Sunday, December 7, 2008

The Dinner

Saturday was the dinner that I have been nervous about for the past few weeks. I'm not going to go into too much detail here (I will save that for an email), but lets just say that there were many surprises, lots of nausea, and (thus) lots of imbibed alcohol. I'll give the focal points: the whole team was there (surprise #1, achieving highest level of nausea); after dinner we moved on to another venue for some more talking/drinking (and it was actually a REALLY nice venue at that...); it lasted 5 hours. The rest is email material.

On Sunday I did my longest consecutive run ever: 2 hours!!! (Actually I stopped once after 105 minutes for one minute because I had just run up a monkey load of stairs and my legs were really tired so I stretched briefly, but other than that (and one brief bathroom break), no stopping! My legs are still sore. I went home after that and did almost none of the things that I had planned to do for the remainder of the day, so I think I am going to have to forego Korean today to get some of those things done (unfortunately) :(. But I am very proud of myself to have surpassed the 2-hour mark!

Current typing speed: 37 wpm (left-handed). Goal by the end of December: 50wpm.
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Unknown said...

Wow, I leave you alone for a little while so I can study for finals (which are still coming up) and you're knocking down kids and putting men in inevitable but arguably socially awkward situations. Well I suppose you're you. I must say I am impressed by your continued desire to live life in the superlative. It's not enough to type 37 words, you must improve. It's not enough to just relax, you must have rock hard abs, etc, etc...

That being said my natural inclination is for you to just listen to the doc and relax a few weeks. But since you're you I did look into this and found some papers indicating that people with injuries similar to you had excellent or satisfactory (zero unsatisfactory) results with some waterproof cast brands. You can ask you're doctor about
1.Johnson & Johnson Delta-Rol cast padding (Johnson & Johnson Professional, Inc, Raynham, MA,
about halfway down this webpage http://www.collinssports.com/products/searchResults.asp?lc=SH&sec=96&searchText=&all=1

or 2) Gore-Tex fabric Procel cast liner (WL Gore & Associates, Inc, Flagstaff, AZ)

Both will repel water. Naturally you should talk to the doctor about the concussive effect of swimming on healing. Alternatively you could just put something over the cast (like a drypro cast protector) but in the even the damn bag fails you run the risk of cellulitis, so the above options are a better bet.

Look, I hope this helps a little. I need to get back to work.

Alex

December 9, 2008 at 9:23 PM

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