Everything posted by hookem2010
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Getting old sucks
This is correct. The number of post-podiatry disasters we saw...
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Getting old sucks
I was a PA for a foot & ankle ortho surgeon for 5 years. It's been a minute, but I might still remember some stuff. If the arthritis is within the IP joint (joint within the toe), you can fuse that and immediately weightbear as tolerated in a post-op shoe. Generally, it's in the MTP joint, where the toe meets the foot, and is called hallux rigidus. Unless things have changed dramatically since 2018, you DO NOT want to do a joint replacement. It will likely fail and fusion becomes much more difficult. Fusion requires I believe 4 weeks entirely off the foot and an additional 4 weeks in a post-op shoe. It takes some adjustment, but I believe most people are able to return to most activities. Sometimes you can just shave off bone spurs, as your wife had done. Also, a carbon fiber insert can help limit motion, and thus pain, through the joint. Stiff-soled shoes will be your friend regardless of the route you choose. OTOH, pain with covers touching is a hallmark of gout, but if you have significantly limited dorsiflexion, along with pain, that's almost certainly arthritis.
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Trump calls for former Guardians and Commanders names.
The first week we can celebrate fucking over the Natives. Then, we can focus on enslavement of blacks. I suppose we could spend a week on the Chinese workers brought over to work on the railroad, Japanese in internment camps and modern post-Covid Asian hate. And I guess we wrap it with our current treatment of Hispanics. Great idea!
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Trump’s America
Tell me you're not a suburban mom without telling me you're not a suburban mom.
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2025 Wimbledon Championships
I only caught the last set, but Sinner's groundstrokes are insane. Anyone other than Alcaraz wouldn't have even touched half those shots. Who is going to be the next non-Big 3? (Djokovic wouldn't shock me if he got one more if dodges the top 2)
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Tennis Thread
I've never played on anything but a hardcourt. Playing on clay or grass would be incredible. And after my initial surge of play during my wife's maternity leave with our first, I've been out maybe twice in the last three years. I need to correct that.
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ICE activity/raids
"He wasn't there for healthcare purposes, he was just trying to escape from being kidnapped!" is an argument, I guess...
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ICE activity/raids
I'm going to have to inject bleach into my occipital lobe to remove that image from my mind. Thanks.
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2025 Wimbledon Championships
Texas national championship game, Olympic 100M final and a day at Wimbledon would probably be my top 3 bucket list sporting events. That must have been an incredible experience. And before I get any shit, I was a poor senior who didn't luck out in the lottery and had a grad school interview the following day for the '09 game.
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Colorado Vacation Destinations - Not Quite So Crowded, But Still Cool
I think a lot of the crowd she grew up with turned into kind of deadbeats, and she felt she was going to be stuck if she stayed. She was also one of the few non-whites at her school, which was not easy as a kid. Going back as an adult, she definitely appreciates it more.
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Colorado Vacation Destinations - Not Quite So Crowded, But Still Cool
See you in CB! I'll be there visiting my wife's sister with the family for a few days the end of July. I've only ever been in the summer to see her family, and now we've got a 3 year-old and 9 month-old, so our hikes are somewhat limited, but it's a gorgeous place. And to hop on the thread derail, my wife is from Colorado Springs. She doesn't have the fondest memories growing up there, but her older brother and his longtime gf are due with their first child at the end of the year. I am not attempting to dissuade her from moving back to CO sometime in the next few years. I could be outside for hours every day, especially out there. Doesn't hurt that in addition to her sister's place in CB, their family has 100 acres and a cabin they're fixing up just a bit north of Waunita Hot Springs. I get to check out that property for the first time on this trip too. Coming back to Round Rock afterward is going to sting.
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Trump’s America
They're doing a wonderful job of making me forget what life was like pre-2016.
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2025 Wimbledon Championships
All my shit-talking Fritz is finally paying off!
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2025 Wimbledon Championships
Shelton has been fun to watch this tournament. About to go up 2-1.
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Independence Day 2025
Fight with the parents in the hookem house! Had to take my 3 year-old upstairs when my dad slammed his hand on the couch and said that fox wasnt the only place he got his news.
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2025 Wimbledon Championships
Shelton came out serving angry that the final game of the match was delayed overnight.
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2025 Wimbledon Championships
Gauff about to pull a Pegula.
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2025 Wimbledon Championships
Tomorrow. Lame.
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Off Grid Alaska
Can we send @Mitch Cumsteen's wife to the original cabin? I'd love too see what happens when utilitarian meets the opposite of that.
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Karoline Leavitt
You could fit two Tom Selleck mustaches between her upper lip and nose. Pass.
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The Supremes
OK, that was my understanding as well. Just never know what's coming down the pike with that fucking reptile Miller trying to create a white America.
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The Supremes
Wife. She was born in the US, so I don't know if she technically gained citizenship through birthright or through some other means at the time of adoption.
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The Supremes
My wife was born in the US to a Korean non-citizen who was in the US for school, then immediately adopted. We live in Texas. Can anyone tell me how concerned we should be?
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This Land Is Mine! public lands (NPS, BLM, NFS, etc.)
1.2 million acres today (plus weakened protections of 58 million additional acres with the rescinded roadless rule), NWRs, NFs and NPs tomorrow. I think anyone who lives in Texas and gives the tiniest shit about the outdoors would agree that more federal lands is preferable to our situation, where over 96% of the land is privately held.