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Mar. 10th, 2009
Days of lasts
Mar. 10th, 2009 10:08 pmWell, the brief period of calm before the storm ends today.
Tomorrow at approximately 1 p.m. we will drive for Columbia, five hours away. We will check into a hotel and stay the night, then early Thursday morning, they will check me into the hospital where I will be put under and have the old hardware yanked out of my leg and have new hardware put in. This new hardware will be what is called a Taylor spatial frame. If you're curious what it will look like, Google Image Search has a number of instructive pictures.
Because of what it looks like, I have been and intend to continue calling it my "medieval torture device." But I suppose I could just as legitimately call it my own personal chunk of exoskeleton. (One of my Twitter friends suggested that I should have a Heim-Dröscher drive attached to it so it could be a "Taylor hyperspatial frame".)
( So, this has been a week of 'lasts.' )
I'm just kind of sad: I've gotten used to being able to hobble around on my own, and now it's back to square one. I'm not even sure when I'll be allowed to put any weight on the leg at all. Back to the walker and the wheelchair again? Or maybe I'll at least be able to use my crutches from square one given my experience with them.
But enough maundering. Time to finish my drink and get to bed. Hopefully I'll be able to sleep well and not insomne tonight.
Tomorrow at approximately 1 p.m. we will drive for Columbia, five hours away. We will check into a hotel and stay the night, then early Thursday morning, they will check me into the hospital where I will be put under and have the old hardware yanked out of my leg and have new hardware put in. This new hardware will be what is called a Taylor spatial frame. If you're curious what it will look like, Google Image Search has a number of instructive pictures.
Because of what it looks like, I have been and intend to continue calling it my "medieval torture device." But I suppose I could just as legitimately call it my own personal chunk of exoskeleton. (One of my Twitter friends suggested that I should have a Heim-Dröscher drive attached to it so it could be a "Taylor hyperspatial frame".)
( So, this has been a week of 'lasts.' )
I'm just kind of sad: I've gotten used to being able to hobble around on my own, and now it's back to square one. I'm not even sure when I'll be allowed to put any weight on the leg at all. Back to the walker and the wheelchair again? Or maybe I'll at least be able to use my crutches from square one given my experience with them.
But enough maundering. Time to finish my drink and get to bed. Hopefully I'll be able to sleep well and not insomne tonight.
