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I’ve just imported the old blog in to this one…which may or may not have been such a good idea.

Will now spend some time fixing the tags. Bear with me. This may take a while.

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Tags fixed in record time, due to Wordpress deciding to only import half of the posts. I know not why, nor do I particularly care to know anymore. If you’re interested, it missed Boro not winning…well, anything really for the past five years, me breaking one bone in my right foot and three in my left, several months of pootling about in plaster casts, potentially me saying Mr Obama would be Mr President, and general moaning about the state of the world. So nothing new there then. You may in fact consider yourselves lucky that you don’t have to sit through it all again. :-p

I’m getting a good collection of broken bones now. As previously noted, I’ve broken the 5th metatarsal in my right foot. Today I went to the hospital to get the results of a CT scan on my left foot.

I’ve broken the 2nd metatarsal, the 3rd metatarsal, and also the 4th metatarsal. There are bone fragments floating around in my foot next to the ligaments, and I am now in a full cast and not allowed to put any weight on my left foot. My right foot requires no plaster at all now.

This is good in a way – I now have one working foot! However, I’m glad I moaned at the nurses who insisted I kept my weight OFF my RIGHT foot (which they strapped in a tubular bandage) and gave me a pair of crutches, instructing me to HOP on my LEFT foot. If I’d done that, the breaks would have become worse, and the bone fragments would have caused severe ligament damage.

My initial (untrained, note well) diagnosis was that I’d broken at least two bones and buggered the ligaments in my left foot. The staff at the hospital – until today – thought they knew better.

Next time I’m going private…

No. Wait. Let’s not have a next time, eh?

…it seems I’m not the only one. WWE held a pay-per-view event this past weekend, and two broken noses occurred during the show.

One belonged to Shawn Michaels, who got his nose broken during an elimination chamber match, most likely as a result of clashing with the elbow of Chris Jericho.

The other belonged to Paul Wight, aka The Big Show, who enticed boxing champ Floyd Mayweather Jnr to punch him in the face three of four times.

For Shawn, it was an accident.

For Big Show, it was a scripted segment, and he knew what was coming. How much exactly are they paying him to get punched in the face by a boxing champ? Whatever it was, I’m sure it wasn’t enough!