my cockadoodee atr
"And there it was: Gone!"
I ruptured my ATR playing softball. How very sad. Not just softball, but INDOOR softball, which isn’t even a SPORT but a game played in the United Kingdom that can best be described as the embarrassing offspring of the ill-considered union between a batting cage and a pinball machine. (See here for info or for a laugh.) And to top it all off, it was the LAST game of the LAST session before Spring Training and the outdoor season. (Although, ‘Spring’ is currently a misnomer in British English.)
My widget tells me it’s been 3 wks, 1 day since my ATR. If there was a widget (much like the NYR Marathon widget) tracking emotional progress from rupture to FWB, I would be somewhere on the path between ‘outright bitchy’ and ’still bitter’.
Maybe writing this blog will help alleviate some of the crushing boredom. Maybe my drivel might help someone else who has affronted the gods of walking-around-like-a-normal-person. Maybe it can serve as an outlet for my ire (because The DG certainly isn’t going to put up with it all for too much longer).
I shall update this and write something relevant to my injury and recovery in due course. Right now, it’s time for a bath. So, as baths are currently still relatively major projects with minor risks of drowning, I bid you adieu.
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mikejp88
March 31st, 2013 at 16:13
haha I enjoy this. I personally get really grumpy with injuries. It wears off after a few days or when they give me certain meds that make me loopy. We had surgery on the same day. I’m hoping to start PWB soon, like tuesday. You?
normofthenorth
March 31st, 2013 at 17:09
Hilarious, PO — sorry about your injury and rotten mood (& risk to your relationship with DG!), but it’s always great to get another blogger here who’s fun to read!
normofthenorth
March 31st, 2013 at 17:15
Did you get surgery or go non-op? Please continue — assuming you survive the bath!
poisonorange
April 1st, 2013 at 15:35
mikejp88 - Not sure when I start PWB. I’m assuming that I’m meant to be NWB until I get some kind of boot or cast-shoe. I’ve had so many different responses and it’s difficult to speak to anyone who might be able to give me any kind of definitive answer so I suppose I’ll know more on Friday when I have my next follow-up in the plaster room. From what I understand, it’s just going to be a new cast at a different angle, but I’ll be much happier if I at least get a shoe for the cast and can start putting a bit of weight on it.
normofthenorth - I managed not to drown in my 4 inch pool of water and I had surgery 4 days after the injury. Initially, they wanted to treat it conservatively (it is the NHS and surgery does cost a lot more) but I didn’t have to push much for the consultant to suggest surgery. I really just made a face.
Hillie
April 1st, 2013 at 18:23
I’m another NHS customer and was treated without surgery but under an accelerated protocol (same timeline as surgical would be at my clinic). By the way, I’d definitely push for a copy of their protocol when you visit them on Friday. Take a pen and paper in case they don’t have one.
So long as there were no physical complications necessitating surgery, and now that I have made a great recovery, and have read even more of the recent research, and Achillesblog too, I’d go for non-op again.
As I might have a choice though, should the unthinkable happen I’d really like to understand why you took a stand and persuaded your consultant to change his mind.
Best wishes for a complication-free recovery and return to softball.
jdrg
April 3rd, 2013 at 20:54
Thank you for yet another blog that made me laugh out loud while I sit around. I’ve had plenty of grouchy sad-sack moments and have likely annoyed everyone here on Achillesblog by posting cheerful top 10s of all the things I’m trying to be thankful for as I ‘keep it in perspective’ …but your little rants are much more entertaining. I love the emotional progress widget idea but trying to visualize it makes me dizzy. I hope you at least land in a ‘it could be worse’ zone soon. Cheers to a speedy heal/heel.
sandizona
April 4th, 2013 at 17:04
Hi from “one of the club members”……
I’m with you, kinda having a need for the emotional progress widget. Was pretty good, now kinda bithcy about it all.
Pity Party happenin at my house, in Arizona.
Any member welcome to attend.
Let me know if the sound of the frickin’ velcro is driving you crazy??? I’ve only been in my boot for 5 weeks now, actually can walk in it FWB, and drive. Its just the SOUND of velcro off and on everytime I have to air out my leg/foot…take clothes off or put clothes on…shower…. Come on peeps, you know what I’m bitchin’ about right??
I told my PT that yesterday, and she laughed saying she hears that a lot. : (
I know I’m healing, going to another post op appt. on 4/9 and hoping for a smaller boot if possible. Not sure I’m ready for two shoes just yet. I want to get lots more flexibility with PT and practice, as we are going on a family cruise May 11th. I do plan to take this big boot with the VELCRO straps with me. (fyi….YES, we’re on Carnivals’ Dream!!) Pray for us : )
normofthenorth
April 5th, 2013 at 04:09
Velcro actually makes some quieter stuff. I think it’s marketed as something like “No Stick Velcro” because it doesn’t stick to normal fuzzy fabrics. The difference is all on the stiffer “hook” part. The hooks are surrounded by some slightly taller (”thicker”) loops. So if that part brushes past something like fabric — or the loop part of the Velcro — it won’t stick. But if it’s pressed hard, the hooks and loops engage normally. It’s quieter, too, but probably also weaker.
In my other blog — valvereplacement.org — there are a bunch of people who are shocked by the ticking sound of their new mechanical heart valves. The sanest of them “reframes” and finds joy in the constant reminder that their operation was successful, that their heart is still beating, etc., etc. When those Velcro straps peel apart quietly, it means they’ve stopped working, and you NEED them to keep your foot securely immobilized and safe!
Also, if you haven’t discovered my fave Velcro boot-strap trick yet, it’s this: Whenever you want the straps open — like starting when you get out of the boot, and until you want to strap yourself back in — fold each strap back on itself, to keep it from sticking to. . . everything.
sandizona
April 5th, 2013 at 21:11
ahhhhh….folding the straps !! brilliant Norm!! Thanks !!
normofthenorth
April 5th, 2013 at 22:34
You’re welcome. Most skiers and snowboarders know that trick, pre-ATR!