Scooter Chronicles

My recovery has officially worked it’s way into the eighth week. As of yesterday, I was seven weeks post-op. I have been putting some weight on my foot, as instructed by my doctor. While I was in Williamsburg I even had times where I was walking with the crutches on both feet in some stores. Though I couldn’t do that for too long before I would get a little pain on the bottom of my foot, near my toes. I think that is from the swelling of standing up and being in a cast.

The main thing though is I haven’t felt any pain from the tendon itself or other areas affected by the rupture. There is some discomfort though, but that might be due to the cast being so tight. I will of course discuss this with the doctor...

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A few weeks ago Marcia bought a video tape of a BBC show called “The Thin Blue Line” starring Rowan Atkinson, who is best known in the states as Mr. Bean. Marcia had been a fan of his previous work on the BBC show “Black Adder”, which was done before Mr. Bean, and had me hooked. (He was also in the movie “Johnny English”.) The main writer for all three of these series was Ben Elton. The tape contained only two episodes and they seemed decent. Given the price though ($10 a tape) I was hesitant to pick up any more until I saw the DVD collection. It was $40 for all 14 episodes. So we picked it up.

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