Monthly Archives:July 2010

Yesterday I mentioned hubbymoose and I went to the prosthetic specialist to get a mold made for his new boot. I promised pictures – and have permission from Eric O’Guinn of Advanced Biomechanics Inc. to post them here.

First a long tube/sock was placed over hubby’s foot and leg – then a yellow tracked plastic piece was inserted. I missed that as I ran to the car quickly to get my camera. The plastic piece was inserted to make taking the form off more easilyl

Then the wrapping began. It’s the same fiberglass material used for casts.

After two layers were put on we waited for it to dry and harden – Eric checked also manipulated hubby’s foot to give him some arch – that way when the boot is made it will support his foot in a more natural position.

After the cast was hardened – it was time to remove it – that’s when the yellow plastic piece came in handy. (you can see it in the first picture – click for larger versions of the pics.) It gave a groove to guide the scissors and the exacto knife. Yup – exacto knife.

We should hear by the middle of next week that the boot is ready – this will look similar to the boots people wear when they have ankle surgery – or broken ankles. And, yes . . . there will be pictures of the completed project, too.

Hubby’s toe is healing . . . not at a full-on-stampede rapid rate, but it is healing. We go to the wound clinic at the hospital twice a week for dressing changes allowing the nurses and techs to check up on MY dressing changes over the week. They take pictures for comparison – size of the wound, etc.

Today we changed tactics a bit – again – to use a different type of healing solution. The prescription gel was not doing what they had hoped. The tech kept saying – that yellow stuff should be going away with this – don’t know why it isn’t.

Today it was decided that MAYBE that is NOT infection . . . but the tendon on his toe. Tendons need to be kept moist – the prescription was drying it out – thus a change. Okie dokie – we can do that.

Then off to the prosthetic guy for a mold of hubbymoose’s foot and leg – a special boot will be manufactured to help heal/get ahead of the Charcot’s Foot problem I talked about earlier. I will put pictures up in the next post of that process.
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and you thought I was stuttering! The sentiment fits what I saw today.

Took a lunchtime drive today . . . Mt. Redoubt was putting out some steam and the skies blued up so I hoped for some good shots. Not as good as I’d hoped, but still fun.

This is a great place to pull off the road and grab a shot – it’s atop the bluff over a beach site. (set-netting salmon site).

Spotted some boats out on the water – didn’t think it was a commercial drift fishing day . . . but apparently I was wrong. So, after work I drove to the top of the bluff near Olde Towne and checked out the scenery.

Some of the fleet coming home on the low tide: (click for larger)

The last shot shows a telling sign . . . Dangerous bluff. We used to be able to drive along the bluff – back in the late 70s. Then chunks of the bluff started to fall down towards the water – and soon chunks of the road went with it. Now houses and a church that used to sit several hundred feet back from the edge of the bluff have a ringside seat.

These last two shots are just for fun:

The picture on the left is blurry, but I wanted to show you what some of the dipnetters will do . . . they don wetsuits and then FLOAT on the tide – brrrrrr – and silly, too. Would be pretty hard to get a fish in to shore if they got one while floating.

7-22: Footnote on the above picture: Man disappears in Kenai. This happened earlier in the day – same day as I took the pictures. Body has not yet been found. Sad. (the man floating in my picture is NOT the missing person)

The picture on the right shows an abandoned dipnet. The plastic jug helps the handle float, I’m guessing.

So, I smell all smokey from the beach fires – and I was way up above them. The mixture of the smoke, fish, and salt air . . . ahhhh summer in Kenai.

I’ve missed getting shots of a couple of funny tags – but do have these for you. Love getting behind them at traffic lights – hate when I can’t get to the camera fast enough.

be honest, now . . . who among us is NOT singing “baby you’re dah 1!” ??

and then . . . . there is the neighborhood

’nuff said. :0

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Living in Alaska – and making fun with pictures of cars/from my car – these were taken over the past couple of weeks.

okay – this one was taken on July 4th actually, but it fits this car-tegory. We get a lot of vanity plates hereabouts. This one said it all.
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We’re all here . . . ’cause we’re not all there! 🙂

vanity – vanity – all is vanity . . . esp. when you are in the Alaska State Senate. Spotted this one while grocery shopping. Nope – have no clue whose car it is – could be local – could be one of the many who are running for “higher” office. I imagine I could find out . . . but . . .

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Seeing Red

Left the office for lunch yesterday and right across the street a LOT of red caught my eye – maybe they were having a special – “if you drive a red car” discount???

Not to be outdone in the Seeing Red category . . . the Kenai Senior Center’s lunch crowd was showing a bit of red as well. ‘course – a couple of those vehicles belong to the center.

ummmm – nope, not right yet, thank you.

Ouch! They had the trunk bungied closed. In Alaska we’re all about 110 mile an hour tape (duck tape – yes, indeedy it IS “duck” tape) and bungie cords.

and . . . last but not least . . . synchronicity. I love numbers – not adding and such as math is not my big thing – but numbers that have some fun in them:

119911
I have a 2001 Saturn . . . it turned over 120,000 over the weekend. I’ve taken several odometer pics of it – this is the latest.