Whippet's Magic Crystals

I got an email yesterday from Whippet Man describing what he likes to do with Lectric Soda Crystals and his wife's pantyhose (well, I'm assuming they're his wife's... perhaps he buys them for himself. :-p ). Anyway, it sounded like it might be fun, so I tried it last night, and whaddayaknow, (*laughs*) it appears to have worked!

I can now see my ankle bone, and the swelling around the ankle has gone down considerably. Hard to know, of course, whether it would have gone down without the crystals, but the top of the foot down by the toes is still as swollen as ever - and that wasn't covered last night.

The idea is to hold the Lectric Soda Crystals (sodium carbonate) against the swollen area (wrapped in a pantyhose "sock" and held loosely in place with a crepe bandage - I also wore a large woollen sock to keep everything intact) and this draws the fluid out of the ankle and into the crystals... and the bandage, and the sock, and onto the sheet(!). Be warned. :-)

A quick Google finds lots of hits on this phenomenon, including this thread from CR.

Street-O tonight. No, I'm not going. But I am going a bit stir-crazy with not being able to do anything. And it's only been 3 days! Even on days when I don't do any official (bloggable) "exercise", I still go for a 2-3km walk at lunchtime - and I haven't even been able to do that much. Might go for a swim tonight.