Hey, I've got my new boots on and suddenly everything is alright...

Big thank you to my aunt, who express posted her AirCast boot down from the mountains and saved me in excess of $250 (and to the physio at Woden Valley Hospital (you know the one) who gave me free wedges and a air pump and let me use his phone to call my sister rather than paying at the public phones).

So now am clumping instead of crutching. Looks like a robot foot - almost makes me wish I was working with kids at the moment. What with a robot foot and the ability to blow up stuff and make slime, I would be the coolest adult EVER!

Which leads me to think of some of the other benefits to rupturing your achilles tendon:

• It cuts down on the amount of tea/coffee you can drink unless you are prepared to stand on one leg next to the kettle and skull. It's incredibly hard to carry hot beverages on one leg. I wouldn't recommend trying it, just trust me. It doesn't end well. While this may not seem like a benefit, it's probably a good thing for someone who would otherwise be continually drinking the stuff. Continually.
• The bath vs shower argument gets tipped toward the bath side.
• Instead of chasing after other people, they have to come and get things off you so you have a legitimate reason for telling people where to go.

Achilles and his tendon

Been without internet for a while after injuring myself in the competitive maelstrom that is Thursday night Social Netball and sitting at home, unable to move. Turns out I'd ruptured my achille's tendon - to fix it, they cut a slit in the back of your calf, gather all the destroyed muscle fibres together and then reattach them back to where they should be. Sounds more painful than it actually was.

Thought I'd do a bit of research before my operation (knowledge being power and all that) and found the statistic that men are 20 times more likely to rupture their achille's than women. That means in a room of 100 people with ruptured achilles, on average only five of them would be female.

Not sure what that really means - I suspect a genetic weakness in my family, seeing how my brother ruptured his achilles playing cricket, my other brother has had continuous problems with shoulders and my cousin had a knee reconstruction in his early 20's... I was doomed from birth.