Off the crutches!

Had my follow-up visit with doc yesterday and I am off the crutches!  I was going to compose a column on crutching techniques but will dispense with that now!  I am starting to take short therapeutic walks (5-10 min) in the neighborhood and am taking one crutch with me on those to help me feel more stable, but when I walk around the house, they're history.

I'm also out of the Ace bandage and just have surgical tape on the incisions in my knees.  A nurse re-glued me and taped me up at the doc's yesterday.  So no stitches or staples - just surgical glue...  My knee looks a little swollen, but looks like a knee and not a grapefruit.  

I'm having trouble bringing in multiple pictures so will just do this one for now.  

Thought I would close by telling y'all about some of the nifty new daytime shows I've discovered.  There's "Clean House" on the Style channel, where people with AMAZINGLY full houses of junk have the "Clean House" staff come in and get rid of all their stuff and get their space into something they can actually live in.  I thought it might help me get more organized but the last time I was this bad was in college.  I'm a neat freak compared to these people...

I've also been watching the Dog Whisperer a lot and Cash Cab.  My favorite missed question on Cash Cab so far - what island used in nuclear testing in the 50's gave its name to a piece of summer clothing?  The contestant's answer - Bermuda, in Bermuda shorts.  Yeah, there was a lot of nuclear testing on Bermuda....

And I've been a regular on the Comedy Channel and the Colbert Report.  Last night he interviewed a representative from the National Chicken Council about the shortage of wings for the Super Bowl.  I googled the NCC and the guy on the show and they both exist!  I even sent him a short e-mail and he replied that he preferred answering questions about chicken wings over questions about bird flu....