General bah-ness and ouching

Yesterday stood out not so much for its scheduled medical stuff as the unscheduled events.  Last week I found the end of a deep suture protruding from my left little toe, which the podiatrist trimmed when I saw him Thursday; during the process, though, I apparently got an infection in the toe, which turned nasty and painful over the weekend.  I couldn't reach it to do anything with it, but cymrullewes drained it yesterday and cleaned it up with alcohol and Betadine, and it's doing much better now.  The toe is less painful and much less red than it was this time yesterday.

The same cannot, unfortunately, be said of my left foot and knee.  We got close to a foot of snow yesterday, which started out as powder and turned heavier and wetter ad the day wore on and warmed up.  I shovelled out our path (twice), our parking space, and our neighbor's (and did a much better job with a shovel than the HOA does with their plough), which gave me a good workout, but during the course of shuffling cars back and forth later so the HOA could plough the parking lot, I fell twice on snow patches that their tractor had packed down and polished almost to ice.  I wrenched my left foot and knee pretty hard, and both are rather more painful than usual today.  There's a certain academic interest in that by moving my foot and observing what motions hurt most, I can reconstruct pretty clearly exactly how it must have gotten wrenched when I went down.

Unlike cymrullewes, though, when she fell recently on ice, I haven't come out of it with a hematoma the size of my hand.  And although I was expecting my knee to be badly swollen today, somewhat to my surprise there's no visible swelling.  Guess I got off fairly lightly.