Of pain and alternate uses for knitting
Unconscious Mutterings week 288
- Crankiness :: is a fucked up foot.
- Backpack :: mountains. Waaahhh!
- Clone :: can you clone a foot?
- High ground :: ACK! NO!
- Dreams :: lately they’ve been about babies. I don’t get it. Can’t have them, don’t really want another…I think it’s all kittywhumpus’s fault
- Lovingly :: wash my hair for me. Ahhh…bliss!
- Mistake :: stairs. ‘Nuff said.
- Carson :: Street! Damn, won’t be able to walk it again soon…
- Errand :: Ouch. Even the wheelchair makes my foot hurt so much errands are a major :pita:
- Dozen :: baker’s. Cupcakes. Hmm, might have to have MrDanesi stop after work
I know you’re just dying to hear more about my foot“sack of meat with some bones floating around”, right? Well, pretend. Surgery is scheduled for Monday, I had a CT today. I’m actually extremely happy about this! Like I’ve been telling everyone, the pain and everything I’ll have to deal with after surgery is going to suck but I prefer that because it means I’m on my way to healing. This pain I’m in now is useless, all it means is I’m a klutz who missed one lousy damned stair. There’s no healing going on here, it’s just all pain and that makes it all the worse to deal with. Not even the good drugs help much with that part.
It doesn’t help that they put me in a new splint at my last appointment. Remember how I said I fell twice? Well one of those managed to break the plaster on the last splint, right at the heel (the weakest part) so it no longer offered any support at all. I ended up taking the damned thing off and re-wrapping my foot in just the ace bandage because it just put too much pressure on my foot, the plaster actually pulled on my foot and made the pain ten times worse. The doctors were not at all pleased and told me I have to keep this one on. I was more than happy to comply, it actually feels better to have that support, except that this damned splint is almost worse! They didn’t set up the plaster very well so my foot/ankle is actually held crooked. They put no padding in it at all so my heel is being pressed hard into a space that is shaped all wrong and it fucking HURTS! Isn’t the pain from the injury enough?? I have to deal with this, too? I’ve unwrapped and rewrapped this thing a billion times and it always feels better for a little while, then my ankle and heel start killing me again. My guess is they feel better at first because of the relief of having it off for that little bit.
Well, last night I had a brain surge or something. I’d been trying to pad the plaster around the heel and ankle, putting bits of gauze and even a sock between the plaster and those parts of my foot, and then re-wrapping very carefully but it just never worked quite right. Either the padding wasn’t enough, the funkiness of the shape of the plaster made the padding useless, or the padding was situated so that there was an obvious “line” where it ended that I just couldn’t stand the feeling of on top of the pain. Last night I had the idea to pad the whole thing, wrap something around the whole of the plaster bit, or at least the part that’s directly on my foot and ankle. I figured this way I could negate the odd shaping and still have the support. Then I started thinking about what to use for the padding – it had to be something long and fairly skinny, like an ace bandage, and it had to be soft. The idea of knitting something came to mind but I knew I wouldn’t be able to get it done very quickly (for all that it would be idiot simple, I’m just not that fast), but then it occured to me that what I was imagining was essentially a skinny scarf. Well, I have one of those, my Georgiana It’s not all that skinny but it’s knit in a super soft yarn that I love. I wrapped it around the plaster where my foot actually sits, making sure to get it as even as possible. It means everything is much bulkier but I’ll take that in return for my foot being almost comfortable! I mean, it still hurts like a bitch but it’s the “normal” pain, not that horrible combination. We’ll just have to see how much this pisses off the doctor…and then I’ll tell her to fuck off. If they’d done it properly in the first place I’d've gladly left it alone!
