Subj : weather To : Nancy Backus From : Barry Martin Date : Sat May 02 2020 07:48:00 Hi Nancy! NB>>> When it's a clean break, and no ligament tears, keeping it immobilized NB>>> in a boot can be enough once healing starts... Another friend at NB>>> church broke his ankle shortly after I broke mine, and he was able to NB>>> walk on his much sooner than I or Barb were... BM>> Lots of variables (as always). Closest I've done is sprain/strain my BM>> ankles and pretty much able to hobble on them immediately. Of course BM>> the boney supporting structure was intact, just the wrappings holding BM>> together was damaged. NB>> And had it been a bad enough sprain/strain, you might have had to NB>> reduce how much weight-bearing you gave it anyway.... BM> I did use a walking stick that night -- 'had' to go out for a birthday BM> party. Well, the only thing wrong was a tender and fat ankle! I did BM> avoid slopes: steps were safer as usually had a railing to hang on to. NB> Railings can be very useful things to help stabilize.... ;) Definitely! And sort of a tangent: I remember a couple of the construction guys walking down the ladder from the still-open second floor (being built) to the ground -- upright, no hands, like walking down a hill. I think to me was approaching amazing because my stability isn't that great, plus the ladder was bouncing a bit. BM> (Was before having a cane and the one person we knew with a cane we BM> couldn't get a hold of until the next day.) NB> Canes and walking sticks are pretty close to being the same NB> thing, though.... A quad cane is a little more stable than NB> either, though... This walking stick was the kind without the handle: essentially just a thick dowel. Think it was made out of plastic as was light; borrowed from a friend we were going out to dinner with. NB> Or just be oblivious.... ;) Now we shouldn't be getting snow, NB> except as a rogue storm, though...... :) A friend of mine, NB> stuck in Florida for now, was telling me that a Facebook friend NB> of hers up here was telling her that we're to be getting snow NB> this next week.... I really don't believe it, since the week out NB> forecast is for highs in the upper 50s and the lows in the 40s... NB> :) I did see, though, on the nationwide discussion that the NB> upper Rockies were going to be getting some snow... maybe the NB> friend confused Rochester with Rockies... they do start with the NB> same three letters.... Or maybe it was a late April Fools NB> joke... ;) Or maybe watching the news on the DVR and had forgotten to erase and old showing! ...I like your consideration better! When I was working people were 'always' getting Iowa and Ohio mixed up when we were calling in for a repair, etc. I got in the habit of saying "Iowa - I A" which gave them correct two-letter state abbreviation to enter in their on- screen form, plus sort of a subtle trigger if they're thinking 'Ohio' the 'IA' abbreviation doens't make sense. Anyway, here it also appears we're done with snow for this season. Supposed to get into the mid-70's today. Next week and possibly into the following week they indicated the overnight lows could be in the upper 20's. The TV meteorologist commented about even being a really nice day to plant flowers don't do it until after Mother's Day. ¯ ® ¯ Barry_Martin_3@ ® ¯ @Q.COM ® ¯ ® .... "Caring for your Flower Garden" by Phil and Rhoda Dendron --- MultiMail/Win32 v0.47 þ wcECHO 4.2 ÷ ILink: The Safe BBS þ Bettendorf, IA --- QScan/PCB v1.20a / 01-0462 * Origin: ILink: CFBBS | cfbbs.no-ip.com | 856-933-7096 (454:1/1) .