Broken foot bone and stuff..
Jul. 12th, 2005 11:11 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
katsarisWell, I've had news for the past two weeks -- but at the same time these past weeks I was in one of my occasional no-chatting, no-livejournaling, no-emailing moods. *g* Not that the mood has entirely passed, so don't expect this to be a very long entry.
Anyway, normally I should be in Samos right now, my regular unit for the next several months. But instead I'm on sick leave 'till the end of the month.
A month or so back, during my last couple days in Corinth, we had one of our usual long marches to "Examilia", the shooting range. As usual it was exhausting just to walk there. This time though, after a while, my right foot also started hurting me whenever I put pressure on it. By the time we reached there (and even more so by the time we got back) each step was a pain and I'm limping.
I went to the doctor's there later that same day but back then they only gave me some pills for the pain and some sort of ointment-thingy (sorry English medical terminology escapes me) for the swelling.
Next couple days, foot still hurt whenever I step, but less so. After a few days more the pain starts appearing only after I have walked a while. I think it's improving and am letting it go.
But two weeks after, the pain still existed and didn't seem to improve any more -- if I walked for a few minutes I was always starting to limp again. So finally I figured something's wrong that won't go away by itself, I ask to go to the doctor's again, and they send me for x-rays. They found "third metatarsal bone" in the right foot was "stress-fractured". Put me in the hospital for a day then gave 30 days sick-leave. 18 of these I'm entitled to, the other 12 I'll have to serve in addition. (Ugh)
This whole thing is annoying mainly because I'll have to go to Samos by myself at the end of the month (if all goes well and they don't tell me I'll need to stay out of it for more time), rather than with a group of fellow soldiers.
The main silver lining is that I'll be here when the new Harry Potter comes out this Saturday, and be able to read it in leisure. I'm thinking of doing a chapter-by-chapter comment thingy as I've enjoyed seeing others do with previous books. :-)
I got a brief dial-up connection for the time I'm here, since I had cancelled my ADSL connection and account a while back.
Bored out of my mind to a large extent, but I did get to read the Dark Materials trilogy of Phillip Pullman. Finished it today and found it so-and-so. More comments on later post.
In fact I'll probably get to do some more book-reviewing posts in the next couple days. To get back into the whole internet communicative mood, I'll probably try to do one of these per day, till HP comes out.
Anyway, normally I should be in Samos right now, my regular unit for the next several months. But instead I'm on sick leave 'till the end of the month.
A month or so back, during my last couple days in Corinth, we had one of our usual long marches to "Examilia", the shooting range. As usual it was exhausting just to walk there. This time though, after a while, my right foot also started hurting me whenever I put pressure on it. By the time we reached there (and even more so by the time we got back) each step was a pain and I'm limping.
I went to the doctor's there later that same day but back then they only gave me some pills for the pain and some sort of ointment-thingy (sorry English medical terminology escapes me) for the swelling.
Next couple days, foot still hurt whenever I step, but less so. After a few days more the pain starts appearing only after I have walked a while. I think it's improving and am letting it go.
But two weeks after, the pain still existed and didn't seem to improve any more -- if I walked for a few minutes I was always starting to limp again. So finally I figured something's wrong that won't go away by itself, I ask to go to the doctor's again, and they send me for x-rays. They found "third metatarsal bone" in the right foot was "stress-fractured". Put me in the hospital for a day then gave 30 days sick-leave. 18 of these I'm entitled to, the other 12 I'll have to serve in addition. (Ugh)
This whole thing is annoying mainly because I'll have to go to Samos by myself at the end of the month (if all goes well and they don't tell me I'll need to stay out of it for more time), rather than with a group of fellow soldiers.
The main silver lining is that I'll be here when the new Harry Potter comes out this Saturday, and be able to read it in leisure. I'm thinking of doing a chapter-by-chapter comment thingy as I've enjoyed seeing others do with previous books. :-)
I got a brief dial-up connection for the time I'm here, since I had cancelled my ADSL connection and account a while back.
Bored out of my mind to a large extent, but I did get to read the Dark Materials trilogy of Phillip Pullman. Finished it today and found it so-and-so. More comments on later post.
In fact I'll probably get to do some more book-reviewing posts in the next couple days. To get back into the whole internet communicative mood, I'll probably try to do one of these per day, till HP comes out.