Category Archives: Life

Maybe The Foot Formerly Known as Broken Needed Benign Neglect?

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I could spend a ton of time boring you with stories of phone tag with the doctor’s office, but I’ll cut it short and sweet. There was a brief game of phone tag trying to get some more details and then silence on the other end. I don’t know whether I was forgotten about or ignored, but neither is particularly satisfying. Rather than obsessing over that issue, some good news. With great irony, the darn thing is beginning to feel better. I had a few days in a row without … Continue reading →

Anticlimactic Answer is Anticlimactic

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It took almost a week to find out about my foot. Last Wednesday I had more x-rays and a test to check on the possibility of gout to explain why I still have a good deal of soreness nearly three months after breaking my foot. Before I get into specifics, I have to say I’m very much someone who likes my expectations to be clear. If you tell me to expect X on Y day. I really want X on Y day. If you tell me it’ll be today and … Continue reading →

Tick Tock – Wait

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I finally had to bite the bullet and get my foot looked at today. I’ve made a lot of progress since I took off the training wheels, but it’s been two and a half months since I broke it and although I’m hardly in grinding pain, my toe still is sore like I stubbed it a few days ago. I thought last week I might have jumped a hurdle when my toe popped for the first time since the fall. And it does feel like I lost some tension for … Continue reading →

Recuperation Is Not Fast

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A full day without the buddy tape around my big toe and it’s nearest neighbor. It’s been interesting. After six weeks of being taped and 99% of that time in a recovery shoe on top of it, the first sensation was that it felt incredibly odd to have air touching it. In fact, the first time I felt a draft on my foot it and was positively shocking! What’s that?? My first observations was that my foot didn’t fall apart without the tape to hold it together. Whew! And the … Continue reading →

Time Flies With A Broken Toe

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Wow, I can’t believe that tonight marks six weeks since I was sitting in the Emergency Room waiting to find out the status of my poor toe. In some ways, I feel every minute of those six weeks. I watched the leaves change through the windows, and I’ve barely wandered past the steps for ages. And when I think back to hobbling up the stairs with a severely sprained ankle several years ago, I’m suddenly so happy to be living in a one story house this time. Getting around was … Continue reading →

My Toe Shouldn’t Point That Way

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In the grand scheme of things it could have been far worse, but it’s still not a banner day. I’ve been working on prepping and painting my room. It is well due, but I guess now it will be a December task. I was on the second step of the a small step stool. I stepped back aiming for the first step and totally missed. Splat, wiped out on the floor. When I first dusted myself off, I must have been in a vague state of shock because I didn’t … Continue reading →

Goodbye Aunt Lois

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We found out Sunday that the last of my Grandmother’s siblings had passed away. My grandmother, the oldest of ten children, was 25 years older than her baby sister Lois. In fact, Granny got married later the same year Aunt Lois was born. They were still close, though. Not to minimize anyone’s grief as we don’t all show it the same way, but of the people I remember at my grandmother’s funeral, it was Aunt Lois whose grief was most tangible to me. As much as Aunt Lois reminded me … Continue reading →

Getting The Red Out

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It’s fun when something amusing happens in the mist of misery! Okay, I exagerrate, but it’s allergy season and medicine puts a dent in it but at the peak of whatever pollens are hitting me, it’s never a complete reversal of the symptoms. This week has been particularly rough on the eyes which to me is far more miserable than clogged nasal passages. Trying to do anything with my photos with watery eyes is just an exercise in frustration. This leads to a small but necessary sidebar. Normally my allergies … Continue reading →

Goodbye Mrs. Linda Beckum

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I was shell-shocked today to discover that one of my favorite teachers from High School, Mrs. Linda Beckum, passed away from cancer. Speechless because I had no idea, and because I suddenly realized that I had let more than a decade pass since I last saw her. Granted, that’s not uncommon, particularly when you spent most of those years living hours away from where you were raised. I went to a relatively small school system and was very lucky that across the years in the Macon County school system, good … Continue reading →

The Perfect Social Network

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Google’s new G+ has been making a lot of waves the last few weeks and I’m good with competition and new ideas, but I’m frankly on Social Network overload at this point, how about you? I won’t even list how many I’ve been part of in the past, but right now I have my toe in Facebook (with both a personal and business account), Twitter, and now G+ as well. And I don’t see how anyone who isn’t super-human can be on multiple networks and still actually take part rather … Continue reading →