It's not mangy under there, though I was a little concerned... It was itching like MAD for a long time.
But GOOD NEWS for me. My cast is off! Yaaaay! As of today, I have a freakishly swollen but uncasted foot that can bear 25% of my body weight (which is more than I'd like it to be, of course...). Woohoo! I asked how I was supposed to judge what 25% felt like. "A scale." What, like a scale of 0-100%? (which helps me not at all) "Noooo... a scale. A bathroom scale. Put your foot on it and press down till it hits the magic number." Ahhhhhh. Genius!
As it turns out, 25% is some serious weight to bear. I did just that as soon as I got home, and found that my foot doesn't really work yet, so pressing down X pounds was rather uncomfortable. Plus, there's a weird almost-shin-splinty pain running from the top of mid-foot halfway up my calf. I keep flexing and pointing and rotating, hoping it eventually clears up. As for muscle tone? grumble grumbe grumble - it took me 5 years of fencing to develop legs of steel, and now I have one leg of steel and one leg of raw, floppy meat. I'm really hoping this isn't lost muscle mass, but muscles that need to remember how to flex.
Funny moment - as soon as the PA finished sawing the cast off of me and stepped out to talk with the doctor, I whipped out my SO's electric razor and hacked as much of the 2-week-old growth as I could before she returned. Bzzzzzzzzz. Both she and the doctor were very amused. They said that while most of their patients complain about how the itching bothers them possibly more than the pain itself, no one had ever thought to bring a razor into the office and do it right then and there. Yep - trust me to always be prepared.
Maybe by the week after next (after summer NAC), I'll be able to ref a little at the club without killing myself. I'll be mostly healed by then.
06-26-2008 10:08 PM 
It was itching like MAD for a long time.