When I broke my leg in November, I thought, surely I'll be off crutches and walking just fine by my birthday. Well, my birthday is in less than two weeks, and I'm still on crutches! The other day, I decided I'd had enough of ugly, plain, gray crutches, and I got busy with the duct tape! They came out so cute! I was so pleased! Now I want to cover everything I own in duct tape. Pauly's going to come home from work and find our washer and …
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Broken Leg Complication: Blood Clots!
Alternate title: how my teenager spent the worst Christmas of her life. So, I mentioned that my 17-year-old broke HER right leg, just a couple of weeks after I broke MY leg, and how it just added another level of fuckery to our already upside-down world. She broke the same bone that I did, although her fracture was just a vertical, hairline crack along the back of her leg. She was in tremendous pain, and spent almost two weeks lying on the …