I had expected this gall for days. Prior to my foot surgery next week, I was to receive a call from an intake nurse who would ask me several questions about my medical history (past and current), to make sure I was healthy enough for surgery (ha ha, healthy enough for surgery – if I…
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It doesn’t stand for Advance 1 Chuck…
Flashback. Last November, while I sat in a hospital bed trying to figure out what happened to my foot (spoiler alert: it’s broken), I received even more distressing news. My diabetes – which I thought I had kept under control – was completely out of whack. And one of the biggest offenders … was my…
Read MoreFlannel sheets to put me to warm sleep
I haven’t had a good night’s sleep in a while. Mostly I think it’s because of my injury; other times I think it’s because of my emotional state. I need a change. So yesterday I drove over to Colonie Center, as I had a $10 gift card from L.L. Bean to burn off. The gift…
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The routine
Status update. Thanks to this walking boot on my left foot, most of the broken bones in my foot are mending. Slowly but surely. I say most of my bones. Not all of them. The third metatarsal bone, which is somewhere in the middle of my foot, has snapped in two. It’s not a break. …
Read MoreThe clear thought at I-787
Ugh. Rainy Saturday morning. Normally, I take my laundry to a wash-and-fold place in Watervliet, but since their prices recently increased, I found a different wash-and-fold place in Albany at the Hannaford Plaza. One basket of clothes later, I was on my way. Normally I have two ways of leaving the Town and Village of…
Read MoreWould you take my place at Equinox tomorrow?
I thought I could battle through this. I thought that by now, everything would be fine – or at least reasonably so. But that isn’t the case. And now I need to ask your help. Background. For the last decade, I’ve been in line at the crack of Thursday morning at the Empire State Plaza,…
Read MoreJ-Mac: Running from Philadelphia to Boston
How many of us have had a dream, a goal, a shining fantastical moment that we hope will come true? All of us have. And if I can take a moment from my blog to get personal, let me share this. This morning, my best bud Jeremy McNamara – my trivia teammate and long-time good…
Read MoreWD-40 really does clean toilets! Wow!!
It’s part of bachelor life. You have to take care of yourself and you have to complete your daily tasks and chores. You do your own laundry, you buy your own groceries, you clean your own home. No one else will do it for you. And with that, you also have to tackle cleaning your…
Read MoreGotta love the Burger King drive-through
So yeah, if it weren’t for bad luck I’d have no luck at all. Last Friday, I drove home from one of my doctor’s appointments. I’m hungry as anything, and I’m already in pain from my left foot being completely wrecked. I need some comfort food. Nothing major, maybe a chicken sandwich and a diet…
Read MoreLiz Frank and the Frankenboot
I don’t know when it started. I don’t know if it started and I never knew it. But Friday night, I was in the emergency room. My foot was throbbing in pain. I could barely walk on it. And all the times I thought it might be something else – a blood clot, an infection,…
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