Wednesday 31 October 2007

Lisfranc injury

Well, I got home from Buenes Aires on Monday, Oct 22nd. I went to work on Tuesday not feeling very well because of the bug I caught in Buenes Aires. I thought I may have strep throat so I made an appointment with my Doc for Tuesday afternoon. On my way back to work I got in a horrible, basically head on, accident. I saw it coming and remember thinking, Oh God this is going to be bad. Right away I knew my foot was messed up.

I was taken to the hospital via ambulance. I found out that all the 'long bones' in my right foot were broken away from the joints closer to my heel. This injury is refered to as a "lisfranc" injury.

I was in the hospital for a week waiting for the swelling to subside, then they decided that the doc I had was not comfortable doing my surgery. He recommended that I go to another hospital where the doc there dealt with this kind of injury. My Mom and I went there yesterday and found out they can't do the surgery till next Wednesday!

After doing some research and listening to the doc, this is not for the light hearted. I will be completely off my feet for two months! We'll see!!

Anyway, this leaves me a lot of time to blog. I'll keep you all updated.

Friday 12 October 2007

Cuppo de Vino

The newest addition to my Spanish vocab...ah...but it almost did me in yesterday. Only one cuppo de vino and I was ready to speak to anyone!
This experience is definately making me step outside my comfort zone but with Shelley coaxing me on and certainly the cuppo de vino it makes me so much braver!
Another new day stretches before me, pass the cuppo.

Thursday 11 October 2007

Ola from Argentina

I have been working hard learning Spanish. Here are some of the new additions (ignore the spelling, speech is hard enough) to my vocab. Shelley made me order my own coffee and sandwich yesterday! He actually understood me. I go into panic if he asks any question though!

Ola = Hi
Cafe con leche = Coffee with milk
Bestitos = little kisses
Tostados = awesome ham and cheese sandwich
gratias = thank you
mucho gratias = thank you very much
bano = bathroom
casa = house
no hablo espanol = I DON"T SPEAK SPANISH
hermano = sister
tia = aunt

I won't bother blogging daily, just follow our daily happenings on Shelley's blog at
http://theargentinaexperiment.blogspot.com/