Wednesday, July 14, 2004
Part 3 - What is it with academics and falling?
Received a sad text message from K on my mobile just before bed:
FELL AT POOL. SO STPD. NO BREAK BT CRUTCHS 4 2 WKS. HAD HSPTITAL ADVENTR BT OK NOW.
There’s something I haven’t mentioned, because until now it wasn’t relevant, but now I guess it is: the participants in K’s conference have been dropping like flies. Literally. One attendee cancelled just before arriving in Istanbul due to injury, and another man fell in Aya Sofya on the second day and fractured his pelvis. He’s been in the American Hospital in traction ever since. A couple other minor spills are always met with horror and concern.
It’s been jokingly referred to as “The Curse” but now it seems K has become its latest victim.
A couple more text messages and I get the vague details – she slipped after swimming at the university pool on a wet stone step and pulled a tendon or ligament (not sure) on the top of her foot, and bruised the bone badly. Her colleagues insisted that she go to the hospital, where x-rays showed no break, but the doctors ordered bed-rest for three days, compression bandages, constant ice and elevation, and said she should keep weight off it (i.e. use crutches) for at least two weeks.
Why is it K’s always in the hospital when I’m impossibly far away? At least I’m in the same country. And I’ll see her in a few days.
Puts a damper on things, though, to be sure…
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FELL AT POOL. SO STPD. NO BREAK BT CRUTCHS 4 2 WKS. HAD HSPTITAL ADVENTR BT OK NOW.
There’s something I haven’t mentioned, because until now it wasn’t relevant, but now I guess it is: the participants in K’s conference have been dropping like flies. Literally. One attendee cancelled just before arriving in Istanbul due to injury, and another man fell in Aya Sofya on the second day and fractured his pelvis. He’s been in the American Hospital in traction ever since. A couple other minor spills are always met with horror and concern.
It’s been jokingly referred to as “The Curse” but now it seems K has become its latest victim.
A couple more text messages and I get the vague details – she slipped after swimming at the university pool on a wet stone step and pulled a tendon or ligament (not sure) on the top of her foot, and bruised the bone badly. Her colleagues insisted that she go to the hospital, where x-rays showed no break, but the doctors ordered bed-rest for three days, compression bandages, constant ice and elevation, and said she should keep weight off it (i.e. use crutches) for at least two weeks.
Why is it K’s always in the hospital when I’m impossibly far away? At least I’m in the same country. And I’ll see her in a few days.
Puts a damper on things, though, to be sure…
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