{"id":313,"date":"2005-08-23T00:14:50","date_gmt":"2005-08-23T05:14:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.xorph.com\/creator\/2005\/08\/23\/conflict\/"},"modified":"2005-08-23T00:14:50","modified_gmt":"2005-08-23T05:14:50","slug":"conflict","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/2005\/08\/23\/conflict\/","title":{"rendered":"Conflict."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I hate my crutches like <span title=\"Dammit, I did it AGAIN.\">magnetic north hates&#8230;  other magnetic north.<\/span>  They are a pain and an endless-conversation curse, and I can&#8217;t walk ten feet without sweating.  I have raw places on my sides from where they rub through three layers of cloth.  They&#8217;re borrowed from Maria&#8217;s mom, so I will return them eventually with a smile and a thank-you; otherwise I&#8217;d snap them, burn them, sow their fields with salt yea look ye mighty &#038;c.<\/p>\n<p>But I&#8217;ve been using them for less than two weeks and I&#8217;ve visibly lost weight and gained muscle mass.  Upper-body muscle mass, as much as I&#8217;ve had in my entire life.<\/p>\n<p>My uncle Jerome recommended staying on the things for four weeks, absolute minimum two weeks.  I <i>really<\/i> want to get rid of them come Wednesday night.  But the huge blood-pool bruise on the side of my foot isn&#8217;t gone yet, and I don&#8217;t want to screw this up and compound my tendonitis, and I like weighing less and having triceps.<\/p>\n<p>The two things I&#8217;m really worried about are my hands, which never stop hurting even after Epsom-salt soaks and hours of rest.  The pain when I first pick up the crutches is worse every morning.  Working at a keyboard every day occasionally gives me carpal-tunnely twinges; those have become more frequent since I started using the crutches.  The fear is obvious.<\/p>\n<p>I know I won&#8217;t work out after I start walking normally again.  I don&#8217;t want my ankle to heal badly.  I hate being slow and painful and not being able to carry things.  I don&#8217;t want carpal tunnel.<\/p>\n<p>Conflict.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I hate my crutches like magnetic north hates&#8230; other magnetic north. They are a pain and an endless-conversation curse, and I can&#8217;t walk ten feet without sweating. I have raw places on my sides from where they rub through three layers of cloth. They&#8217;re borrowed from Maria&#8217;s mom, so I will return them eventually with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,69],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-313","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-angst","category-exertion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/313","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=313"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/313\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=313"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=313"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=313"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}