Archives #040
Friday
– photo by Mitch Waxman
It’s been a wild 1,729 hours, I’ll offer, between the day I shattered my ankle and this post. People look at me cross eyed when I discuss events in terms of hours or days rather than weeks/months/years, but getting granular with such things speaks better to the experience of medical drama – in my opinion. Roughly 1,600 of those hours involved constant and inescapable pain, the kind that wakes you out of a dead sleep.
2010’s ‘Tales of Calvary 6’ tells the story of one of First Calvary Cemetery’s permanent residents – the Newsboy Governor Al Smith.
– photo by Mitch Waxman
I’ve been walking around the house just wearing shoes for a couple of hours a day, on medical advice I’d mention, but when I’m out in the world the giant Frankenstein like walking boot is affixed to the injured limb. By ‘out in the world,’ I mainly mean driving back and forth to my weekly triad of physical therapy appointments. I’ve also been assigned ‘homework’ for the ankle, a three times a day series of stretching moves. It seems that all of the discrete little rubber bands which compose the ligament and tendon department are the focus of this action. The process is working, as I’ve had a comparatively pain free couple of weeks, but it still hurts – not gonna lie.
2016 saw ‘engulfed in’ published, with a progress report on the real estate industrial complex’s build out in Queens Plaza. Stealing the sky, indeed.
– photo by Mitch Waxman
It’s looking like the end of this journey is going to be just another starting line, this one will start at the end of the year as I try to resume my normal activities. Not going to lie, it’s scary thinking about resuming even my short walks. Might have to get a bike.
These archive posts are reaching into Newtown Pentacle’s backups, and are pulling posts that went public on this date, in their respective years, going back to 2009. This practice will continue until I’m back on both feet full time, and new photos and stories can be gathered. For anyone who hasn’t heard the news, I broke my left ankle at the end of September.
Back next week.
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