I think they removed my brain too!

This morning I was moving around at a very slow pace and noticing how my foot, which had returned to normal, was once again swollen. My ankle felt like a bad sprain and I was sure I could see new bruises on my foot. It took me about half an hour to realise what it meant to be seeing the swelling etc. It meant I could see my foot therefore I was not wearing my nice supportive and highly stylish moon boot.

My poor foot was sending out all the signals to tell me that it wasn't ready to take on this whole walking business unsupported and I was just going "lala la." My foot is now elevated and I will be popping my moon boot on every time I get on my feet. OK maybe not I finale to do a middle of the night bathroom visit, but all other times.

When I went and got my cast off I extolled the virtues of the iWalk and basically said to everyone from nurses to radiologist to Registrar to Consultant, why are you not telling people about this? I gave them the brochures I had from the New Zealand distributor and she emailed today to say she had had a request for more from the clinic! My work here is done!

On a totally unrelated topic but a point-in-time reference, It's a bit of a sad time in the world at the moment, not only do we have the ongoing Gaza turmoil, we have ISIS in Iraq, the shooting down of the Malaysian Airlines plane in the Ukraine and lots of little strifes. Then we get the news that the funniest man ever has ended his life. Robin Williams has left the building. It seems to be a sad characteristic of comedians that all the happiness seems to be given to audiences and they are left with deficit in their own lives. Also, in a repeat of Farrah Fawcett's death being overshadowed by Michael Jackson's death, the amazing Lauren Bacall's death came almost as an addenda to the news of Robin's death. Despite our boasts of superiority, human beings are still a delicate little species.