Hi Gang,

I think there's something wrong with my Karma; well, at the very least I KNOW there's something wrong with my ankle -- I broke it yesterday at my parents, as we were just beginning our family Easter festivities.

Yup, in the wake of my on-going recovery from surgery, and after falling down the stairs on Saturday (those rascally cats always think they have the right of way), I took a bad step, and rolled my ankle. Immediately began to cry -- not so much from the pain, but more in the sense of "What the F---?!" Iced it, kept it propped up, poor Nonni cried all thru dinner (she turned 104 last week, so she's entitled), and went to sleep in my still-bed-as-chair-b/c-can't-lie-down accomodations, hoping that I would wake up this morning to find it was only a bad dream...

But no go. Went to ortho directly, and thank god it's only a hair-line fracture, but it's still a friggin broken ankle! Refused a cast -- simply could not do it -- so I'm in this cast boot thingy for 6 weeks or so.

So basically, AAAARGH!!

Separately, I wanted to belatedly thank the following people who had offered their generous support on the "Bethieboo" thread Wyman had started:

http://www.jpfolks.com/forum/ubbthreads.php/ubb/showflat/Number/793516/page/2/fpart/2

Those people are Wyman, Yann, Donna, Al, Nadia, Lynn, Tom, Stan, Gus, Scooter, Jean and Midnite.

I can't wait to have a yard sale on all this orthpedic equipment some day. It sure isn't like holding on to it has helped much...

Anway, thanks for any positive thoughts you wanna send up. I know it's hardly life-threatening and all that, but still, I can assure you it SUCKS!

Take care,
Beth

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