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Re: [at-l] I'm FREE!!!!!

If the doc does remove the cast, can you save the big chunks for Felix's
pre-hike training?
Also, the other amenities, i.e. the little critters you  have identified
would be a good nutritional addition to the hamburg he is sending ahead on
his maildrops.


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> From: kahley7 <kahley7@ptd.net>
> To: at-l@saffron.hack.net
> Subject: [at-l] I'm FREE!!!!!
> Date: Wednesday, May 20, 1998 5:45 PM
> 
> Well gang..I was supposed to go to the ortho a week
> from today to get the &^%^& cast removed have an
> xray or six to determine how well my broken Jones was
> progressing. There has been a change in plans.
> 
> 
> The following is not to be read by anyone currently wearing
> a cast.  So, Chatter, hit delete now....I mean it!!!!
> 
> It should not be read by anyone with a weak stomach...
> all so inclined delete now.
> 
> If you still have nightmares about movies you saw ten
> years ago....hit the D-key.
> 
> Ok...last chance...
> 
> For the last week, I have been convinced that the cast had
> rubbed the side of my ankle so severly as to cause an open sore.
> For the last four days, I have been 70% sure that unbeknownst
> to me, a fly had crawled into my cast and laid eggs in that sore.
> And the eggs had developed into maggots and they were
> chewing away at my ankle.
> As I lay awake last nite, trying to determine if I actually felt their
> soft little mouth parts munching on me, or if I was just plain nuts,
> I realized there was no way I was going to make it for another week.
> I called my ortho and announced that the cast was coming off today.
> And did he want to do it.  If he didn't want to, I had a Dremel
> Roto-tool and I'd do it myseft.  I guess he could tell I was serious
> and made an appt. for 1:00.
> Well to make a long story short...too late for that I guess <g>.
> The cast is off. The bone has achieved union, barely.  Enough
> so that all I have to do is not rebreak it for another 2 months
> and then I can start hiking again....sort of.  Another cast was
> ordered, I declined, so they put me in something called a
> Bledsoe.  Wonderfull thing...a removable cast!!!!  Crutches
> for two weeks...and the Bledsoe for two months.
> And the wheel chair goes back in my Mom's attic.
> YAAAAHHHHOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO.
> BTW....no maggots.  But the DR. said it does_actually_happen,
> but that it's no big deal.  The maggots only like the dead skin around
> the edges and their lunch habits are useful.  Yech.
> 
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