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[cjsmith]

indyansel, I don't believe this! They're awesome! They arrived in styrofoam with an ice pack. And you knew I liked dark! How'd you know/remember that??

apparentparadox, that pillow thing is a GODSEND. I used it all day yesterday and I'm using it now.

The long-acting local is definitely all gone now. It's interesting learning how to get around without letting either forefoot touch ANYTHING. I am realizing how much easier things would be with one good leg, particularly in the bathroom. But I'm still glad I don't have to go through surgery twice!

I suspect, as ouchy as this is, that I have it easy in the post-surgical pain department. After all, at the bottom of the incision just coincidentally happens to be a spot where I don't have a nerve any more.

Since the local's worn off I can feel my toes... most of them. On each foot there is a spot I will never feel again, and let me just say right now that is the weirdest sensation I have experienced in thirty-seven years on this earth. It's not half so freaky when I know it's an anaesthetic. This is ME; this is how my body is, forever. A local is also, somehow, not quite as complete a loss of sensation. I touch these toes with my fingers and it's like they're not there at all. Someone substituted plastic toes. Except that the other side of each toe is there. At that point my brain segfaults. It simply cannot make sense of the input it is getting.

For some reason I am still thinking of all this as a grand adventure.

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[cjsmith.livejournal.com]

Yeah, my brain's not doing so well with it either. (wry grin) Fortunately it doesn't seem to feel weird just to have my feet surrounded by the cloth booties. There's no sense that part of the bootie is in some other dimension and not really there. Hopefully that will remain true with socks and shoes, so I won't be rebooting my brain all over the place when I start walking again.

Shoot me now, I am a horrible dork

[palecur.livejournal.com]

Booties of Holding can hold the user's feet and up to 3 cubic yards of possessions in a sub-dimension outside the Prime Material Plane.

Re: Shoot me now, I am a horrible dork

[psi-star-psi.livejournal.com]

*snork*

I'm glad I wasn't drinking anything when I read this.

Re: Shoot me now, I am a horrible dork

[cjsmith.livejournal.com]

*laughter*

in a sub-dimension outside the Prime Material Plane

That's it! That's where my toes are.