Indians with ATR’s: Squat toilets dangerous
Well, it takes an disability-based websurfer to find these things! In India, most ATR's are caused not by sports but by slipping off squat toilets, or as they call them, "Indian-style toilets"....
View ArticleGo to two-shoes at 5 weeks post-op?
Yesterday was my second post-op appt, after 2 weeks in the splint and 3 in a cast. First came the young resident ortho, who said that it was time to go to the second cast. I asked, "Will I ever be...
View ArticleTo the Redwoods; Katey Sagal on the bustour
The niece and nephew are still in town, 4.8 and 11 respectively, in desperate need of entertainment. Prior to my ATR, their Aunt Mary was their main transport around and a big chunck of their...
View ArticleGoody! Two-shoes - but with crutches.
I had just been getting used to 3.5 weeks of a FWB walking cast. No driving or anything, but going places, including the library and shops, clumping around with no crutches, even in the redwoods with...
View ArticleNo pain, big gain: agoraphobia, fear of rerupture
The tour business is in full swing, and I can work as a lecturer ("step-on" jobs) as well as a busdriver. However, when colleagues call me with last-minute city or wine tours, I realize that I would...
View Article8 weeks post-op: released by doc! No PT!
My final post-op came at 8 weeks, after 2 weeks of walking in two-shoes, heel lifts and crutches. My doctor felt that I could be released to slowly walk properly on my own, that I could be trusted to...
View ArticleWhy do none of us name our ortho docs?
I am curious to know if we are all under some strange compunction not to name our doctors. I know that I hesitated myself at first, and have refrained from it throughout my postings. Is there some...
View ArticleToe-writing: learn shorthand!
One night, watching TV and "spelling the alphabet" with my toe, it dawned on me that the jolting between the strokes of an A or E was mildly annoying. Suddenly, a stroke of genius! My old Gregg...
View Article12 Weeks - PT says I have flat feet?
A whole tourist summer passed me by as I sat thinking, reading, blogging, DVD'ing, etc. With a right ATR, I was afraid to risk driving, and spent a lot of time at home, often considering both of my...
View ArticleOne careful year later…
It was a Friday, June 10th, at midnight, alone in a big old hillside house, that the shotgun pop changed my active life. Dancing to Harry Belafonte, the noise made me suspect I'd broken a wooden...
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