It has been an exceedingly long time, I know. Yet, despite how long it has been, I still have not decided how I want to style this blog. My preference is to design all of these posts using full-width Elementor layouts, because I think that they look much better than the standard blog layout. (Also, […]
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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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The General Update Here I am on the morning of January 1, 2020—the year of the future—closing out 2019’s periodic surgery stats updates. We are officially at the point where I hope that these stats can be reconceptualized as training stats, because I do hope that I have progressed to the time when I can
This will be quick, because I am tired. For one thing, I started that new job. For another thing, I am trying unsuccessfully to finish Thomas Wolfe’s Look Homeward, Angel. The latter is more exhausting and much less fulfilling than the former. This week, I passed the one year mark for my official osteochondral defect
Again! Finally! Well, I’m back, sort of. This morning marked the first morning that I got out of bed, laced up my shoes, and jogged along the Potomac River in over a year. I have officially reached the return to running on the road phase of my recovery. At the moment, I am running in
Briefly (for Now) I remain very busy. For starters, I think that I have finally decided on a good working structure for this website, so I have begun the process of designing and installing a proper navigation menu for it. This endeavor takes time on its own, and it has forced me to streamline and
At Last July 14, 2018 was the date when the osteochondral defect in my right ankle decided that it would hide no more and instead would scream at me very loudly for weeks and weeks until my surgeon cut the whole thing out of the bone. Today is June 14, 2019, and I am (finally)
At Last I’m still here. I promise. Things are busy. Work is busy. Website development is busy. And physical therapy is keeping me busy. Most of my weeks remain consumed with trips back and forth to various people who push and pull and tug and yank and do various other things to bend me back
More Surgery Stats The title really does say it all. Today marks another entry in the very long milestone marking process of my ankle surgery recovery. I should say up front that I am not keeping track of all of these modest progress points either to brag or to engage in some kind of elongated
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My Ankle, by the Numbers Throughout the duration of my recovery, I intend to offer intermittent updates about the various stages of rehab that I’ve experienced and about the overall duration of this very long process. Again, there seems to be precious little information about osteochondral defect rehab on the vast, vast Interwebs, so I’m