Friday...

[fajrdrako]

Went to the hospital today to get my new cast on The Foot. maaseru went with me, and no thanks could ever be enough for what it meant to me. I got a new cast - a lighter one - and they took the staples out of my leg. It's healing well, but a little swollen, and should be kept up more. And higher. And I should exercise. Four weeks from now, I go back to the doctor, and sometime after that will start physio-therapy.

I had no appetite before going to the doctor; it's hard to eat much these days. By the time I got home I was shaking and exhausted, and so ate a bit, and napped. And then felt halfway human again.

Then my friend Jacques came over. We had Greek take-out for dinner and talked and played two games of Scrabble - with the first one, he felt he'd forgotten the rules too much, it took a good half game before he got a feel for it. But he's a game-player all the way, and by the second game I could see his brain kick into gear with clever strategic moves.

Mostly we talked. I've known Jacques since high school. He's very interesting for self-analytical and philosophical talk - in fact, once we get talking, it's hard to stop.

So now I'm tired again, but not unhappily so.