In Anchorage, with no feet

[missroserose]

I'm here in Anchorage over the long weekend, visiting my mother and her boyfriend Steve. I'm a bit disappointed - part of the reason I wanted to come here was because I wanted to take Brian hiking at a couple of really lovely spots I used to like visiting when I was younger (Thunderbird Falls, McHugh Creek) - he even brought his incredibly expensive camera along. Unfortunately, it doesn't look like we'll be able to do much of that. I've been having some issues with my ankles being sore and not working properly; I think I must've overdone it on Wii Fit for a little too long, and for several days they've been swollen and probably sprained. They felt like they were getting better on Thursday, but I guess the compression changes on the airplane exacerbated them, because when I got off I could barely walk, and it took some pretty serious icing to get the swelling down. So now I'm off walking for the next few days, and Sunday we'll be flying back. I guess we can go hiking another trip.

Other than the ankle thing, life's been pretty good. I lost my cell phone at the movie theater a week or so ago; after repeated attempts to get in touch with them, I'm just giving it up. I can get the number and minutes transferred to a new phone without too much trouble, and it's not like it was an expensive phone, anyway. Hooray for prepaid phones. Boo to the crappy service at movie theaters in Juneau, but that's nothing new.

We took Mum and Steve to see WALL-E at the really nice theater here in Anchorage, and a fun time was had by all. Very, very good movie - although in many ways it's one of the most chilling dystopian horror flicks I've ever seen. One of those potential futures that's so scary because it's so easy to see happening. I like to think that humanity as a whole is smart enough to avoid it, but...you just never know, I guess. Especially where people are involved.

Amusing moment from last night - roundabout 2 AM, my ankles were swelling again and getting pretty seriously painful. Brian, being the trouper of a boyfriend that he is, got up and made his way to my mum's kitchen to look for painkillers. He comes back and reports that she has "all manner of things in bottles, but not one ibuprofen." Fortunately we got them wrapped in ice, which actually did a pretty good job of reducing the pain. After getting them wrapped up and elevated, he goes back upstairs. I hear him puttering about with liquids, and he comes back with some iced tea and says in his groggy I-don't-want-to-be-awake-right-now voice: "Imagine my surprise that your mother has no vodka." Yay for parents in the hippy-dippy all-natural health-food herbal-supplement phase of life.

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[my-aerie.livejournal.com]

I read this much before getting distracted:

Amusing moment from last night - roundabout 2 AM, my ankles were swelling again and getting pretty seriously painful.


...You confused me. :P

[roseneko.livejournal.com]

Well, it might've been funny from an outside point of view - the way I was whimpering and writhing under the covers, I probably looked like I was getting some pretty serious lovin'.

[errant-variable.livejournal.com]

hmm, the engorged ankles and eventually binding them - and the ice - could get pretty graphic. I hope no young children read this blog. Tsk.

If you haven't already, Ace bandage them up pretty tightly when you might be using them - the extra support and keeping things lined up helps A Lot.

[roseneko.livejournal.com]

Mum got me a couple of splints for doing just that. Between that and staying off of them, things are better, if still not 100%.

And any young children reading this blog would likely be bored senseless long before they came across anything graphic. :P

[alexmegami]

Ahhh, my mother is in hippy-dippy health food days of her life, but we still have pretty much a wall unit worth of red wine, and she will never run out of Grand Marnier. :P She's not so much for the vodka though.

[roseneko.livejournal.com]

Lucky. My mother's always been a teetotaler, so that's not unique to this stage of her life. The lack of any kind of painkiller, though...yeesh.

[alexmegami]

Yeah, that's pretty rough. *hugs you*