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Subject:Re: blatant plea for sympathy (LVC!)
From:David Milo
Date:Sat, 13 Jan 2007 21:41:33 -0500

OUCH!

Our sympathies are with you Joy. I have never had a broken bone, but I
imagine that it does indeed completely suck.

Let's just hope that it heals in time for Everybus in April.

In the meantime, heal quickly!

Cheers,

Dave and Sandy Milo

On 1/13/07, Joy Hecht <jhecht@alum.mit.edu> wrote:
>
> WAAAHHH!!  I can't drive my van now!!  Matilda is going to be abandoned to
> the driveway!
>
> (end of vanagon content...  :-)
>
> I am now the happy owner of two crutches, one big fiberglass splint and
> one
> broken foot bone.  It sucks!  All sympathy greatly needed!!!  Who knew
> that
> I could break my foot, just by being clumsy and tripping on the curb???
> Surely not I, especially not before I continued walking another mile and a
> half to where I was going!  Teach me to figure I should get exercise by
> walking all around town...
>
> I have at least figured out how to carry a bowl of soup from the kitchen
> to
> the dining room table on crutches without spilling it.  And thanks to
> global
> warming I don't have to contend with snow and ice on my crutches.  And
> thank
> goodness my Prius doesn't take two feet to drive, and it's my left foot
> that
> I broke!
>
> Yeah yeah, I know there are MUCH more serious problems in the world.  But
> I
> still want sympathy, please!!!!
>
> Now, should I really send this email, or just quit bitching and hit the
> delete key???  Oops, there goes the "send" button!
>
>
>
>
> Joy
>
>
>
> ****************************************************************
> Joy Hecht
> now hobbling up and down the steps on crutches while
> Matilda is temporarily deserted in the driveway
>
> For musings about life traveling in the van or living in one place:
> http://www.joyhecht.net
>
> ****************************************************************
>
>

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