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shadesofmauve) wrote2013-09-20 02:53 pm
shadesofmauve) wrote2013-09-20 02:53 pm
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The fourth X
One of Erik's favorite comedy bits is from Steven Wright Tom Waits, who did a bit about seeing a sign advertising "GIRLS XXXX!" and wondering once the fourth X could possible mean -- more revealing than total nudity? Girls with no SKIN?
Hell yeah. Mmmhmm. Baby.
[EDIT: I misattributed the line! It's from Tom Waits, not Steven Wright. Erik more frequently quotes Wright, and I got confused.]
I went to a podiatry appointment today (I was on the verge of scheduling an ortho one, realized it was almost certainly soft tissue damage, and went back to the original plan), and the highlight was the X-rays. I've had a lot of Xrays taken -- I still glow slightly -- but I don't remember ever seeing one of my foot from the top down.* I thought they were pretty cool, so when the appointment was done I asked for copies, and got 'em all on a CD! :D
So, for those of you who may be medically curious (*cough* Stasia *cough*), here's my XXXX picture, the most intimate photo I expect you'll ever see of me on the net:
I knew I had fused bones, naturally, but I never realized how bizarrely tiny the middle toe bones are. They're so dainty they're almost not there! Given that, it would be totally, ridiculously easy for me to have gotten a stress fracture in that bone, and for it to feel like a big toe problem -- but that didn't happen. Which means is a soft tissue injury, which is what I thought all along, and given that I'm slightly insane and actually like to USE my feet, I've now been stuck with a rather horrendous needle and had a dose of steroid/analgesic poured into the area, and we'll see what happens over the next two weeks. The injection was... deeply unpleasant. But riding home up my hill without feeling pain every time I had to press into the peddle was sure a nice change.
I have pics of my left foot, too, because it's their standard procedure to do comparative shots. I tried telling the nurse/assistant that no one was going to get anywhere with comparative shots of my feet, but SOP is SOP. So I have pretty Xrays of the normal foot, too!
Comparison pics:
Look, a foot!
Yes, that foot definitely has fewer moving parts, alright.
Sadly for the curiousity of the internet viewing public, all the vast multitude of X-rays taken when I had shitloads of metal in my leg were old school, on film, and I don't have any idea what happened with the one set I got to keep. Ah well.
*It's probable they were taken when I was small and I just don't remember. I didn't have any as a teen because all the operations were on my lower leg, so the focus was higher up.
Hell yeah. Mmmhmm. Baby.
[EDIT: I misattributed the line! It's from Tom Waits, not Steven Wright. Erik more frequently quotes Wright, and I got confused.]
I went to a podiatry appointment today (I was on the verge of scheduling an ortho one, realized it was almost certainly soft tissue damage, and went back to the original plan), and the highlight was the X-rays. I've had a lot of Xrays taken -- I still glow slightly -- but I don't remember ever seeing one of my foot from the top down.* I thought they were pretty cool, so when the appointment was done I asked for copies, and got 'em all on a CD! :D
So, for those of you who may be medically curious (*cough* Stasia *cough*), here's my XXXX picture, the most intimate photo I expect you'll ever see of me on the net:
I knew I had fused bones, naturally, but I never realized how bizarrely tiny the middle toe bones are. They're so dainty they're almost not there! Given that, it would be totally, ridiculously easy for me to have gotten a stress fracture in that bone, and for it to feel like a big toe problem -- but that didn't happen. Which means is a soft tissue injury, which is what I thought all along, and given that I'm slightly insane and actually like to USE my feet, I've now been stuck with a rather horrendous needle and had a dose of steroid/analgesic poured into the area, and we'll see what happens over the next two weeks. The injection was... deeply unpleasant. But riding home up my hill without feeling pain every time I had to press into the peddle was sure a nice change.
I have pics of my left foot, too, because it's their standard procedure to do comparative shots. I tried telling the nurse/assistant that no one was going to get anywhere with comparative shots of my feet, but SOP is SOP. So I have pretty Xrays of the normal foot, too!
Comparison pics:
Look, a foot!
Yes, that foot definitely has fewer moving parts, alright.
Sadly for the curiousity of the internet viewing public, all the vast multitude of X-rays taken when I had shitloads of metal in my leg were old school, on film, and I don't have any idea what happened with the one set I got to keep. Ah well.
*It's probable they were taken when I was small and I just don't remember. I didn't have any as a teen because all the operations were on my lower leg, so the focus was higher up.
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(by which I mean next time I get hip X-rays done I'm totally dumping them on Tumblr. Other people's bones are cool!)
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I'm considering putting the right foot pic on tumblr, too. 'Cause bones are cool, even when they're not built at all correctly and you're not sure how they've managed to stay in one piece this long. Looking forward to your hip pics! :P
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/veternarian cut off in the bud stage
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But! Basically, I was born with the foot you see above (and it's hard to tell in the pic, but my left foot is size 8.5/9 ish, and my right is like... child's 1.5 or 2 -- which is bigger than child's 13, but not *quite* to adult women's sizes. it's very confusing), and a right leg shorter than the left. It started only a tiny bit shorter, foot a tiny smaller, but the growth rates were different. Had limb lengthening - distraction orthogenesis -- on my lower leg when I was 13, which took almost a year and requires two big surgeries. IIRC that got me 7 cms; I was *almost* back to even, and could wear shoes without lifts, but the growth rate was still different -- now I'm at a difference of about 1 5/8". Had a few more surgeries to deal with a slightly out of whack knee joint (oh, right knee is missing the ACL, too). But I haven't had anything major done since I was 16.
Wow, that was a briefer paragraph than I expected. Being able to point and say "WEIRD FOOT LIKE THAT" is awfully helpful!
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Also, braces, oh dear. That's great! Now I'm REALLY curious! I already know what an Xray of a metal leg frame looks like with ornaments on it... :P