Chad’s Blog

First Home, broken leg, past 6~ months of my life..

I’d been ignoring my own blog for quite some time, and I’m sorry blog, but I’m back on it again, hopefully for good at least.. Last summer I finally bought my first house, woot! And I must say it is awsome, to have a place where I can make pretty much any change I want to my place and yard, with-in reason to the law and code and in good faith with my mortgage (to not devalue this house/property I guess). But yeah, I can use the rooms to whatever ends I want, completely have whatever style I want in the house etc.. I had/have so many idea’s for this place, its almost hard to decide what direction to go in.. Well things had been put on hold last fall when I broke my leg while attending a Major function.. Let me just say, that sucked, first time I’d broken anything (other than maybe some toes which I never did anything for..).. I was off my left leg and pretty much bed ridden (doctors orders) for 6 weeks, and off work. I had hoped to be able to at least work from home, but since I was on medical leave it wouldn’t have been proper to do so, so I didn’t… I would love to say I had fun doing all the things I wanted while not working, but I couldn’t do anything! I couldn’t work on my house (which I had planned to do the week after the major during a vacation I had scheduled..). I had great help from my family for getting things around, and doing my errands like getting groceries etc. One of the things I had them help me with was to get my main computer and laptop plus a gaming system setup near the bed I was using so that I could at least stay on the net..

Don’t ask me why I didn’t blog during that time.. maybe I just wasn’t quite with it.. It didn’t help that I had a hard time sleeping during that first few weeks after the surgery (I got a rod and 4 screws.. yippy!) or that my days were pretty much unstructured. They had sent me home with pain meds, but of course, I hate taking anything, so I think I only ended up taking 2 possibly 3, just to help throb the pain to at least try and get some sleep during that first week home. I have to say, its hard to sleep not only with the pain, but I’ve done that before so it wasn’t just that, but the fact that I was so restless after laying in bed pretty much 24/7 (only up to use the rest room and get food pretty much, and feed the kitten).. I think I pretty much wasted a good chunk of that 6 weeks (and some time after!) playing an additive web game called … heh, I cant remember now, some role playing type game where you “build” a castle and.. oh yeah, Evony or something like that.. I will confess, I also spent money buying virtual currency for that too.. wow that was somewhat lame at first, but cool, because it let me catch up to those that have been playing longer than I.. I cannot remember how much I spent in terms of my time and Money in that game, but I wouldn’t be surprised if it was over 200 bucks easy.. way more than I’ve ever spent money wise in terms of game cost and subscription fees for most games except maybe WoW..

I had tried to get back into some games that I’ve played a lot, WoW being one of them.. I just couldn’t get back into that at the time, as most of my friends that had been playing it had either stopped, or taken a break, or split up into other servers. It also didn’t help that it felt weird trying to play any first person or third person game from bed..

After about 6 weeks being on my back and off work I was able to finally resume work, in a limited capacity.. I couldn’t really lift anything heavy. I had to wear a “boot” for that leg for a while (I think I stopped in either november or December.. can’t recall when for sure), which was annoying as heck, as my leg would swell up at certain points with the boot on, and get quiet uncomfortable.. at one point my doctor wanted me to start walking with my boot and crutches, which at first was great, seemed mostly ok. Then after a week or two of that (at least I think thats about the right time frame, kinda blurry now..) I wasn’t to need the boot and shouldnt need any other support. Well that went ok for a day or so, and then it started hurting again. so I went back into the boot and one crutch for probably a few more weeks. I want to say that it was probably around December when I was able to finally walk without either boot or crutch, with just a slight limp (my ankle was still having limited range at that time)..

I did not do therapy for this at all by the way.. as my doctor said as long as I didn’t think I needed to, I wouldn’t have to. They gave me some great exercises, some of them was a bit difficult to do.. as I wanted to do them but I wasn’t suppose to cause any pain and they would, so I didn’t do them all. I think it was sometime after the new year when I could finally walk with barely a limp, and sometime during the early part of the year I got rid of that pretty much all together.. there are still some times when my leg will do something funny, like part of it feels like its colapsing or something.. and not to mention, it felt really weird knelling on my knee while working on the living room that I was painting and doing some work on..

Anyways.. enough rambling on this for now..