{"id":6429,"date":"2009-03-04T13:53:41","date_gmt":"2009-03-04T13:53:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.grayblog.co.uk\/2009\/03\/im-free-im-free\/"},"modified":"2009-03-04T13:53:41","modified_gmt":"2009-03-04T13:53:41","slug":"im-free-im-free","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/grayblog.co.uk\/index.php\/2009\/03\/04\/im-free-im-free\/","title":{"rendered":"I&#8217;m free! I&#8217;m free!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This morning, I had the plaster cast removed. Thank goodness for that!<\/p>\n<p>I now have a &#8220;double tubigrip&#8221; arrangement on my left foot\/ankle\/leg and have been given instruction to gently start walking again. I can only manage a handful of steps at one go before it becomes too painful\/uncomfortable, but the doctor reckons that I should progressively get stronger and more mobile by early next week. He reckons that the majority of the damage (or possibly even all of it) is muscular, not bone.<\/p>\n<p>Frankly, being able to move around again is great. I was starting to become a bit of a bear-with-a-sore-head (or sore leg) and could easily have become utterly insufferable for my family. But I&#8217;m looking forward to having a soak in the bath tonight and not relying on Hels to wash my hair (I couldn&#8217;t get in the shower to do it and found it rather precarious to lather my barnet whilst balanced on one foot). And, most of all, I&#8217;m looking forward to being able to drive again and get back to proper work rahter than the half-hearted work I&#8217;ve done for the last ten days.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This morning, I had the plaster cast removed. Thank goodness for that! I now have a &#8220;double tubigrip&#8221; arrangement on my left foot\/ankle\/leg and have been given instruction to gently start walking again. I can only manage a handful of steps at one go before it becomes too painful\/uncomfortable, but the doctor reckons that I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21,29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6429","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-personal","category-work"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/grayblog.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6429","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/grayblog.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/grayblog.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/grayblog.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/grayblog.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6429"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/grayblog.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6429\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/grayblog.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6429"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/grayblog.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6429"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/grayblog.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6429"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}