May 26, 2006
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I'm gradually losing the boot! Do you see what I'm dealing with here! Especially now that it is getting warmer here!
The past two days I've just been using a heavy compression stocking that goes to my knee to give me support. It felt so good to put on my stockings (even tried my fishnets) to work with skirts! OMG, it was great! Plus I'm even able to lay my foot flat on the floor and attempt a "walk" more and more as the days go by (with the walker of course). I'm hoping by my next doctor appointment that I'll be walking (or limping ... or whatever).
Going through this I've experienced some good things and some bad. Good stuff like people being kind enough to open doors or get out of my way. Bad things like people getting in my way and not paying attention where they're going. Hello! Woman with a walker (sometimes wheelchair) coming through!
And at times my co-workers irk me. Sure, the kidding around about racing each other down the hallway was funny (like a month ago), but now they're just getting annoying. Telling me I'm milking it!!! Seriously, if I could walk I would, and give them a swift kick in the ass! Do they think I enjoy having to use a walker every moment I am up and about? That it is great to be driven around everywhere and not able to go out on my own whim?
Let me just say for those folks uninitiated in this type of thing that a broken leg takes at the most a year or two to heal. There is a lot of pain involved, and just the fact that your quality of life is so dramatically reduced yields a lot of depression. A lot. The first month or so I would cry at night ... because of the pain ... because of the way my leg looked ... and because my world was turned upside down.
It's alright to kid around and bring people's spirits up. Make them smile and laugh. But it is another thing to accuse them of milking it, of taking advantage of people's kindess, or even asking why is it taking so long to get back into the swing things.
Slowly ... slowly ... things are getting better as the days go by. And, it is funny how this has showed me so many things that I was blind to before, that I refused to see.
Comments (6)
they just want you to be better and you are getting there...
*hey*
i'm so glad to see another update! i'm so glad to hear you're doing better as the days are going by and you're starting to walk again! i'm glad that the depression isn't so overwhelming anymore. keep on keeping on and you'll continue to get better! hopefully you'll be online chatting again soon too! ((hugs))
Do you have a cane or something you can swing at these colleagues? You know that tiny particles of bone end up in your bloodstream after a break, and can cause 'alternative behavior' in some people. You can always say you suffered temporary insanity and just beat the crap out of your coworkers!
LOL Az has a point, Glad to hear your recovering and ignore the jerks...I think they are placed in life for one reason. To annoy the living fuck out of us
hey, don't lose that boot completely. That thing will get you in the front of the line at the airport, at Six Flags, it will get you a seat of a full train/bus. That boot, may come in handy quite often. Keep in in your trunk for emergencies!!!
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