Hello everyone! Finally got around to some decent time on the computer to pump out an update to everyone. Saw some new people posting comments on the blogs Sarah wrote! Let me give a shout out to cousin Sarah in California... San diego is it? And another shout out to my buddy 'CarWax' from Brown College; You still in Game Design? Anyways, here I am, sittin' in Kentucky, where the weather changes daily - literally. One day it's sunny, the next it's raining, then cold, hot, raining again, sheesh!
Ok, back on track - 'The Foot'! I saw an Orthopedic doctor, one of those foot specialist types, and he looked at the x-rays that Ft. McCoy took once we got back. Basically, as Sarah wrote earlier, he was dumbfounded as to why my foot wasn't healed. He gave a few explainations for a 'possible' reason why. It wasn't because I was walking on it with that cast, but because they let me take it off at night and to let my foot breath. The Doc said I probably should have kept it on because when I took it off, the movement of my foot could've caused my tendons to pull on the broken peice and keep it from healing. The other explaination was that I probably have Osteopenia of the foot... which doesn't make sense to me. I've never had problems with my bones before, and I've had plenty of opporunities where my bones should have broken, and plenty of calcium throughout the years. (Sarah and Mom can attest to BOTH of those statements.)
I'm trying to track down, with the help of people from the unit I was deployed with, x-rays that were taken while I was still in Iraq. Hopefully these can help show the condition my foot was in right after the break, and when compared to the x-rays from McCoy, they can help the Doc figure out what might be going on down there. I'm going to be insisting tomorrow that they schedule me for a certain type of bone density scan so I can find out if I really, truly do have Osteopenia, or if the lack of healing is a result of something else. (Like being told I could take off my walking cast at night, or whatever.) I'm really hoping it's not Osteopenia, because Osteoporosis isn't far behind. I'd have to make some big adjustments to ensure it never goes that far. Needless to say, they put me in a hard cast, and now I'm using crutches for EVERYTHING! ARGH! I swear, my arms are going to look like 'the Hulk', or maybe even 'ARNOLD'!
Any-who, just counting down the days that I get to go home for a few days of leave, and the days of which I get my orders to come home for the finishing of all my health care! Hope everyone had a great weekend, and have a great week!
Peace, out.
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River Ohanapecosh running through Mt. Rainier National Forest
Info about my Iraq deployment...
Mt. Rainier
River Ohanapecosh running through Mt. Rainier National Forest
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Yeah I am still in Game Design; I believe this is the 7th quarter. There are only 5 of the original class still going. Jon, Dain, Rob, Jorden and myself. This quarter is pretty fun, heavy workload, but fun.
We have a class where we have to make a 30 second animation. I’m working on a Star Wars theme where I have Xwings and Tie fighters having a space battle. Hopefully it turns out good.
Then there is Torque 2D. Another programming class. It’s pretty cool so far; we spent the first 6 weeks learning to make basic 2d games like side scrollers, top down shooters, breakout, etc. Now the next 6 weeks we get to work on our own 2D game.
The last class is one you would be enjoying. We have Andrew again, this time for Character Development. The first six weeks we were taking 4 character archetypes each week and we would be given a time period to make up characters for. For example, we would get Zeus, Poseidon, Hera, Hestia and the setting would be World War I. So we would have to come up with 4 characters in the WWI time period based on the archetypes. We needed to write a couple paragraphs, this included physical description, psychological, etc. Then of course there was drawing involved. For each character we needed a front, side and an action pose. I didn't really like doing these characters because we were forced to a setting of his choosing. Now the next 6 weeks we get to work on our own characters and story. It can be anything we want, so I am pretty stoked about that, not sure what I'm going to do yet but I’ve got some ideas.
That is about all that is going on at Brown right now, sorry if I bored you, haha. Hope you find those Xrays you're looking for and figure out whats been going on with your foot. Have a great day man.
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