…all about achilles, when i’m healed i’m gonna travel to the river where achiles was dipped and dive in…

really dont trust doctors…

told 6 weeks, 10 weeks, surgery, not surgery, walk, dont walk, walk…they even wanted to put me in a cast from foot to thigh… thigh length cast..mmm sexy.

pfffffff

all in spanish, not greek; which seems a shame seeing as we’re dealing with both achilles and hypocrates

i want one of these babies…

http://www.bledsoebrace.com/PRODUCTS/achilles.asp#compare

i reckon that if i dont get surgery in the next seven days i’m gonna keep this heavy one for 6 weeks then go but me a bledsoe..

i just dont trust the surgeons here… its national health.. their gonna stitch me up with the cheapest option…

once i broke my jaw (motorbike accident.. i advise you all to wear a full face helmet).. the NHS brutalised me.. they screwed it back together ok,

BUT

wired my jaw so badly that it was slicing my gums so viciously that i was in constant pain..passing out more than once.

SO

i took a pair of pliers some painkilers and cut that f**ckin wire out of my mouth, fainting twice on the bathroom floor with a basin full of blood…it worked.. i just didnt speak for a week and ate through a straw..as instructed.

AND

squeemish? yep i squeemed…quietly without opening my jaw.

healed just fine…

honeshtly…

no really it did…

Still have to work, this is when you find out who your friends are… we drive to the second shop in sitges to pick up some stock and drive it back to Barcelona… it takes me the whole round trip to work out the most comfortable position for my leg…wedged between the central column and the piles of crapola in the foot well.

My beautiful freind marianne has been so helpful, went shopping for me, bought me crutches, got my prescription drugs, drove me to sitges…while i drive her insane… can you get me some fags? i cant carry my coffee..could you bring it over here?  can you pick those keys up off the floor?

I dont want to see anyone today. I dont want them to see me… the biggest blow is to my vanity.