I Will Be Bionic

[madrobins]

Went back to the foot doctor today. The bad bunion puts my toe at over a 20% tilt from where a toe ought to be. The plan is: cut off the bunion, break the toe and remove a pie-shaped slice so that it will sit at a more normal angle, reattach the toe-bone with a metal screw. After which, exeunt all, singing (well, not actually singing. Maybe the doctor, who's a huge musical theatre fan, but I expect and hope to be well drugged). As ridiculous a thing as this is to be doing, the other toes on that foot are beginning to suffer from lack of room in my shoes. So: September 1, my appointment with foot destiny. After which, six weeks in a walking cast (four of those on crutches and not walking) and then sneakers for a while. But I should be movable in time for World Fantasy and Bouchercon--my secret plans.

Now, if I can get the doctor to put in a metal screw with a death ray or something cool in it, we'll be cooking with gas microwaves gas.