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Friday, 09/12/2003 Entry: "Footnote"
Footnote
Wednesday I jotted this down:It's my week 4 podiatrist night (scuze, Walter Mercado is on their Telly. His prediction sequences are looking more slick, with a nice set and fancy multiple camera treatment. He looks like someone's grandmother. Yes, it's Latindom's lovable astrological queen...).This was a harrowing week. I suppose he meant to do me a favor by minimizing the cast to just above the heel in height and exposing the toes more (and not splinting the 2nd & 3rd after they got strained from the limitation. The result was sort of disastrous. The bandage bunched up beneath the arch and the edge under the toes slide back to be a bump beneath the region of the fracture. Argh! Several times a yanking session to pull the edge of the bandage forward while risk the back coming off the heel. We can't do this. Also this past week the hip has NOT been good.Already stiff from curtailing key exercises, new heights (or lows) were reached when I had to walk funny last week with plastic bags on my foot during commute to avoid rain. Since then, I've been screwed up and in pain with a mega-sciattica streak. It's not until well into the day that I can sit without pain. Monday my physical therapist gave me some funky sort of accupressure thing, then manatory muscle stim while positioned strategically with wedges of foam. I can't wait for this foot thing to be over. The other doc was there. I was due for another XRay; it didn't hurt this time to lightly step on it to walk to the funny box. My foot will have other issues to contend with once this bone thing is over; that post-rash is peeling on the top of my foot, and one toe beneath has developed athlete's foot (probably from being in plastic for an hour at a time on humid days). He stuck an adhesive thing to raise that area of the foot and prevent pressure on the fractious part, but it's possible some of the sticky went through the inner sock and is touching my sole. Not good since I have sensitive skin. I refuse band-aids after blood tests. Wow it's a different adventure this week, isn't it?
  
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