Musings

No, that’s not the Doc’s response when he looked at my foot today.

It’s how my new cast became a cast.

The longer story is that the Doc is very happy with my healing (especially X-rays), but there remains sufficient swelling that he did not remove the sutures today, but will do so in two weeks. In the meantime, he had his assistant put me in a hard cast. I got to pick the color….

The last cast I had was a l-o-n-g, l-o-n-g time ago and it was white plaster, like you see in old movies. My new one is made from a wrap that’s activated with water, then molded around my leg at the proper tightness and angles, and left to finish reacting, which will actually take 24 hours to full rigidity, although it became pretty solid within three minutes, through an exothermic reaction. That means it threw off heat, which I could feel on my foot and leg, but only barely.

And here’s a pretty, captured for me by the Guru (thnx!!). White ginger blossom and buds.

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Photo from back in March…. This guy doesn’t look like he has sweaty-neck problems, AND he can hold a building in his hand…if my interpretation is close to correct.

I tentatively took the Steed on a wee outing…which went very well. In the process I got over two inches cut off my tawny locks…part of trying to abate sweaty-neck* syndrome.

* See: exercising the Steed; it’s a cause-and-effect situation.

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AmazingPrime delivered the Steed today. Steed is one of a class of non-motorized vehicles called a knee scooter or knee walker. I put the knee of my bad leg on the pad, release the brake, and walk with my good leg to zoom around!

The basket is really crucial to improving my quality of life. I can hang my water cup handle over the edge of the basket, which means I can refill my water ANYTIME. By MySELF.

It’s a new world (of healing)!

Now I’m working on my stamina…you lose a lot just sitting around.

Rock on!

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Yes, it was a gloomy day (in late May) when we took the Thames ferry past the Millennium Bridge, which points north at St. Paul’s.

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Stair landing, Tate Britain, London, recently.

As a distraction, I’m working my way through Tana French’s Dublin Murder Squad series. I am not getting a strong Irish flavor, which is okay, although I was hoping at least for some slang. Of course, I’m only on the second volume, so maybe it’s coming….

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My sweetie showed me “Doctor Strange,” and I thought about healing on another plane beyond Western medicine. Even so, I won’t be doing Tibet or throwing shards of glass. That means I won’t need the wifi password (see title) at the monastery Doctor Strange visits. Still thinking about ways I have never thought of before of improving my healing.

No connection between text and image. I’m pretty sure! 😎

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During our boat tour focused on the architecture along the Chicago River a month ago, we passed several bascule bridges. This one carried two sets of rails, but is now…offline. Bascule bridges have a big counterweight, and on this one it sits/hangs above the tracks when the bridge is down.

The first bridge across the Chicago River was a pedestrian bridge in approximately this location.

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Ms Becky came by today. She got a steel knee several months back, and is in the pushing rehab phase. We discussed the sensations and mental pictures associated with having metal in your body. She has named her knee Fred, to indicate her acceptance of it.

So now I’m working on a name for my plate-and-pins-whatever-is-in-there.

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From February….

Before Selma had the Edmund Pettus bridge across the Alabama River, there was a bridge here. The bridge tender/toll collector and his family lived in this small house on the Selma end of the bridge. He was on duty 24/7, and had to manually/mechanically rotate the north span to let large vessels pass.

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If the segment of the great database that is the internet is correct, I learned today that edamame have much more (dietary) fiber than garbanzo beans. However, lentils and split peas have significantly more than edamame.

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