ( Read more... )

To hell with that other rant about video games and dearth of imagination. I'm too tired and you could fill in the blanks yourself. Maybe I should feature Guest Ranters in this LJ, though I would hope the comment feature takes care of that ( Read more... )

So, it has been just over a week since I broke my foot and it seems to be calming down a bit. Still sore and I need a stick to walk but have not had a relapse like on Wednesday night. I just have to take it slow and not overdo it; I do not want to even think about wandering around in Los Angeles and the Nevada desert on a friggin' cane, just ( Read more... )

I. Am. In. Severe. Pain. Ow.Yesterday I was doing pretty well, got home from work and had dinner and things, but after taking a shower my foot really started to hurt and would not calm down. I took two Emtecs (like Tylenol 3 but without the caffeine, so you can sleep) and it did no good at all. It was a constant burning pain that was centred over ( Read more... )

This morning I went for an X-ray and yes, the fifth metatarsal (the long bone about the length of a finger that's behind the little-toe bones) on my right foot is shattered. Fortunately, though, foot bones are already quite well-splinted and supported so I do not need a cast or anything like that. It will need a tensor bandage for about two weeks, ( Read more... )

Last night was Hodgepodge at Second Story Cafe. I went with Eve - I wore my black Sun Yat-Sen jacket and pants, with a couple of school badges I'd picked up in Kudamatsu. Eve did my eyebrows up with black - unfortunately did not get the sweeping Emperor Penguin effect I wanted ( Read more... )