Soup of the Evening, Beautiful Sooooup!

[kerravonsen]

Gacking things from all over the place...

I improved my Avon + Cally icon after synaesthete7 pointed out this icon tutorial (though I didn't add text to my icon because when I did it just looked crowded). I may work on a replacement for my "You Are Here" icon though I'm not sure what with.

Then vilakins pointed out this article which I should wave the next time someone wants to drag me to a party (not that people do, really, except at cons).

Okay, physically my leg is now twinging on and off. I've been working from home the last two days, after finding another bout of lunchtime agony. Ugh. Mum's trying to get her physio to see me but he's on holidays... and I just end up feeling guilty for having walked wrongly or something. But workly I feel accomplished since I was faced this morning with a problem I didn't think I could solve, but eventually managed to track down the most obstreperous error message in a mailing list archive (Google Is Your Friend) and a helpful reply (sometimes one finds mailing list archives which have people posting about the same error you have, but nobody ever replied to them...)

And yesterday I made a pea-and-ham-soup variant (using the ham bone from the Christmas Ham) -- I added dried apples (and a bit of dried apricot) to the mix. So, yeah, it is sweeter. Ended up very thick. Mum & Dad are coming over to share the last of it with me. I've thinned it down somewhat now. And they should have been here quarter of an hour ago, I'd better go check the soup!

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[mistraltoes.livejournal.com]

Okay, physically my leg is now twinging on and off.

Aiee! Have they ruled out sciatica or a pinched nerve? The reason I ask is because it now appears that the problem with my foot, which was very similar to how yours sounds, was a nerve being pinched by the lymphedema, not planter fascitis as the doctor originally suggested.

(sigh) I will be so much happier when they find a way to make you feel better. And refuse to feel guilty about how you walked on it, because if they can't tell what caused it, you can't know that you did something wrong. So there. {{hug}}

[kerravonsen]

No, I don't think it's a pinched nerve -- I was talking to a guy at work who turned out to have once got plantar fasciitis once from playing football, and he suggested it was referred back pain from tension and walking unevenly, and it makes sense. I mean it's only just happened the last week, not when I first got the thing.

[redstarrobot.livejournal.com]

I do like the Cally/Avon icon muchly.

[kerravonsen]

Thank you!