Musings

No connection between a pumpkin stem and my news-of-the-day…except perhaps if you consider that pumpkins keep pretty well, and this one probably was picked weeks ago…

My news is that I had my first (official) PT #physicaltherapy appointment. Mike said my foot looked pretty good for the surgery I had, and that this Lisfranc injury is a tough one to come back from—possible, but slow. Which I knew.

The exercises he gave me for “homework” focus on flexibility in the forefoot (stretching arch) and toes, plus a bit more rotation in the ankle…. Can do! I do at least three sets per day, as what works is slow and steady. Avoid pain. Gentle pressure is the best, then rest, then repeat.

Mike also told me to use the crutches for support while I kinda-walk wearing The Boot. This works pretty darned well, which tickles me. It is much easier than using the crutches and keeping the damaged foot held high.

The possible connection is that my foot has staying power, too! I know: lame! hahahahaha Okay, skip the pumpkin and know that the PT situation is a…step forward.

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After my exuberant Thursday, I’ve been coasting, to recover energy for a nice outing tomorrow, when the high temps are predicted to reach only 74°F here in ATL, so we’re going to venture out…somewhere. I can report that I stood a bit, in The Boot, in between two chairs so I could hold onto the backs. I didn’t really try to walk…too scary!…don’t feel steady enough.

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Errand day! I haven’t participated in errands, other than medical ones, since mid-July. Today I did!

And I’m also going to Book Club tonight! Busy day! Two out-of-the-house adventures! [I’d better go get ready!]

Right at home, I stopped Steed to photograph this lovely white ginger blossom cluster. Thanks for the flowers, Diane!

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Against the odds, I came across this autumn “broccoli forest”…in WashDC. There can’t have been a long time window for this satellite pass.

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I awakened early the other morning and thought, gee, it’s darker than in summer at this wee hour. Then I thought, ah, the season is turning. And we have arrived in autumn.

These are distortions to tree-cover in the 3D presentation of satellite photos by GooMaps. Makes the trees look like distorted broccoli. [No cookbook.]

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I’m a bit late/short in giving summer flowers their due.

On the other hand, I worked on a new trick today…I gently move the toes toward the knee, a simple ankle roll that I couldn’t do in the cast. Yeah, it doesn’t sound like much does it….

That’s the gargantuan (wait for it) ™pneumatic walking brace there in the background, with many of its velcroized flaps open, making it look even more massive than it is.

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Desiccating rose. And the TX/LA Gulf Coast area is…flooding.

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Photo from last December.

Without context, this looks like it could be a satellite photo of a bleak landscape with a fault or chasm bisecting it.

Truth is that it’s a not-new chainsaw cut of a redwood, with some fungi or sap or something making the elevated, gnarly formations.

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A rose by any other name…is ever-lovely.

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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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