{"id":7313,"date":"2013-01-20T14:17:00","date_gmt":"2013-01-20T14:17:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hrefna.com\/blog\/?p=7313"},"modified":"2013-01-20T15:30:57","modified_gmt":"2013-01-20T15:30:57","slug":"my-right-foot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hrefna.com\/blog\/2013\/01\/my-right-foot\/","title":{"rendered":"My Right Foot"},"content":{"rendered":"

(Yes, even more fun stuff about swelling… sorry! \u00a0My life is just that boring<\/em> right now!)<\/p>\n

I realized somewhat sheepishly yesterday that I’d spent a lot of time on the sofa with a pillow or two under my knees<\/em>, and not under my ankles – thereby not ‘elevating’ much of anything usefully.<\/p>\n

So I spent yesterday in a V-shape, trying to keep my toes up high. \u00a0And lo and behold, gravity did its thing and the (warning: gross picture) uber-swelling<\/a> went down. \u00a0It also seemed to help to down a Gatorade, so maybe I’m also a tad dehydrated?<\/p>\n

Here are (not so gross) pictures of my right foot from shortly after lunch today:<\/p>\n

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My right foot, looking more foot-ish than yesterday.<\/p><\/div>\n

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The other side. It’s not quite down to ‘normal’ size, but it’s not uncomfortably swollen any more.<\/p><\/div>\n

The take-away message seems to be that I have a very low tolerance for staying upright these days, and I’ve therefore put myself on bedrest for all intents and\u00a0purposes. \u00a0Which sucks, because that means Finnur’s getting stuck with doing everything<\/em>, which is neither fair nor fun at all.<\/p>\n

In other happy news, it does seem like my left hip-flexor was thankful for my crutch-usage yesterday, and it’s much less painful today. \u00a0It’s still not ‘good’ but, I’ll take ‘better’ for now.<\/p>\n

The kids are a little freaked out by this useless mother, with mysterious hip pain (no blood! \u00a0no bandages!) , and they both had ‘leg pains’ of their own yesterday. \u00a0Bjarki commandeered his great-grandfather’s walking cane, and made a big show of ‘not being able to walk long without it’, while Anna hobbled about on one crutch, probably doing more harm to her shoulder than helping her ‘ankle-problem’ in any way.<\/p>\n

Neither cane nor crutch are really on offer for them today, because they weren’t being terribly careful with them, but the drama was fun to watch… \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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