Life on the living room sofa...

[fajrdrako]

I woke up at 7 this morning, because my radio alarm has been set to 7 a.m. since Monday and no one has changed it. The logistics of going into the bedroom (almost impossible in the first place), climbing over the bed and turning it off are way beyond me at present. So, awake, I started the day by eagerly watching the series-ender of Torchwood, "Exit Wounds". I will have much to say when I have the strength and energy to actually sit at the computer and comment.

Then maaseru came down for breakfast and made oatmeal; maaboroshi brought coffee from our favourite coffee shop, Bridgehead, and it was most luxurious.

Soon after that, I got a wonderful visit from my friends Marion and Vicky. They came bearing gifts. First, made by Marion, was a set of fannish photo-cards, as follows: click on the link for the picture and caption:

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And there was another gift from Vicky and Marion. It is a nicely-decorated golden Egyptian sarcophagus, 9" long. Empty, but written in pen at the bottom of the sarcophagus, in Peter Wingfield's handwriting: No Methos in here! - Peter Wingfield.

She got me Peter Wingfield's autograph. In a sarcophagus.

I am a happy, happy fan. (Immobile, but happy.)

Comments

[chatona.livejournal.com]

It's good to hear that you're happy! *hugs* *leaves you muffins*

[fajrdrako.livejournal.com]

Muffins - yay!

[gillo]

Glad to hear you're getting the attention you deserve. Get someone to take a sledgehammer to the alarm for tonight, though!

[commodorified.livejournal.com]

Done :)

[gillo]

Well done!

[fajrdrako.livejournal.com]

She's a knight in shining armour.

[fajrdrako.livejournal.com]

And thank you again!

Now I'll be able to sleep tomorrow morning. This is a Good Thing.

Not that I haven't been sleeping a lot at all times. But one likes to be able to choose the times.

[fajrdrako.livejournal.com]

Glad to hear you're getting the attention you deserve.

Yes, thank you. Everyone has been wonderful. I'm going to see if I can arrange some sort of part-time nursing care because it's going to be a long time before I can fend for myself. But everyone has been helpful and kind and saying 'just call me if you need anything', and it really does a lot to put my mind at ease.

commodorified took care of the radio alarm: she pulled the plug.

[gillo]

commodorified took care of the radio alarm: she pulled the plug.

Good for her! Nice to have friends you can rely on for the important things.

Take care.

[fajrdrako.livejournal.com]

Turns out pulling the plug didn't work. Aaargh!

I wonder what the alarm will think of to do to me tomorrow.

I suggested to maaseru that we should take a sledgehammer to it and she pointed out that even if we had a sledgehammer we wouldn't be able to lift it.

Hmmph.

[gillo]

Hmm. Tricky one. I'd suggest an Uzi or two, like

Spike

Captain John used on Jack, but it might affect your balance...

[fajrdrako.livejournal.com]

I'm all out of Uzis at the moment - I wonder if Captain John delivers?

[gillo]

Now there's a tasty thought.

All-you-can-eat

Marsters delivered to your door!

[fajrdrako.livejournal.com]

And if he takes more than half an hour to arrive, do we get him free?

[silverwhistle.livejournal.com]

At least Doctor Who was cute and fluffy (with cute aliens!) after the trauma of Torchwood.

[darthhellokitty.livejournal.com]

I told my husband "We should get some of those!" and he said "We already have lots of them!" XD

I knew I could depend on Dr Who to lighten things up. :-)

fajrdrako you certainly took in a fine haul of get-well stuff! Good work! :-)

[fajrdrako.livejournal.com]

you certainly took in a fine haul of get-well stuff!

Marion and Vicky did tell me sternly that I was Going Too Far, if I'd broken my ankle as a ploy to get prezzies. Lisa suggested I'd Gone Too Far if I thought breaking my ankle was a ploy to get out of doing my daily exercises. Everyone's such a skeptic. I am perfectly capable of skipping doing exercises with no excuse whatsoever.

Mind you, I figure I'm getting plenty of workout with the walker every time I go to the bathroom. Every step means putting my total body weight on my arms. Sometimes it feels as if I've been in a marathon, and I've just crossed my own living room.

[abrakadabrah.livejournal.com]

So how did you slip and break your leg so badly? For some reason, you left that inessential part out of your otherwise very thorough narrative. [vbg]

Glad you're getting some decent prezzies to keep you amused in the meantime.

Seems like the one good thing to come out of this is that you'll have plenty of time in the near future to read and write and catch up on all the series you wanted to see.

I was going to ask, before, if they were giving you a chair for the interim until you were a bit more mobile. But I see you got a walker instead. As you say, at least the rest of you will get a workout.

Feel much, much better. And quickly.

[fajrdrako.livejournal.com]

So how did you slip and break your leg so badly?

I was on my way to the bus stop to catch the bus to work on Monday morning. It was snowing - light dusting of snow over ice on the sidewalk. I put down my foot and the foot kept on going. I landed on the ground, ankle broken and dislocated. I said, "Oh, shit," and discovered I couldn't stand.

Glad you're getting some decent prezzies to keep you amused in the meantime.

It's wonderful! It's like an extra Christmas, with flowers and with pain.

Seems like the one good thing to come out of this is that you'll have plenty of time in the near future to read and write and catch up on all the series you wanted to see.

There's hope of that!

I was going to ask, before, if they were giving you a chair for the interim until you were a bit more mobile. But I see you got a walker instead.

The physiotherapy people seemed to think it was the way to go. I think I feel more stable with it than I would with a chair. I can always rent a chair later, if it seems appropriate.

Feel much, much better.

Thank you, I hope to. And soon.

[fajrdrako.livejournal.com]

I haven't got to Doctor Who yet - will watch very soon. Maybe now.

Torchwood was a multi-hanky episode. "Cute and fluffy" will be a nice change.

[silverwhistle.livejournal.com]

A lot of people I've spoken to want toy versions of the alien babies. The Whovian answer to Star Trek Tribbles…

Torchwood: jeeze, Romeo & Juliet has nothing on it!

[fajrdrako.livejournal.com]

A lot of people I've spoken to want toy versions of the alien babies.

Eeee scary!

I wouldn't mind losing weight like that, though.

jeeze, Romeo & Juliet has nothing on it!

When it comes to character torture, Shakespeare was downright kind.

[ceruleancat.livejournal.com]

Glad you're comfy and that you have people to take care of your physical and fandom needs.

Although, I would seriously not want to be Wilson's patient, nor House's for that matter.

[fajrdrako.livejournal.com]

I haven't seen enough of House to know what Wilson is like as a doctor. From what I've seen, I gather that House's talent is to figure really strange and obscure mysterious ailments and cure them. Since there is nothing mysterious about my broken ankle, I don't think his skills are helpful to me just now. And with a bad leg, he wouldn't even be able to fetch'n'carry, which is something I seem to need a lot. Can't carry anything at all. Sometimes things I need (a drink, my glasses, my phone) are at the opposite end of the room - how does that happen? Bother.

"Caddy."

[walkingowl.livejournal.com]

Can't carry anything at all. Sometimes things I need (a drink, my glasses, my phone) are at the opposite end of the room - how does that happen? Bother.

You just need to affix a [hold on, not verbal... sigh] thing to your walker into which to put the things you use most often. Not backpack, not -- ah, "saddlebag"! Right. They actually make such things, but one can also improvixe nicely -- use one of the bags you carry home groceries in, yes?

As for the phone: well, lady, it looks like someone is going to have to get you to get a cellphone. They don't have cords on them, did you know that? No, really, it's amazing. No cord, and they're still a phone. I have no idea how they do it. But they'll go into the walker-caddy [dang! that's the other word that hid, earlier... at last it appears] without trailing a cord dangerously behind you on those ever-important trips to the bathroom.

Now I'll go up there and write the Subject line.

Re: "Caddy."

[fajrdrako.livejournal.com]

At present a saddlebag on my walker wouldn't be practical. Maybe when I'm more used to it - but I don't want anything that makes the walker any heavier than it is now, even by ounces, because I have to lift it with every step. And I am afraid of overbalancing. When I get more used to it I will probably be less paranoid about it and a little more willing to experiment.

Meanwhile I'm putting important things in my pockets or holding them in my teeth. I also have a handbag I can loop around my neck if necessary.

Re: "Caddy."

[walkingowl.livejournal.com]

I know your energy is precious at this time, but you might think about going in search of something online in the way of how better to cope with learning to get around with a walker. Many, many, many sites out there written by good and brilliant and practical and down-to-earth people who might be called disabled. I was also mostly thinking of your being able to find some sort of advice for a gentle exercise program for strengthening your arms and chest for this work; as well as exercises for easing the back muscles that might end up feeling tight because of it. Also, the one time I had to have my foot elevated for a good long time, I kept getting knotted muscles in my hip, and I hope you don't encounter that....

What you really need is a companion animal to fetch and carry the little things. Perhaps if the budgies all three pulled together in the same direction, they could manage to lift the phone for you?

Think of them dive-bombing your insanely pulsating alarm clock. I'm getting flashbacks to "Cyberwoman" and the pterodactyl...!

Whatever you do: don't piss off the budgies!!!

Re: "Caddy."

[fajrdrako.livejournal.com]

commodorified fixed me up with a caddy - a little plastic basket on the walker that is very, very light, not very big, but big enough for my glasses, the telephone, and a bottle of water. Makes me feel secure!

Some knotted muscles, not to bad. My left hip and right thigh had the worst problems with overuse and strain. That's all better now; muscles have adjusted, as muscles do.

Re: "Caddy."

[walkingowl.livejournal.com]

Ah, that's good to hear.

I ran across a catalog that has great stuff in it, all sorts of practical stuff that you don't realize exists until you're in the position of, say, not being able to cross your living room without pausing to rest, eh? They had a very nice little walker-caddy, but now you're already all set with one.

I am so glad to hear that your leg muscles don't feel too awful. I was terribly worried that the dislocation had pulled things all the way up to your hip. I imagine you'd see some quite interesting bruise colors, were you equipped with a transparent cast and could look at your calf [g]... just as well that casts are opaque, yes? But I do hope that your right knee and hip don't feel too bad. Then again, last time I did damage to my ankles/feet, the pain in my knees didn't appear for about a week... oh, okay, you're fine!

I still think it would have been cute to equip the budgies with little harnesses with grappling hooks for snagging your glasses and so on as they flew over them. Girl, it's clear, you need your own pterodactyl.

[ceruleancat.livejournal.com]

Well, Wilson is an oncologist...

Sometimes things I need (a drink, my glasses, my phone) are at the opposite end of the room - how does that happen?

Of course they are. Who put them so far away, though? The budgies? ;)

[fajrdrako.livejournal.com]

The budgies have always been good at teleporting feathers to places they haven't been. Maybe they've graduated to larger objects?

[walkingowl.livejournal.com]

The photo-cards are much too delightful for words. Gad, you have neat friends!

[fajrdrako.livejournal.com]

I certainly do have neat friends. In every way!

(Well, some of them aren't literally neat. But all of them are interesting, and most of them are creative.)

[wanderinunicorn.livejournal.com]

I wish you fast recovery, hope you will soon better.

[fajrdrako.livejournal.com]

Thank you! I won't be able to walk on the foot for at least six weeks, but we'll hope the really painful part is over soon.

[mad-jaks.livejournal.com]

She got me Peter Wingfield's autograph. In a sarcophagus.
OMG you have best friends!

[fajrdrako.livejournal.com]

OMG you have best friends!

My friends are the most wonderful people ever and they have such good taste in heroes.

[raissad.livejournal.com]

PW's autograph. Cool! Did the virtual LJ gifts I sent show up.

[fajrdrako.livejournal.com]

I don't know when your virtual gifts showed up but I saw them today - thank you so much! You made me smile. ♥

Yes, PW's autograph. Immediately a Treasured Possession.