Tag: ruptured-tendon
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Time For The Rubber To Meet The Road- December 7, 2024
December 7, 2024 When it comes to family, if there’s any way possible, I will walk through brick walls to get to where my family wants me. There’s simply no question about it. Such was the case when my daughter and granddaughter invited my wife and I to attend the beautiful and very Christmas seasonal…
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Cast On… Cast Off! December 3, 2024
December 3, 2024 There’s a movie I remember watching in my 20’s entitled “The Karate Kid”. As in most memorable movies, there are a few lines that are especially quote worthy. “The Karate Kid” has a special one: “Wax On!” with the right-hand rotating in a clockwise direction… “Wax Off” with the left had rotating…
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I’ll Be Back! Thanksgiving Day, November 28, 2024
November 28,2024 I love Thanksgiving Day! The food! The family! The Turkey Trot! Rats… no Turkey Trot for me this year. For the first time in forever, no Turkey Trot. Occasionally ‘reality’ sucks… and it certainly does in this case. Every year since the mid-90’s, on Thanksgiving Day I’ve located a local Turkey Trot, registered…
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Faith in Humanity… Restored. November 25-26, 2024
November 25-26, 2024 In all things, life does go on. As what usually happens in life, plans are constantly being made and adjusted along with out-of-town visits requested by grandkids via Facetime… All regardless of my still-recovering surgically repaired ankle’s ability to cooperate. My wife and I have been blessed with several grandchildren. I’ve made…
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Splints? We Don’t Need No Stinkin’ Splints! Thursday, November 14, 2024
Thursday, November 14, 2024 Recovery Milestone Day # 1… splint removal! Following my surgery to reattach my ruptured Achilles tendon, our first circled calendar date was Thursday, November 14th… the day my post-surgical applied splint and wrap would be removed and replaced with a more ‘permanent’ cast. My wife drives us to the appointment that…
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Wishing My Life Away… Monday, November 11, 2024
Monday, November 11, 2024 This article took me forever to start. Reason: I wanted to make certain the feelings I was experiencing toward this subject were truly real. Turns out… they were. Any recovery process is a series of milestone events… next ortho appointment… first splint removal… cast removal date… physical therapy start, etc., etc.,…
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Today’s Daunting Task… Sunday, November 3, 2024
Sunday, November 3, 2024. There’s a famous line from the movie “Dirty Dancing” I think we all know… “Nobody puts baby in the corner.” That movie line came to mind as I was in the downstair guest bedroom for the 3rd day in the row… slightly modified in my head to read “Nobody puts Ken in…
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The ‘Amazon’ Approach to Medicine (Tuesday, 10-29-24)
Tuesday, October 29, 2024. At the start of any medical issue, you want answers… NOW. In this ‘order today, get it later today’ Amazon world, doesn’t this also apply to medicine? No it doesn’t. But in this case… it came close. The drive from New Orleans to Houston is a not-so-fast and a not-so-easy drive…
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And so it begins… (Sunday, 10-27-24)
Sunday, October 27, 2024. I like to have future runs & races planned out. With some 10+ races on the books for late fall/early winter, I like to think of myself in a ‘constant state of training’. Visiting family in the greater New Orleans, I decided to wake up a little early (4:30AM) and go…
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