Sushi
I just had some for dinner, from a nearby takeout place. First time in over a year. Yummy!
shareYeah, after two weeks home with a broken leg, I broke down and got doordash. Nepalese food, bagels, and yeah - SUSHI!!!
shareOuch, sorry to hear about the broken leg. But it's great that we can start doing more normal things again. I've been semi-quarantined from last March up until my second vaccine shot. What a bummer that was!
shareWell, I was never locked down, as my job is super-duper "essential". I spent the last year working extra hours and being stressed out of my gourd, so my personal home lockdown came at a time when it's practically welcome!
The break never hurt as much as I thought it would and the doctor says I'm recovering unusually fast, even though I'm fat and old. So thanks for your concern, but I'm as fine as a person with a broken leg can be!
My isolation was voluntary; I'm old enough and have health issues such that COVID could have been a disaster for me if I had caught it. I wasn't completely locked down or anything, but avoided unnecessary interactions with people and was fanatical about disinfecting, wearing masks, et cetera.
Good that the leg is healing fast. I've had several broken bones over the years. Even at best, the pain sucks.
I was surprised that the leg didn't hurt more, I slipped on some gravel while hiking and broke and ankle, and the doctor and I were able to get the hiking boot off of my foot without any morphine. The pain was only bad during the "reduction" (wrestling match) and right after the surgery, other than that it's been perfectly tolerable.
Anyway, my last year sucked, I was working in a job that was essential and high-risk, where the protections weren't always adequate. I have a good immune system, few risk factors, and good powers of recovery (just confirmed by my doc), so I wasn't as worried for myself as some would be, but the least year has been hellishly stressful. Some of my co-workers have been having stress-related health problems, but most have hung in there because the job really needed doing. Still, if there was ever a good time for a broken leg, this was it!
The worst injury I've ever had was a broken back. The swelling around the injury site would sometimes hit the sciatic nerve, and when that happened it felt like a 500 volt shock running through my hip and leg. I had some high powered painkillers, Lortabs, but those don't knock out the pain altogether, they just reduce it to the point where it's bearable.
Other than that, I've got a knee I wrecked in a whitewater canoeing accident about forty years ago, mild TMJ on one side, and a few other things. Pain and I are old acquaintances, and I've developed a pretty high tolerance for it.
My sympathies, because chronic pain is the worst, there are no good options there.
For myself, I have a good pain tolerance, as long as I know the pain is temporary. Broken leg like this one, no problem! Beats the hell out of a back injury that won't go away.
How did you break your leg?
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