Bipedal again

I’m low on inspiration tonight. It’s been a while since I did a book review, but the book I’m working on is taking time. It’s not bad, but not great either, plus it’s quite long. And I’ve been catching up on my magazine reading during my breaks at work, rather than hitting the fiction (my magazine load will be lighter in the future; I’m dropping Smithsonian. They’ve been edging leftward, in my estimation, and the age of the internet has provided me alternate sources of obscure information).

I haven’t mentioned yet that I’m off the cane. The doctor told me to keep the weight off the knee, and take anti-inflammatories, for two weeks, then see how it went without visible means of support. And so far it’s going fine, but I’m watching for sudden structural fatigue. I probably won’t be taking any exercise walks until spring. And it would be a good idea (my doctor hinted, oh so diplomatically) if I took off a few pounds.

I did some research on canes, by the way, and learned that there’s a difference between a cane and a walking stick. Canes are an English thing, because the traditional English cane is made of malacca, which is a strong tropical cane. We Americans make our supports out of wood, so we call them walking sticks.

Actually we call them canes, but apparently we shouldn’t.

My cane is made of metal. I’m not sure what I’m supposed to call that. A walking pipe?

4 thoughts on “Bipedal again”

  1. It’s been a while since I did a book review, but the book I’m working on is taking time.

    I’d rather read your books than your book reviews. What are you working on, if it is not a secret? Another Erling book?

  2. A shaleighlah? A roundsword? A +15 club of might? \

    As for inspiration, St. Boniface, Yggsdrasil and the First Christmas Tree. Right down your alley.

  3. Ori: I’m working on a short story right now, at a rather leisurely pace. I have three finished novels pretty much ready to go, if there’s any interest in publishing them. But it’s iffy whether it will happen.

  4. Amazing what we do….

    I too suffer from arthritis in both knees…Left being the most severe. I was doing pretty well until my pastor slapped me on the back one night after a corporate prayer meeting…. I braced myself on my left leg, putting lots of pressure on the knee which gave out and I landed on the floor with great pain in the knee.

    After seeing the doc, I used an aluminum crutch for weeks, which amazingly helped reduce the pain.

    I also take arthritis pills from Wally World drug store which also help.

    My doc also, not so politely, told me to lose weight. But don’t walk too much on knee and don’t use gym equipment that rotates the knee….

    So, what’s a guy to do, heh?

    Well, one thing I did was drop Smithsonian too…but that’s not helping improve my knee any……

    So, I hope you continue to recover and get as good as gold… that way I can be a positive copy-cat… not a negative one…

    Such a deal, heh?

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