{"id":685,"date":"2010-01-24T23:00:00","date_gmt":"2010-01-25T03:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/?p=685"},"modified":"2010-01-24T23:00:00","modified_gmt":"2010-01-25T03:00:00","slug":"broken-ankle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/?p=685","title":{"rendered":"Broken Ankle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/_yytsDp42pSs\/S10FO1RsieI\/AAAAAAAACFg\/LwbQO0gFeIo\/s1600-h\/Ankle1.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer; width: 164px; height: 227px;\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/_yytsDp42pSs\/S10FO1RsieI\/AAAAAAAACFg\/LwbQO0gFeIo\/s320\/Ankle1.jpg?w=584\" alt=\"\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5430502478056294882\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><span style=\"font-family:verdana;\">Sunday afternoon, I was escorting an elderly friend into her home.  Sidewalks were slick with rain.  She began to fall.  I caught her but fell myself.  I broke my right <del>ankle<\/del> <i><a href=\"http:\/\/bootedharleydude.blogspot.com\/2010\/01\/when-helper-needs-help.html\">lower fibula<\/a><\/i>, according to x-rays at the urgent care facility. <\/p>\n<p>I visited  orthopedic specialist on Monday and was told that I have to wait about a week for the swelling to go down before I can get a cast.  No cast, no walking!  I&#8217;m stuck at home for a while.<\/p>\n<p>Fortunately, my elderly friend was not hurt.  My partner is taking good care of this old broken-down one-booted klutz.  TG that I can telecommute.<\/p>\n<p>More later.<\/p>\n<p>Life is short:  even for us klutzes!<br \/><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sunday afternoon, I was escorting an elderly friend into her home. Sidewalks were slick with rain. She began to fall. I caught her but fell myself. I broke my right ankle lower fibula, according to x-rays at the urgent care &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/?p=685\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-685","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-home-life"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/685","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=685"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/685\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=685"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=685"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=685"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}