Caught In The Whirlwind
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Lots Of Foot Related Stuff
Sep 9th 2009
I’ve noticed I’ve started to get a bit lax about updating around here…again. Dah. Hopefully I can pick it up a little bit. Haven’t been in much of a mood for writing recently.
I went back to the doctor for my followup appointment for my foot. It consisted of me waiting for an hour while they tried to get my X-rays from the other office faxed over so they could look at them where I was. Now, in this day and age of computers and networks, it strikes me as strange that two doctors offices in the same medical group can’t just walk over to a computer and pull up a digital copy of the x-rays for view. I mean, I know when I looked at them a couple weeks ago it was on a computer. So they are in some sort of digital form. Why do they need to FAX them over?? Anyway, I ended up going back to work and then returned back to the office once they got the x-rays.
They ended up doing another set of x-rays just to see if it was healing. I should know more today about that. My doctor said that as long as it felt like it was still healing, I don’t need to go to the podiatrist. But if it’s still bugging me in a couple weeks that’s something that I’ll probably end up doing. It’s healing decently well, but it’s still bugging me. Especially my big toe.
But today I wore my real shoes to work for the first time in 2-3 weeks. Which made me realize that I really need a new pair of shoes. Which then made me realize I would have to go shoe shopping. I’m a size 13 wide which is not very common. You can find them here and there in a store, but it’s a crapshoot if it’s going to be a shoe I want since I’m pretty picky about shoes for work. A lot of the styles look stupid to me and/or aren’t comfortable.
I failed on my work shoe quest but I did pick up a pair of sneakers. My current ones were starting to dig into the back of my heel I noticed. It was about time for a new pair. Still looking for work shoes though. I wish my sneakers and work shoes weren’t on the same replacement cycle…
I Hate Computers Sometimes
Aug 25th 2009
I’ve been plagued with technical issues today…
Well, it all started last night when I realized that…ok, hang on a sec, I need to explain my computing setup here for this to make sense. My main machine is my MacBook Pro, 3 years old. It’s got a 80GB hard drive in it. My music collection is about 25GB large, and my tv shows and podcasts expand that outward to 60GB. Which leaves no room for…well…anything else. So when I switched to using my MBP as my main machine, I got myself an external drive to house all of my media files and such. It’s worked pretty well, up until last night.
Last night I went to sync my iPod and I noticed that as soon as I plugged the drive into the computer, OS X froze. It seemed to do that whenever I plugged the external drive in. I thought something was screwed up in OS X and I’d have to reinstall (and then re-install again on friday when snow leopard arrived). But as it turns out the filesystem on the drive got corrupted somehow.
I managed to get OS X to mount the drive in read only mode so I could get stuff off of it. Which lead me to another problem…where am I going to put this stuff if it won’t fit on my hard drive? I suddenly remembered I have an 80GB iPod hanging around…and that can be used as an external drive too. So right now I’m copying all my music, video and large downloaded files over to my old iPod. It’s painfully slow, but it’s better than nothing.
Next up I’ll reformat the drive and put everything back. And now I’ll heed the warnings about ejecting a drive before unplugging it…
It’s been a rough day all around really. I realized today that I probably won’t be able to go to the state fair like I wanted to. Stupid broken foot. It’s not healing as fast as I would like and it looks like I’ll have to bow out of the trip and let my friends go on their own. Too much walking and I didn’t want to stress it that much unless things got back to normal. My mom said she’d go with me next week (she enjoys the fair a lot) if my foot allows so hopefully that works out. I really wanted to go this year.
Resting
Aug 21st 2009
The last couple days haven’t been terribly eventful. I’ve basically been taking it easy so my foot can work on getting healed up, hopefully in time to do some walking around the state fair on Friday. It’s going to be cutting it close, but…we’ll see. It’s about the same as it has been. Not painful unless I’m walking on it. I’m also able to move my toes much more than when I had initially injured it, so that’s some progress. Not related to the fracture, I would imagine…probably some of the other damage that’s been healing up.
I also have an update on Fish. After I changed his water he seems to be happier. He’s spending more time swimming around and being happy and less sulking at the bottom. I’m trying to keep an eye on him though, just in case he’s really sick.
Lets see here…what else is going on… My roommates bought season 3 of Dexter, the Showtime series about everybody’s favorite serial killer. If you haven’t had a chance to see this show I would highly recommend giving it a try. Seasons 1 and 2 are availible on Netflix Instant Watch if you have that option.
And finally, it’s less than a week until I start school again. It still doesn’t feel like it’s something I’m really going to be doing. It feels like it’s much further away than next week.
Foot Update
Aug 18th 2009
Well, I picked the one day to get injured where my doctors office didn’t have a working x-ray machine, so I had to go over to Urgent Care. After much waiting around it was determined that I might have a small fracture in my foot. The X-Ray wasn’t exactly clear, but there was a little “anomaly” as they called it that could be a fracture, so they’re treating it as such.
I got one of those special shoe type things that limits my foot motion when I walk. I was also outfit with crutches which I’m not sure how much use they’ll get. I’m so totally not coordinated enough to use these things. But I figure I can at least use one of them to help me keep some of my weight off of it when I’m walking.
I had planned on going to the State Fair at the end of next week, but this throws those plans into jeopardy… Hopefully I’ll be feeling better by then but I don’t want to push it.
Bad News Day
Aug 18th 2009
Bunch of ungood stuff happened last night.
First of all, my Betta, Fish has been looking a little lethargic lately. He’s been hanging out at the bottom of the tank and not moving at all except for eating.
I shined a flashlight on him and I think I see the beginnings of an infection of Velvet. I changed his water last night and I’m planning to see how he reacts to that before I decide to do anything to him more drastic than that.
Which leads me to bad thing number 2. I was finishing up changing his water when I missed the last step on the stairs in our apartment and ended up falling. My right foot was pointed down towards the ground and I landed on it with pretty much my entire body weight, bending my toes backwards in directions which toes should never bend.
It hurts a lot and I can’t really put much weight on it. I can still move my toes so I don’t believe anything is broken, but I’m going to try to get in to see my doctor about it today in case I did something serious to it.
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