Mission accomplished. Ow.
Monday, February 6th, 2012 12:33 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
rolanniThis morning, I donned the little air bladder cast and drove myself to town to do errands. I hit Staples, and the post office, and Framemakers, and the grocery store. I am now exhausted, my foot aches and has swollen a bit to register its outrage. I’ll call that a balanced outcome, I guess.
What I dislike most is that the fall, and subsequent combined zoo and circus of the sprain, has made me very, very, very timid of ice and snow. Living in Maine as I do, this is not a good thing. But the reality of things is that I cannot afford to fall again, and knowing that makes me tense. And, yanno, more likely to fall.
Have to work on that, I guess.
In other news, “Intelligent Design,” and “The Space at Tinsori Light,” have been collected into eChapbook Legacy Systems: Adventures in the Liaden Universe® Number 19, now available from the Nook store and the Kindle store . A Smashthing edition has to wait (with The Day they brought the Bears to Belfast) until I have a chunk of time to do the conversion.
We will be adding some more splinters to Splinter Universe, so watch the skies.
And now? I’m hitting the sofa with a manuscript, a red pen, a glass of ice tea and some aspirin.
What’re you doing today?
Originally published at Sharon Lee, Writer. You can comment here or there.
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Date: 2012-02-06 05:44 pm (UTC)a little yardwork since its clear and dry, and perhaps sitting and watching the birds and the squirrels.
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Date: 2012-02-06 06:07 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-02-06 06:21 pm (UTC)Do the overshoes/strap ons with spikes work for you? I don't get out in icy conditions enough to have experience, but some of the snow people I know swear by them. Google for "ice shoes" seems to pull up a decent selection.
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Date: 2012-02-06 11:08 pm (UTC)http://www.icers.nb.ca/
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Date: 2012-02-06 11:16 pm (UTC)The one design drawback is that the *only* thing they're good for is walking on ice -- walking on wooden steps to get down to the ice field between the house and the car? A little tricky on spikes, and a wavery ankle.
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Date: 2012-02-06 06:52 pm (UTC)Nothing today, but Wed. - bank, taxes, dry cleaning, post office, groceries. Ya know, all the things that make life easier (?).
Lorna
icy conditions
Date: 2012-02-06 07:11 pm (UTC)Physical Therapy at 10:00 ; he really pushed hard today but it feels good to stretch my limits.
Radiation Therapy at 1:00 ; that was a real blast! (Pun totally intended)
Laughing Yoga at 3:00 ; I am sure that will be a gallon of giggles.
6:00 to 8:00 I will work on extending my qualifications with OSHA via the net. Somebody stop me!
Clearly, I AM having too much fun.
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Date: 2012-02-06 07:37 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-02-06 08:31 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-02-06 11:36 pm (UTC)Spent today applying massive amounts of heat and pain/anti-inflammatory to the stubborn strained muscles in my right arm, and carefully avoiding using same. There is improvement, but it does still hurt.
timid of ice and snow
Date: 2012-02-07 01:04 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-02-07 02:29 am (UTC)Sprains
Date: 2012-02-08 06:22 am (UTC)For now I have to stay completely off the knee. So I'm rolling around my house on my computer chair. Sprains unfortunately heal very slowly.
Also if you go to a web site www.nikken.com for Nikken - A multilevel marketing company perhaps they can put you in touch with one of their distributors. They have the most marvelous pain relieving cream. It's called CM Complex Cream. I've tried all the others, the ones from the store and another one and the CM Cream is fantastic. Expensive but worth it.
Luckily for me, as I have to walk on with a crutch there's been very little snow and ice here this winter.
Good luck.
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Date: 2012-02-08 11:38 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-02-08 01:17 pm (UTC)