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I went to the Foot Clinic this morning, and, as I had feared, the cast stays on for at least another two weeks. The podiatrist took the tape off the bottom, moved the sock covering the cast up toward my ankle, and put her nose close and took a biiiiig sniff. Apparently if something is festering inside this is the only way to find out short of cutting the cast off. She then hit the cast a few times to see whether it was cracked. Apparently all is well and they will see me again in two weeks.

I told them that if it wasn't off by May 12th (my installation day) I would cut it off myself. They promised that they would take it off before then. If I still need it, they'll put another one on the next week. However, I am hopeful that 6 weeks in the cast will be sufficient to heal the ulcer.

Last night I was eating something and suddenly felt something hard in my mouth (keep your minds on the curb, please!) It was a piece of my left lower second molar. This tooth was pretty much gutted and filled with a load of amalgam back in the 1980's, and the dentist said it would last for about 20 years or so. Well, I guess he was right. Now I have to go to the dentist here and, I suspect, have the tooth pulled. I don't think that there's enough left to put a crown on it. Crumbs!