Yea verily, she be frozen in the ice. Arr.

No-one in Atlanta was going much of anywhere
on Saturday ... it was locked down from pretty
much morning to evening under a drizzle of
freezing rain.

So why was it much easier to get work done on
my class outlines on Sunday, when I was free to
indulge in distractions such as going out to
dinner with friends? I'd say I easily got
twice as much done on Sunday than I did on
Saturday, when it was just me, a stack of AI
textbooks, and my word processor.

Perhaps my brain needed more incubating. Or
maybe I work better under pressure. Or maybe,
just maybe, I need a fricking studio instead
of my kitchen table.

-grumble'taur

I had my doctor's appointment and the results were good though discouraging.
My bone is healing perfectly, but slowly. Clinically my arm is healing perfectly
--- scar closed, swelling gone, good range of motion and promising strength ---
but on the x-ray you can clearly see that the bone isn't healed at the site of the
original break. My doc told me that while I could "return to the activities of
daily living", it could be up to two to three months before the bone is healed
to take the weight of handstand or a nengi (taido's spinning floor kick).

The super good news, thank God, is that my arm looks like it will completely
heal, so I don't want to screw that up! I've done some research on my own,
and the doc's projections are right on the money for what other physicians
project for a forearm break. According to my initial surveys if I was on
schedule for a break then around 10 weeks I'd be starting range of motion
therapy and at 12 weeks back to limited strengh training. I'm past 8 weeks,
so if anything I'm progressing ahead of schedule.

While I may talk to my doc about doing an early followup appointment,
realistically I'm not going to be able to go full out for at least a
couple of months. SO ... while I'm having a lot of fun at taido with
nengi and handstands and such, especially with the new ideas for the
upcoming tournament, it looks like I'm going to either have to miss
the tournament entirely or have my slot switched to do a less
intensive technique than throwing my head at the floor, missing,
and catching myself on my hands.

This sucks, but my arm looks like it's going to heal almost
perfectly --- and I plan to Do The Right Thing and keep it that way!

-Anthony

Labels: The Break

For all the students in my Introdution to Artificial Intelligence
course ... never fear, the coursenotes are coming. Check out the
classes link to see where the notes will be...
right now this is a placeholder, but I've got more content built up
now and will get it up, hopefully, by the end of the day Monday.

-Anthony