I wasn’t going to post anything further about my stupid foot, but events took an unexpected turn, this week. Originally, you might remember, I was tasked with only having to wear the thing for three weeks. At the start of this ostensibly final week, however, I got in touch with my podiatrist to check in and he suggested that I should “stick with it for another week.” I was initially going to respond as to where he could stick it, but calmed down and thought better of it. I mean, after wearing it for 21 days, what’s another seven, right? It’s not that big of a deal.
Since last addressing the subject here, I’ve also started the “bone stimulation” treatments, which are in no manner as exciting as they might sound. It’s basically a little electronic device that I hook up to a strap around the “problem area” on my foot. I smear a little of this translucent jelly on its accompanying “transducer,” clip that into the strap and then sit with it for twenty minutes, ideally once a day. The device counts down the minutes, but I’ll be damned if I can feel it actually doing anything. I’m supposed to do that for about a month. We’ll see what happens.
Beyond all that bullshit, it’s pretty much business as usual. I’m not walking to work, during this phase, rather I’m taking the subway. While this is arguably less strain on the foot, it does mean humping it up and down a few flights of stairs, every morning, which is no fucking picnic. But, y’know, needs must.
I’m just really focussed on wrapping this up and moving forward, but the novelty has truly warn off. In terms of this blog, being that I’m not spending nearly as much time as I normally do walking these New York City streets, I’m not fielding the usual daily onslaught of random stimuli that regularly prompt any number of stupid entries I’d be posting here. Riding the R train four stops downtown and four stops back uptown just doesn’t inspire me in the same way. As such, I don’t have too much to share, at the moment, beyond frustrated banalities.
Watch this space.
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