Isn't surgery fun! (yes this is my foot)

A few people asked how I ended up a cyborg or how my trip went. Well the trip was super great for the first two weeks, got to go to Machu Picchu, saw lots of Incan ruins, went to class every day, got to teach some great students, lived with some great people. Then early in my third week I was just outside of town (Cuzco) at some Incan ruins (Saqsaywaman) exploring by myself when I got the great idea to check out the awesome slide in the ruins. This slide consists of petty much a big rock with some butt grooves in it.

Slide at Saqsaywaman(Thanks Audrey for the photo)

I had to do things my way however and since it had been raining and hailing that afternoon in an attempt to not get my ass wet, I simply crouched and went down the slide on two feet in a crouching manner. Thanks to the efforts of some Chilean children there was plenty of ice on the slide and I quickly picked up a lot of speed. So now I'm crouching and zooming down this slide, I see the giant muddy puddle at the base. Left with the split second decision of letting myself go all the way down and faceplant in the puddle or attempt to jump it, I jumped. When I jumped I stepped on a rock whose face was at about a 60 degree angle going away from me. I managed to clear the puddle but when stepping on the rock for lift off I hyper-extended my foot upwards pulling the ligament holding the joint behind my first and second metatarsal together straight off the bone. This ligament was nice enough to tear off a corner of the bone from either side as well.

Not my foot, but this is where the injury occurred (opposite foot) with the joint under the black arrow spacing out.

This injury is commonly know as a Lisfranc fracture(wikipedia) So for my last two weeks in Peru I was confined to crutches, being on the third floor of school and the third floor of my house and my friends being on the third floor of their apartment, this wasn't that great. I'm an expert at crutching up and down stairs now however. I did everything I could not to let this keep me from getting around and still had a great time.

I know I haven't posted anything since I've gotten back, I've just been tweeting and playing Fallout mostly. I've also decided to go ahead and burn through all of Battlestar Galactica while I'm bed ridden. I'm halfway through the first season and really enjoying it so far. I've managed to watch some good movies like Mister Lonely and Confessions of a Superhero(this is on hulu or snagfilms for free, go watch it.) Tried watching the anime Tytania, wasn' quite for me, but I did like the first ep of Valkyria Chronicles. Thats whats up in my nerdy life right now. Hit me on twitter, I've almost got 100 followers! http://twitter.com/ntrpe

Peace, love, light
_ntrpe