Wook's Place

Wook's Ankle

It still looks like this:

But it is getting better. Just not damn fast enough.

There have been times when I didn't think it was. My friend Mandi the Massage Therapist had to tell me it was getting better around New Year's. After avoiding it due to swelling the first two massages I had from her, she asked if she could touch it, and then proceeded to work out a giant knot that had been hurting from ankle to knee.

Doc Gordon said two weeks ago that the xrays looked good, but it really takes 8 weeks for a broken ankle like mine to heal. He'd said 6 to 8 on the previous visit, and when I called him on the full 8 week thing, he said I shouldn't listen to him. I asked him if it wouldn't just be easier to chop the whole thing off at the knee, but Doc G. said that no, it wouldn't be easier at all. Oh well.

But Doc Gordon did give me an air cast. It isn't any easier for me to get around in it. But at least it's "the next step on my rehabilitation". For those who don't know, an air cast is a miniature version of the monster pictured above. Thin plastic shells with gel pads velcro'ed around my ankle, thin enough to fit in my shoe. I wore it a few days last week. I wore the whole boot (above) Monday for the flight here to MCI, and again today because my ankle was to swollen to wear the air cast and get it into my shoe.

So, another week or so to go.

Then I start physical therapy of some sort.

Nonxistant Airports: DIA, KCI, and PTI

I ran into someone today at Kansas City International airport, who insisted that the airport code for this airport is "KCI". This is, after all, what's printed on all the road signs leading here. Denver International Airport is called DIA on all the road signs leading up to the airport too. In North Carolina, when I was in Winston-Salem, the closest airport, just outside of Greensboro, was thought by many to be airport code "PTI", for "Piedmont Triad International".

I'm glad these people aren't travel agents. If you check the Airport Code Website you find out that there are not airports with codes of DIA or KCI. There is an airport with code PTI, it is Port Douglas, Australia. In reality, Kansas City is "MCI", Denver is "DEN", and Greensboro is "GSO".

I've typed this in while sitting in MCI, waiting for a much delayed flight home, thru Chicago O'Hare. It got me to wondering about where some of the airports get their codes. Sometimes the airport/city codes obviously fit their location. "JFK" airport is John F. Kennedy in New York City. And that makes sense. "DEN" makes sense, as do ones like "DSM" (Des Moines, IA), and "MSP" (Minneapolis, MN).

But then there are ones that don't obviously make sense. Chicago O'Hare is "ORD", which really is close only because it has an "O" in it. I happen to know that O'Hare started life as "Orchard Park", which makes more sense. Then there is Dulles International, outside of Washington DC, with a code of IAD. I seem to remember that IAD started life called Idlewild, but I'd have to check to make sure. I have to think that EWR (Newark, near NYC in New Jersey), might be as close as they could come to something that made sense. "NEW" is New Orleans Lakefront. "NWR" and "NWK" are not taken though.

If my battery wasn't totally dying ("5 minute warning, get your shit together") I'd look around a little more. So maybe more later.