... And at 8.30 am too!
Now, for those who are slightly bemused, "getting plastered" is slang for getting very very drunk... Well despite my nose seeming like it's taking preparations for running next years Virgin London Marathon VERY seriously indeed... (lots and LOTS of practice...If I blow it any more I will have another problem to deal with that will mean I will look like I have very generously applied sunblock to it... it's NOT... it's E45 cream... to deal with a sore nose from lots of running... well... Claire Stevens who ran VLM2014 recommends lots of vaseline for friction caused by running... not sure about that... Think I'll stick to the E45 thanks all the same Claire!) I haven't yet taken any cold remedies with anything that could induce drunkenness in them...
So... what's with this "getting plastered"? (And at 8.30 am too!) Well... I literally was plastered... on both legs from foot to just below knee... Getting plastered is something of a dangerous sport if one has tremor and spasm... LOL Fear not... the lovely lady who was doing the job has escaped with all her teeth, and no black eyes or concussion. The next step is for the ever so talented people in the orthotics department to custom make the Ankle Foot Orthosis(e?) using the casts of my lower legs and feet... and then they get sent all the way to the Isle of Oswestry... where some kind of clever biomechanics is used to turn them into devices that deliver gradual pressure on my feet and ankles... gently persuading the muscles to stretch again (they've been all tight and causing my feet to "drop" when they aren't propped up on wheelchair foot plates, or something else, for years... ) ! Of course such magic doesn't happen overnight... so it will be a month or so before I will be able to go in for a "fitting" with the finished articles... and they will be coloured...! (I'm not letting on what colour yet!)
If I haven't got rid of this cold by the time my "splints" are ready for action... I may have no nose left!
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