And that was the weekend …

Well the cast came off and stayed off on Friday. The doctor said he was very pleased with how my leg was (despite me not really being able to put any weight on my foot, and my foot and ankle looking rather swollen) and that it should gradually get better. So that was a great [...]

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In praise of mobility aids

Yesterday’s experiment was would I cope with crutches around the workplace. The answer to that was a resounding NO. After nearly slipping over coming in the back door of the library on the lino there, to arriving at the door to our office in a state of exhaustion, to being rescued by a colleague on my [...]

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No patience for anything today

It appears I am not the only librarian with a dodgy achilles. While surfing the web to see if I was the only person alive to have problems with crutches I discovered that none other than Moata Tamaira of Blog Idle  fame had actually ruptured her achilles earlier this year. I can’t seem to follow [...]

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My left foot….

… is currently in a cast (technically a “back slab” cast I believe) and I have crutches to hobble around on Earlier in the week I missed a step going down the stairs and my body weight crashed down on my left foot – I swear I could feel every fibre in my achilles tendon [...]

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