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<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Yesterday I said that if today the foot doctor didn\u2019t release me from this boot, I\u2019d indulge in today\u2019s National Cognac Day and National Donut Day to drown my sorrows. Well, she didn\u2019t release me from the boot, and after a couple of hours with it off and just wearing the splint (while bike riding and stopping by the store and going to my sister\u2019s house to water the plants while she\u2019s away), when I got home, I couldn\u2019t wait to put the boot back on again. I felt safer in it. Yesterday putting the boot back on made me feel like a bird having to go back in my cage; today it felt like a helpless babe seeking the comfort of the womb again. What a difference a day makes, eh.<\/p>\n
Funnily enough, it\u2019s also National Shopping Cart Day, and I made use of one when I stopped by Safeway on my bike to buy a couple of things. I ended up having to lean on it to take the weight off. Today for some reason my ankle has started hurting\u2014after three weeks of not being in much pain at all. Even still, it\u2019s not pain so much as my ankle saying, \u201cHey, we got healing going on down here! Don\u2019t push it!\u201d<\/p>\n
Not only have I had to bail on a backpacking trip (although that was because I feared for my hip giving out and THEN I twisted my ankle), but I\u2019m also having to bail on a hike tomorrow along the Potomac River with the same group that sponsored the backpack trip. I toyed with going anyway, but in the end, my Higher Caretaker Self prevailed. Since Hubby and I are going to the Eastern Shore of the Chesapeake Bay in July for a week, I want to be out of this boot by then, so I will continue to be medically compliant.<\/p>\n
On a brighter note, I talked with Mamacita today, whose mood has been so pleasant (those drugs are really doing wonders). We\u2019re all of us relieved she\u2019s found relief and is settling in. And the tiler finished the shower upstairs, delivering us from the 1990s decor at last. On Monday they install the faucet, grab bars, fan and light, and the fancy bidet toilet seat, just in time for our upstairs tenant to return. I will definitely be reporting on the wash and dry bidet with heated seat.<\/p>\n
This evening we hung out at the puzzle table and listened to creepy radio plays. My current endeavor is a little more challenging than the previous puzzle, with all the white pieces. Hubby was reading about all the benefits of doing puzzles, so here\u2019s to quality family time and mapping new and better neural pathways in the brain, and making me smarter and better able to think critically.<\/p>\n