After The Storm 2

OUCH!  View at my marina

After the Storm

Coastal CT got hit pretty hard.  Been without power now for 24 hours and just borrowed a friend's generator who still has power.  Thankfully, fridge and freezer contents still cold - due to putting ice bags in yesterday.  They say we could have no power for 10 days!   The boat is already back in the water and thankfully I am told no damage to her - will check tomorrow.  Our house has no damage, but the neighborhood is full of fallen trees and debris.  Working remote thru wireless card Internet access.

Before the storm my foot really started to swell - Wow!  Low pressure systems can really have an effect on the body!

Prepping For Hurricane Irene

As Jimmy Buffett sings - "Trying to reason with hurricane season".  Looks like the NE is in for a direct hit - Cat 1 or Cat 2.  Pulling the boat onto land and prepping the back yard.

Root Canal

One of these days I hope to catch a break!  Saturday morning I started to feel some pain in one of my teeth.  By Saturday night I was popping the Advil.  By Sunday night the pain was so intense that I tried the Vikodin left over from my first week of post-op.  By Monday am the Vikodin was not even working.  I went to my dentist ASAP and he started the root canal on one of my molars that has historically had a lot of fillings and given me trouble in the past.  I can't even bring myself to make a joke - like "I'd rather have a root canal than have a Lisfranc injury"  Now I have both!   :-)

I hope to be relatively pain free by tomorrow.  

How to get a Lisfranc - but you were afraid to ask

So we all have our own personal stories as to how we got this injury - tripping on steps, curbs, missing a step, falling off a ladder, a horse (the original), wrestling, martial arts, snowboarding, skiing, wind surfing, auto accident, industrial accident, ballet, football, surfing, walking, tripping, tripping on high heels, playing with your kids, jumping off a sailboat onto a dock, and walking off of a boat and hitting the cleat - which - you might ask - what is it - ?   Here is a pic to "re-enact" my injury...

I just happened to be passing a mooring cleat and had my friend take this pic - I want to piece together the source to the end.   I have some rather gruesome pics of what happened after this - complements of one of my friends that took the pic the night of the accident.  It took me two months to even want to view those.  And I will not post those pics - I''ll leave it to your imagination!

8 weeks Sunday...  3 more weeks NWB!     Have a nice weekend all!

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Supplements

Part of the healing process is definitely related to diet and life-style.  My Surgeon seems pleased with my healing so far and I attribute some of this to my use of dietary supplements.  I have a very good friend who owns a Vitamin company called Designs For Health.  They market directly to Nutritionists and Physicians.  Since she is also a Nutritionist, she has recommended a supplement routine that I am on twice daily.  I don't know exact dosages - and it may differ by individual, so I will provide the general supplements I am taking.  Check with your physician before taking anything.   But I am using:

- Men's Multi daily
- Large Bayer Aspirin daily - for blood thinning
- Co-Q-10
- Zinc
- Vitamin D
- Glucosamine
- Calcium
- Vitamin C
- MSM

and then two proprietary formulas from Designs for Health - One called Arthrosoothe  and one called Inflamatone

In general - This mixture is helping to prevent, enhance or reduce - inflammation, bone growth, soft tissue healing, skin healing.

I have to say I am a believer and that I'll take any edge over not doing nothing at all on this front.

I took another tumble - Ugh!

I thin I need to slow down.  Ever since I received the knee walker I have been out and about as much as possible, I trundle up and down short flights of stairs on this, thru gravel driveways, thru rocky lawns, sidewalks, the Metro-North train to NYC, the streets of NYC, - you get the picture - and I am not what I would call a dainty guy!  After getting my cast off on Thur we stopped for lunch at a favorite waterside restaurant.  Knapps Landing overlooks the mouth of the Housatonic river which empties into the Long Island Sound.  After a nice lunch I was wheeling down the handicap ramp and the front wheels came off the walker. I caught myself - no big deal.  Called the medical supply company Friday am and they delivered me a new one no questions asked by 3pm.  Yesterday, I got to take my boat with a few friends to Milford CT for lunch.  It was nice to finally get back out on the water - with an experienced crew I had nothing to worry about. Once I navigated the dock ramp I made my way up the hill on the new knee walker.  We get to an intersection and begin to cross the street.  As we are crossing I sort of notice the handlebar is a little loose.  I hit a small crack in the road - my steering wheel goes one way, and I start to fall.  Instinctively, my left foot goes out to catch myself - For an instant, the boot hits the ground - I feel a dull pain from deep in the bone and I throw myself in the opposite direction, falling to the ground in the middle of the street.  My friends and wife are helping me up along with some other passersby.  The knee walker looks broken again!  I am very shaken up at this point.  I hobble to the curb to sit down.  Scared out of my mind that that instant of weight bearing has damaged 7 weeks of healing.  I am waiting for the on-set of pain.  My friend ran back to the boat for tools - and luckily only needed to tighten down the handlebars.  We surmise that the medical supply company did not tighten the handlebars properly.  I have a good mind to call them up and complain - but I'll let it slide.  I was nervous throughout lunch and the rest of the day - waiting for any strange pain.  To my relief - the foot seems to look and feel the same as before.  So I THINK, no damage done.

Has anybody else had a similar oops experience and put weight on their foot during NWB?  What were the effects?

My wife says she now wants to wrap me in a large bubble   LOL!