My month of hell
Posted: Tue Mar 24, 2009 11:40 am
Here's a life long tip for you:
Don't tear your Achilles tendon AND your calf muscle at the same time!
Just in case you didn't get that:
Don't tear your Achilles tendon AND your calf muscle at the same time!
In fact, I may just go so far as to say don't tear either of them at all, no, really, don't do it.
Unless of course you like laying on your back for at least a month with your leg elevated watching daytime tv. It was okay for a day and then I actually watched some daytime tv and I don't know what it's like where you are but I am sure that daytime tv in the UK is in violation of EU regulations on human rights. Honestly, my first experience of 'Diagnosis Murder' was like a UFO abduction - one moment it was on and the next I had lost 1 hour of time with absolutely no recollection of what had happened during that time. When this happened for a second time I came to the conclusion that my brain was involuntarily shutting down in order to minimize the long term damage that this tv show could do. Don't even get me started on 'Murder she wrote'. Actually, it's kind of ironic that both shows have a common theme of murder because eventually they make you lose the will to live which to me is a kind of murder.
Then there's the isolation. Having to keep your leg elevated means not going anywhere - for a month. It drives you nuts. It gets that the only company you have is the tv so you turn it and oooo.. look: Diagnosis Murder!
You may have come across the Karma-sutra but I now present you with the Coder-sutra. No, clean out that mind with bleach, this is not a book filled with naked pictures of coders (trust me on this - I had to share a room with Mark in Tivoli. Not a pretty sight, in fact I had regular bouts of that UFO time loss phenomenon again) but rather a series of poses that can be used to continue coding if you have damaged a limb or two.
One thing that fell by the way-side was Xiotex. Unfortunately if my laptop starts showing any kind of prolonged 3D then it heats up enough to keep a familly of 8 warm in a large barn. I didn't fancy frying my love-spuds so I didn't do any work on it. Time will tell if I ever get around to it again I did make a flash game though: http://www.xiotexstudios.com/Games/Arena3000.html
Work wise I managed to act upon my genius marketing idea for Darwinia+ which really meant that spent the last month learning all about wordpress template design and then coding up the site in PHP/CSS/XHTML. In fact I call upon all of the Introversion fans out there to help us out and spread this site around - our financial future could depend on it: http://www.introversion.co.uk/darwiniaplus/
Anyway - tomorrow is yet another appointment at the hospital. Hopefully they will discharge me and I can get back to work...
Oh and one more person tells me that pain means it's healing will experience a new involuntary action I have been developing.
Don't tear your Achilles tendon AND your calf muscle at the same time!
Just in case you didn't get that:
Don't tear your Achilles tendon AND your calf muscle at the same time!
In fact, I may just go so far as to say don't tear either of them at all, no, really, don't do it.
Unless of course you like laying on your back for at least a month with your leg elevated watching daytime tv. It was okay for a day and then I actually watched some daytime tv and I don't know what it's like where you are but I am sure that daytime tv in the UK is in violation of EU regulations on human rights. Honestly, my first experience of 'Diagnosis Murder' was like a UFO abduction - one moment it was on and the next I had lost 1 hour of time with absolutely no recollection of what had happened during that time. When this happened for a second time I came to the conclusion that my brain was involuntarily shutting down in order to minimize the long term damage that this tv show could do. Don't even get me started on 'Murder she wrote'. Actually, it's kind of ironic that both shows have a common theme of murder because eventually they make you lose the will to live which to me is a kind of murder.
Then there's the isolation. Having to keep your leg elevated means not going anywhere - for a month. It drives you nuts. It gets that the only company you have is the tv so you turn it and oooo.. look: Diagnosis Murder!
You may have come across the Karma-sutra but I now present you with the Coder-sutra. No, clean out that mind with bleach, this is not a book filled with naked pictures of coders (trust me on this - I had to share a room with Mark in Tivoli. Not a pretty sight, in fact I had regular bouts of that UFO time loss phenomenon again) but rather a series of poses that can be used to continue coding if you have damaged a limb or two.
One thing that fell by the way-side was Xiotex. Unfortunately if my laptop starts showing any kind of prolonged 3D then it heats up enough to keep a familly of 8 warm in a large barn. I didn't fancy frying my love-spuds so I didn't do any work on it. Time will tell if I ever get around to it again I did make a flash game though: http://www.xiotexstudios.com/Games/Arena3000.html
Work wise I managed to act upon my genius marketing idea for Darwinia+ which really meant that spent the last month learning all about wordpress template design and then coding up the site in PHP/CSS/XHTML. In fact I call upon all of the Introversion fans out there to help us out and spread this site around - our financial future could depend on it: http://www.introversion.co.uk/darwiniaplus/
Anyway - tomorrow is yet another appointment at the hospital. Hopefully they will discharge me and I can get back to work...
Oh and one more person tells me that pain means it's healing will experience a new involuntary action I have been developing.