Daily Rituals

My broken and healing foot, what it can and cannot do, defines my life for now.  Get up.  Strap on the boot.  Where are the crutches?  Ok.  Slow.  Slooowly maneuver down the stairs.

It takes multiple umpty many steps to do what was once automatic and easy and most of all, a lot faster (all the time reminding myself :  It could have been worse. And many others do have it it worse.).

And honestly, now that I can hump around at home without a crutch in my Storm Rangers Boot, I have so many more options!  Carry a cup of coffee to the table!  Clean up a bit!  Sort of make the bed!

But what has not changed is -- ta da -- thrombosis prevention.  Huh?  That began as soon as they put on the first cast and continues every day.  A shot!  Not really fun.

And I need alcohol of the "rubbing" variety to swab the skin.  It is not on the shelves at the store.  You have to go to the pharmacy to get  it and tell them what you want it for and then they mix it up for you - by the tablespoonful it seems!

So every night after dinner, I go and open the little bottle of alcohol, rub my tummy and stab myself so I won't get clots.

Then I climb the stairs and unstrap the boot. And it starts all over again.

Ow.
or: 
I told you so!!

We do this, don't we?  "Don't tell me what to do.  I know what I'm doing."

Yes, we do say that and No, I don't always know what I'm doing.  Just like little kids, I can can be stubborn and willful.

We wanted to use some of the left-over frozen turkey for our dinner, but not all of it that was in the frozen clump.  Werner says, Don't put your hand behind the knife!  I said, I know what I'm doing!

Ooops.

A slip of the knife (which of course he keeps so sharp!) and I have a really nice gouge in the finger.  I resist going to the doctor, but this was a necessary trip. Five stitches later my hand looks like this!

So, Werner gets to say  "I told you so!!!" (I gave him permisssion)  and I get to say:  "Sorry."
It'll be better soon. 

Medical Matters

Friday night we had a special meal since we won't have another "regular" meal for three days. It was really pretty, and tasty besides.

Poached Salmon on Green Sauce with
Boiled Potatoes and Fresh Flower Petals


Of course there were multiple modifications to the original recipe. I didn't have crème fraiche so I substituted yogurt and whipped cream, added some mayonnaise and mustard and my herbs were from the garden so not exactly what was called for but wonderful anyway (basil, lemon balm, sage, chives, oregano, lots of parsley, thyme). Put in the food processor till it's green and finely chopped. Yum. It was good on the potatoes, too. On the side we had a salad of zucchini and yellow squash ribbons on arugla with fried feta.

The flower petals were for decoration, but they are edible, too - daisy, geranium and lavender along with some plain herbs. Pretty.

So, the reason for the meal was that Monday and Tuesday, Werner and I are scheduled for colonoscopies, just because it's past time to do it. Of course there are lots of reasons people put off this procedure, all of them hilariously described by Dave Barry in this column.

I'll let you know if all he says is true, but I don't think he's making it up.