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Life Springs Anew From The Rot

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Okay I promise I won't keep stretching the rot analogy in my headlines after this. I'm just proud that I'm still writing. A little over two months ago I broke my leg. It was during a late ice storm and I was trying to take the trash out. I slipped and it full on felt like my leg bent underneath me. There's also a good 100 yards between the house and where the street is, so I had to limp back. Our dog, Callisto the cute Corgi, likes to come out with me to take out the trash and she just had this look of impotent concern as I slowly hopped towards the house. She's a good dog. I mention this because I finally got the clean bill of health from the doc today. There's still a slight fracture that hasn't fully healed on the leg bone but the ankle is fully okay now. He had some concern early on that we might have had to do surgery. Very grateful that it never came to that. For the first two weeks I had to just sit in one place and heal. If that didn't mean leavi...