It's International Talk Like a Pirate Day! Arrrrrr!
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Thank you all for the outpouring of sympathetic "ouch!"-es in the comments! It made checking my email totally pain-free :-)
The official update:
Ankle = broken in two places. One significant break near the bottom of the skinnier shin bone, one fleck fracture at the bottom of the other, bigger bone. Surgery scheduled for next Friday, 9/26, to allow for swelling to go away. Then a cast and crutches for 6 weeks, no weight on that foot; then 6 weeks in a walking(?) cast, followed by lots of physical therapy.
So much for our 99% certainty that the ankle was not broken. In our defense, neither did anyone else at the clinic until the doc looked at the x-ray.
Insurance issues dictated that the surgery, etc., be done at Fairview Lakes Hospital in Wyoming, MN (45-60 minutes away) instead of St. Croix Falls Regional Medical Center (20-30 minutes away). The upside is that the ortho surgeon at Fairview may very well be a better doc for my situation; he did an advanced surgical residency at Yale and his speciality is rebuilding ankles :-)
For now, and until next Friday, I have an enormous, soft-ish, slightly compressive dressing on that foot and ankle and shin to help control swelling. I am instructed to spend 110% of my time with the foot elevated, preferably above the level of my heart. (For the record, this is exactly what Cathy-Cate of Hither & Yarn recommended; anyone with a medical issue is hereby directed to her blog.) I have a wheelchair and 2 different walkers, plus crutches borrowed from a neighbor who broke her ankle -- in a much worse way -- a few years ago. As ankle fractures go, mine is just average, not spectacular. (yay)
Plus, after visiting the various doctors, I now have my very own vat of Vicodin :-)
I'm trying to figure out how to work this broken ankle thing into a contest. Stay tuned...
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From today's email (and which I already forwarded to many of you):
Please pass around to everyone you know. Maybe something good can come from this nightmare of Sarah Palin’s VP nomination!
For $10, or even $5...it doesn't have to be a big donation.
Instead of (in addition to?) us all sending around more emails about how horrible Sarah Palin is, let's all make a donation to Planned Parenthood in Sarah Palin's name.
And here's the good part: when you make a donation to Planned Parenthood in her name, they'll send her a card telling her that the donation has been made in her honor.
Make sure you use that link above or choose the pulldown of Honorary or Memorial Donations, not the regular Donate Online link.
Here is the link to the Planned Parenthood website:
You'll need to fill in the address to let them know where to send the "In Sarah Palin's honor" card. The address for the McCain campaign headquarters is:
McCain for President
1235 S. Clark Street
1st Floor
Arlington VA 22202
