{"id":93,"date":"2007-08-26T17:26:52","date_gmt":"2007-08-27T01:26:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.radragon.com\/giornale\/index.php?op=ViewArticle&amp;articleId=763&amp;blogId=1"},"modified":"2007-08-26T17:26:52","modified_gmt":"2007-08-27T01:26:52","slug":"im-back-and-i-er-brought-home-a-friend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.radragon.com\/journal\/2007\/08\/26\/im-back-and-i-er-brought-home-a-friend\/","title":{"rendered":"I&#039;m back and I, er, brought home a friend&#8230;."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>LOL. Meet Kane (<i>kah-ne<\/i>) my cane: <\/p>\n<p><img src=\"http:\/\/i30.photobucket.com\/albums\/c323\/RaDragon\/KAHNE.jpg\" \/><br \/>\n<br \/>As you might (or mightn&#039;t) know, I went surfing this weekend for the first time. Our private lesson began at 1PM last Saturday and I tweaked my ankle (i.e., landed on it) about 30 minutes into the &quot;class&quot; &#8212; after writhing in the Pacific (ocean) for a good 5 minutes, I shook it off and got back on the rented longboard to paddle. How the hech do you hurt your ankle at sea? It&#039;s not really that difficult if you wipe out at the shallowest part, i.e., close to shore. &gt;_&lt;<\/p>\n<p>Ahhhh&#8230; It was soooooo much fun, though. The good news: even with a tweaked ankle, I was able to finally stand on the board; the surf instructor was cute; both my ankles are now officially &quot;cankles&quot; &#8212; thanks to a previous right-ankle injury whilst @ university, both right and now left look very much the same and ugly! The bad news is, I probably should take a week or two off from running! Crapz0rs! LOL, I&#039;m going to feel the suffering in October during the 1\/2 marathon. <\/p>\n<p>So lessons learned this weekend:<br \/>1. When wiping out, make sure your bum falls into the water first&#8230; then again, I don&#039;t want to break my tailbone&#8230; K, nvm&#8230; lesson is: try not to wipe out <i>in shallow waters<\/i>.<\/p>\n<p>2. Wrap and ice injured ankle immediately; don&#039;t walk 3 blocks to the market, go shopping, carry the groceries home and then writhe in pain again in the evening wondering-why-the-hech-you-walked-that-far-with-a severely-swollen-ankle.<\/p>\n<p>3. Canes are your friend (and so is the CVS pharmacy!)<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LOL. Meet Kane (kah-ne) my cane: <\/p>\n<p>As you might (or mightn&#039;t) know, I went surfing this weekend for the first time. Our private lesson began at 1PM last Saturday and I tweaked my ankle (i.e., landed on it) about 30 minutes into the &quot;class&quot; &#8212; after writhing in the Pacific (ocean) for a good 5  <a href=\"https:\/\/www.radragon.com\/journal\/2007\/08\/26\/im-back-and-i-er-brought-home-a-friend\/\"> read more <span class=\"meta-nav\">&raquo;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.radragon.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.radragon.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.radragon.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.radragon.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.radragon.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=93"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.radragon.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.radragon.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=93"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.radragon.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=93"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.radragon.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=93"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}