This is the moment we have been waiting for.
Cast out, foot in
Dear BAL Diary,
6 weeks of indoor self-developing.
6 weeks from spring to summer.
6 weeks with a big cast and crutches.
That 6 weeks ended today – Not the end of the story – but a big milestone of it.
Wednesday 6th May, Tommi and I went to the hospital.
I didn’t practice walking at home at all, because my cast was big and was covering all my feet. Thus, I may accidentally damage my cast if forcing it too much. And that was the last thing I wanted to do.
At the hospital, to the same room. The doctor smiled, cut open my cast, sent me to another X-ray, then the final check-up. Technically everything recovered well, and I wouldn’t have to visit the hospital again. I could keep the crutches, which I did, to practice walking again.
How is my leg (this part may be disturbing to some extend)
There is something I feel too urgent to write down right now. The feeling that I would never forget, once the cast was off.
Itchy.
Itchy.
F*ckinggggg Itchyyyy!
Imagine your leg being wrapped up still in a long period. No shower, no contact, no air. With a wound started to grow new skin.
I, instinctively, started scratching. And the simulation was so great~
It wasn’t exaggerated to say that I went through a leg-orgasm right there. Every slightest touch to that area gave me uncanny pleasure. The doctor said it happened to everyone. My father said when he opened his cast years ago, he even asked mom to help him scratching. Those of you who have been through this would understand me well.
And what did I say? “wrapped up still in a long period. No shower, no contact, no air.”.
Yes, it was dirty, odor, and disgusting at well. A leg full of disinfected medicine and plasmas.
I spent the next hour washing it, the first time in six months. Then applied skin scream for recovery.
On the surface, the leg had many red-ish spots – because pores couldn’t breathe. And because I scratched it too much, all of them started bleeding and overnight gave my leg a yellow cover of plasma. But another day passed and they eventually get better.
So, can I walk now?
Hell yes.
I started to walk without crutches right away (of course, limping). And it gets better every day, though I will have to wait for another month or so for it to function normally.
*Update: I received the decision of reimbursement from the insurance yesterday. So, for this incident: the doctor visits, x-rays, hospital stay (in that fancy room), surgery, checkups…all of them cost €139, and was 100% covered by the insurance. A lesson that I was lucky enough to go through only with a scar; the first time I used my student insurance for almost 2 years.
My bank card got hacked
So, are there any other things, besides the leg? Yes.
On Wednesday, I checked my card balance and found out two suspicious transactions happened on the same day. It was around €60 euros in total, towards a company I have never contacted.
I contacted my bank immediately and got my card blocked – they would send me a new one soon. A lesson for how I use my card.
Friends visits
Last week was probably the busiest week at my place.
My flatmate Jesse moved out recently, leaving me alone…with no microwave. So eventually I had to buy a new one.
But also by the weekend, there were visits from my good friends:
The end
So that’s how my life has been, apart from +12 hours of working and learning per day. I still have plenty of plans this summer, but let’s see how the pandemic goes. We go with the flow.
Khanh Tr.
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