As my husband has generously pointed out, the paperwork sent home with me the other day from the orthopedic visit specifies a lateral malleolus fracture. The x-ray report in my GHC inbox states: 1. OBLIQUE NONDISPLACED FRACTURE OF THE DISTAL FIBULA. 2. OSTEOCHONDRAL FRACTURE OF THE LATERAL TALAR DOME. I have been doing some time-tripping. […]
Okay, okay, so it really is broken. The fibula has a nice diagonal crack in it, and the talus is probably broken, too. (Treatment is the same, no worries the PA said.) I’m not worried, I just don’t want to wear this dang boot 24/7. I don’t want to keep all weight off the ankle […]
I have been thinking of something my friend Madelon Bolling once shared with me, I think way back in my dissertation days at the UW: “Try to spend a little time every day imagining the unimaginable.” I want to imagine taking a trip to the British Isles (including Ireland, where my friend Cherie Langlois snapped […]
A picture of my mother, pregnant with me (seated, just left of center and staring straight into the camera), with 8 of her 10 sisters and a sister-in-law. (Oh, wait — 7 sisters and one niece.) I don’t know where my older brother is (napping?) but he would be very close in age to the […]