Joseph P. Fisher’s Blog He gets injured sometimes. Sporadic Stimulating Blogging June 7, 2023 I have tried to maintain a blog on at least three occasions. Attempt 1 In the late 2000s, shortly after completing my Ph.D., I was teaching an array of different English classes at Northern Virginia Community College-Alexandria and at The George […]
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Well, things look different, don’t they? As I promised before, I am going to start toying with new layouts for these blog posts to make them more user friendly, now that I am actually using the blog to, well, blog. Today, I have just a few brief updates. First, I have started building a permanent
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A Boot on the Ground! Today marks the day when I can officially begin bearing (some modest) weight on my right ankle. I have not walked since the morning of November 7, 2018, some 36 days ago. Today also marks the day when I am officially off of all post-operation medication, save for the handful
30 Days Out Well, today marks one month from the date of my ankle surgery. It has not been easy. It’s odd to say that, by the way. As I constantly remind myself, what I have experienced is hardly the most serious kind of surgery, and the prognosis is far from grim. I don’t have
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Ankle Malfunction See those pictures up there? Does your ankle look like that? Your ankle should not look like that. My ankle? My ankle does look like that. In fact what you see up there, dear reader, is an MRI of my right ankle showing what is called an osteochondral defect (or lesion) in my
Welcome Post Welcome to the indestructible, unavoidable, completely-impossible-to-unpublish page for this website’s blog. Seriously, I tried everything short of deleting the page altogether to make it disappear from the search results of the many search engines that comb the Internet. History has shown that I am a very bad blogger. I have tried to maintain