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@jon-nyc thank you!!

@AndyD how are your fingers?

Wow, contrast bathing for the win! I've been doing this twice a day for almost a week now. It definitely helps with pain reduction, but also I think it's really helping the bruising clear out.

I had an appt with my physical therapist today (for my other foot) so I keep that, but she looked at my bad foot (and I showed a photo from a week ago) and she was very impressed with the bruise fading.

She also agreed that it's a real shame that the doctor I saw didn't suggest it.

She explain that hands and feet don't really have muscles the way other parts of the body do. It's the muscles that help blood flow, so hands and feet need some extra help to improve circulation, which is what the contrast bathing does. She said she thinks it's much more impactful than icing alone.

I have a follow up with a physician next week for my broken toe, so hopefully they will take another x-ray. I'm keen to be cleared to do more exercise, like the exercise bike.

I misread this as

Wow @Steve-Miller that looks like a lot of work but with beautiful potential! We had winter camellias in our house in the south, they were beautiful! The leaves are waxier than rhododendrons, IIRC (we had those too).

And ivy, we had that too, in the back and sides. It looked nice but always made me nervous. I'm glad we don't have any here. (yet! knock on wood and all that)

@wtg re MTG’s comments, that description seems about right.
Time will tell, of course.

If she’s not interested in a future presidential run, IOW if there’s not some larger agenda, then her resignation just looks like immaturity to me.

My mother is here and will come and we invited some friends, so a crowd of 6.

Whole turkey, stuffing and sides, the traditional stuff!

@wtg said in Has Marjorie Taylor Greene ...:

@ShiroKuro That’s the impression I got listening to her announcement on X, the one linked in the article I posted. She sounded like a candidate for President

Yuck.

Maybe she’ll pick Erica Kirk as her running mate …

Greene’s resignation from her seat could set the stage for her to seek to replace Trump in the White House in the 2028 election, and possibly become the next leader of the MAGA movement once he exits political life.

So is that the real reason?

@CHAS said in This month's piano recording:

may have to wake up the Clavinova that is here

definitely!!

@CHAS said in This month's piano recording:

I like that. Well played. I like your piano.

thank you!!!

@AndyD said in Just my luck…(health update):

Thank you so much for the link, no broken bones just significant and deep swollen bruising, the nail may come off. Treatment looks excellent and easy, and finally a proper use for our twin butler sink.

good luck!!

Also, that carpet looks heavy!!

Re contrast bathing, this morning (after I posted), I took a hot shower, and closed the drain so that the water stayed in the tub and got up to my ankles. So my foot got nice and warm.

Then while I was finishing my morning routine (brushing teeth, fixing hair and make up), I got a tub and filled it with cold water and slowly added ice cubes. Instead of standing at the sink/mirror, I brought a chair into the bathroom and sat for that time, so a little more than 10 minutes.

Not exactly the contrast bathing pattern of back and forth, but it did seem to help, in terms of pain reduction! Tonight I'll try the more "official" back and forth contrast bathing.

Yep, I’m googling around, some places do recommend contrast bathing for feet as well.

It’s interesting to me that the doctor I saw at the walk-in clinic didn’t mention it, or really give me hardly any information about after-care. After they got the x-ray results, he was sort of blasé, like “there’s really nothing we can do for a broken toe.”

But everything I’ve read about lower extremities, and everything I’ve talked about with my physical therapist, says how important circulation is for healing. Why wouldn’t you want people to take a proactive approach if there’s something that can make a difference over the course of their injury recovery?

My physical therapist also says I’m one of the most proactive patients she’s ever had, so maybe it’s me that’s out of sync??

@AndyD its called contrast bathing!

https://www.cuh.nhs.uk/patient-information/contrast-bathing-for-the-hand-and-wrist/

I’m gonna google and see if anyone talks about it for toes!

@AndyD ooohhh noooooo! I’m so sorry! I bet that’s so painful!

No broken bones?

Have you about … I can’t remember what’s it’s called, hot/cold therapy? You set up two tubs, one with hot water (not scalding hot of course) and one with cold water (maybe two ice cubes but not ice water). Then you go back and forth between the two tubs. There’s advice about how to do it (time length, which to end on).

I actually did that when I fractured my middle finger years ago (while bowling, that was the last time I ever bowled again!) I was living in Japan and got the advice from the doctor. It’s supposed to really promote healing.

I’m thinking I’ll try it with my toe, but more like after maybe a week has passed. Anyway, maybe you could read about that and see if it would help you.

@kluurs said in Just my luck…(health update):

missed a step and broke both legs when he stumbled down a single step.

OMG that's horrible!!!

I was also diagnosed with osteopenia, and I couldn't help but wonder if that contributed to this toe break. Maybe not, it was a pretty hard impact.

@AndyD OMG are you ok? Did this just happen? It sounds incredibly painful!

@Big_Al how are you doing these days?

@AdagioM yikes! Well at least it's just a distant Facebook memory!

Thank you @Marchant and @Big_Al

@Big_Al I love this piano, and that sustain always makes me happy! And thank you for your nice comments about my articulation!

@AdagioM said in This month's piano recording:

are you able to pedal, after your most recent injuries?

So, my long-term problem is with my right foot, but since I got out of the boot, I've been able to pedal -- and the doc even said as long as it doesn't hurt, and esp. because it's not weight-bearing, that the movement of pedaling is good because it encourages blood flow. Luckily!

The foot with this most recent injury is the left foot, which I use to turn pages, and I actually was thinking it's lucky that I made this recording before I broke my toe, because now I can't do page turning for a while.

I sort of think I'll probably be able to do page-turn pedaling before it's fully healed, but I'll wait until my follow up appointment and consult before I try it.

Right now I wouldn't even want to try, I'm sure it would hurt!

But again, luckily that just page-turning.

When my ortho first told me that he suspected I would eventually need surgery, that would be on the right foot, I of course immediately thought about piano. ... 12 weeks of Bach? What else can you play with no pedal??

I can't play anything with no pedal!

@kluurs said in Just my luck…(health update):

Yeah, we're mostly at that point in life where a combination of fragility and coordination make us more prone to injury.

Yeah, I am probably not as robust as I think I am!

@Bernard and @dolmansaxlil thank you!

Congratulations!