Bob Horowitz on Nostr: My Right Foot. February 25th 2000, 2:52 p.m. Backstory: 5 days earlier, while showing ...

My Right Foot.
February 25th 2000, 2:52 p.m.

Backstory: 5 days earlier, while showing a co-worker from Germany around the city, I fell down a steep hill and toppled over a retaining wall at the top of Telegraph Hill. I landed hard, on all fours, and broke my right foot and right arm.

The arm healed in about 6 weeks but the foot took six months, a lot of vicodin, and a second operation to remove the plate and screws.

There's more. I also rebroke the foot again, 4 weeks later when I was using my cell phone for a work conference while hopping down the stairs on my good left foot. I was rushing to get to Kaiser and get recasted because water had gotten into the original cast and a hair dryer is useless when trying to dry out a foot wrapped in a fiberglass cast.

Good times.

I bring this up now because on Tuesday I fell down the stairs to my garage and landed on all fours again. My knees are a little banged up and my wrist is stiff... but fortunately, this time, nothing broke.

I am klutz!

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