5 things, broken ankle edition

[truepenny]

Storytellers Unplugged for Augsut, "Verisimilitude. Plus a sestina," is live. And, yes, this is the sestina I wrote stoned on Tylenol 3. It may not be very good, but it's the best blank verse I've ever written.

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I'm sorry to have been confusing. There are, in fact, nine screws in my ankle. The one they didn't have to put in was the one that would have held the two bones of my ankle to each other. It's also the only one they would have had to go in and take out again, so it is a very good thing it wasn't necessary. But it's not the same as not having screws in at all.

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mirrorthaw, who is a Hero of the Revolution, helped me wash my hair this afternoon. I feel much more human, but also exhausted.

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The worst thing, bar none, about the broken ankle, is the involuntary twitching. Especially when I'm asleep, as it causes me to dream that I've missed a step on the stairs or fallen forward or something like that, so I wake up with both a bolt of agony and a burst of adrenaline. If I take my maximum dose of painkillers just before bed, I can knock myself far enough out that it doesn't happen (and, I should add, this was the doctor's suggestion, not something I made up for myself). I don't enjoy the Oxycodone hangover--and hopefully will be able to ease off over time--but it's worth it for being able to sleep.

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The ninjas are terrified of my crutches.

Comments

use a "dogbone" pillow

[(Anonymous)]

When I broke my ankle, I found using a "dogbone" pillow helped cushion and restrict unwise movement while sleeping. A "dogbone" pillow is a type of pillow for sleeping in a car or plane - fat ends but slender middle - (not the "U" shaped type of travel pillow). The fat ends of the "dogbone" work just as well to support the ankle as a nodding head.