Day 10

My ankle hurts a lot and I’m still lying around all day resting it, going crazy from boredom. I’m actually waiting for a call back from my doctor’s office. My ankle seems to have gotten worse and more painful over the weekend and I’m wondering if that’s normal. Basically I can’t put any weight on it unless I’m taking the pain meds. When I first wake up in the morning and try to stand on it, it’s so sore and painful. Torture. I hope this is normal for it being Day 10 after surgery. I really don’t want to have to go into the clinic until my scheduled two-week appointment next Tuesday. But really, I’m just worried that something is wrong. I can’t remember it hurting this much last time, five years ago. However I probably blocked a lot of that out of my memory. I hope my doctor’s assistant calls me back soon. HYPOCHONDRIA!

In other news, it was my birthday on Monday. It was a pretty nice day despite being an invalid. My sister took me to a movie during the afternoon – The Rum Diary. Then I went out to eat with the family. It was also my dad’s birthday on Monday so we were celebrating with him as well. My good friend Kenneth in Dublin sent me a really nice birthday gift that arrived yesterday. He gave me this cool graphic-design kitchen towel thing from The Cake Cafe in Dublin. He also sent me a bunch of really awesome postcards of Berlin during the Cold War era. I love that kind of thing and I spent the day messing around taking some photos of the postcards. Oh yeah, and he also gave me these delicious mint chocolate biscuit things. Embarrassingly, I admit that I ate them all in one sitting. Well hey, what else am I supposed to do? They were really good.

Palast der Republik, Berlin, 1982

If you want to see more photos of the postcards and other random stuff I posted recently, check out my Flickr page – http://www.flickr.com/photos/meinherz