New Cast in PINK
Well, I’m now casted in hot pink at the request of my daughter and the incision looked ok to my surprise. Wish I could post pix nothing I try works so oh well. I have been really good at keeping my foot up which has helped keep the swelling down and even the Nurse and PA were surprised, so good deal!!! They didn’t move my foot to a different angle because there were no Dr. orders in my file so I image that will be next visit when I see the Dr. and I’m not looking forward to that.
When they removed my splint from surgery, I was shocked at how much muscle mass was already gone and I know it take a long time to build back. The other thing I noticed is that I could hardly move my foot. I tried to pull it up without touching it and it just didn’t want to go but what little movement I had hurt like crazy so I could be managing a fine line of actual pain vs mental pain. My strength is just not there in that leg either, I found myself shaking and starting to get sick when I tried to move it so I just laid down and waited for them to direct me to the casting room.
I remember years ago…when I had a cast it was the wrap, water and the plaster that got on everything and it was quite a process. I knew things had changed but how they do casts now is just too easy. Pick you color wrap and bring on the water…..oh yeah, and try to sit still and hold your leg this way or that way!!!! That was the hard part for me was keeping my leg in a certain position long enough for them to cast me. Again the no strength thing was in my way!!! I had a plethera of colors to chose from and my daughter told me to pick Pink or Green so since Pink was her first choice, I’m now in pink. Guess my son can pick next time if he really want too! I go back in to see the Dr. in 10 days…..new cast and new foot position I’m sure.
Sleeping with the full cast is a little different, I’m not sure why but it took me a while to find the right position or maybe I didn’t I just fell alseep out of exhaustion. Non the less, I’m adjusting to the new pink leg…..if I can only find some bling!!!!
This seems to work for most folks:
This is probably not the approved official way to do it, but it’s how I’ve been putting pictures into my blog…
1) Upload the image to you digital library. You can reformat images with html tagging, but it’s actually just easier to format the image (mostly size it) before you upload it. Images 400 pixels wide seem to fit pretty well in the format of this blog.
2) Go to your media library, and “view” the picture you want to use. Click the picture itself- so that you’re looking *only* at the picture. The address bar of your browser should be the address of the picture (probably ending in .jpg).
3) Copy that address. It is the address of the picture you want to include in a post. You can actually do this with the address of any picture on the web.
4) Go to the post you want to put the picture in. Edit it. Choose “html” editing (not visual).
5) Click the “img” tab. This will prompt you for the address of a picture. Paste in the address of the image you’re trying to include. It will prompt you for alternate text- this is optional. I usually ignore it.
That should do it. You can go back to the visual tab to format and tweak the position of the image.
Comment by ryanb — June 26, 2012 @ 4:18 pm
Congrats on the progress!! I have been having issues when trying to post pics from a Mac.. just won’t work at all. On my PC at work mozilla firefox was the only thing that has worked consistently i posting pics to this site. Good luck!
Comment by onhiatus — June 27, 2012 @ 2:14 pm