PROS AND CONS OF HAVING A CAST

PROS:

-I get a nice break from all the walking I do these days. It's nice to be lazy sometimes.
-People are willing to get me things from upstairs or far away. I don't mean this in a bitchy princess way, but people offer to get me things before I can even get out of my chair to go get them. I can't deny that it's nice.

-I get to wear sweatpants all the time. I love sweatpants.

-The whole thing is more comfortable than I thought. I thought I'd be dying to bend my ankle and my toes, but I really barely notice that they're perpetually bent. Sleeping isn't so bad, either.

-It's a nice color, and I like the butterflies I drew on it. It makes it look better than just being a mess of signatures.

CONS:

-Erm, I can't walk. I mean, I can, but I look like a fool, it's tiring, and hard to deal with. All the muscles in my lower body ache from walking differently on my leg. And sometimes, I get up from sitting or try to climb/go down stairs and forget I'm wearing it and stumble.

-I can't scratch itches. I have a pink plastic ruler specially designated for all itching problems.

-Because my cast has a toeplate in (I broke the toe, after all), the cast goes all the way to the tips of my toes rather than having them stick out. Because I've been walking on it, the fibreglass is weakening and cracking on the sole and pinching my toes between the bottom and the top of the cast. I have a killer blister from walking around New Haven today.

-Showering is ridiculous. OK, well, it was until I got a waterproof cast protector instead of using a garbage bag, but it's still kind of obnoxious to put the thing on every time and take it off. I scrape my knuckles every time on the fibreglass.
-It smells, and it has the potential to get dirty. I keep it very clean with my supercool cast socks, which is typical of me, but still...it just smells like a foot. And I can't shave.

-I have to wear sweatpants all the time. I love sweatpants, but being completely unable to wear most things in my wardrobe is obnoxious, especially since this probably will continue for the most part for two months (though I think I'm allowed to wear tights/leggings/skinny jeans under the aircast, and I can take the thing off to put regular jeans on properly).

-I'm going to have a hell of a time walking from where the coach drops me off back to the Village with all my bags and my cast when I fly back to England. I'll probably email some of my friends beforehand, and if any are on campus at that time, I'll pay them to help me.