{"id":14036,"date":"2017-05-27T18:05:24","date_gmt":"2017-05-27T17:05:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/blog\/?p=14036"},"modified":"2017-05-27T18:05:24","modified_gmt":"2017-05-27T17:05:24","slug":"flutes-and-buckles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/?p=14036","title":{"rendered":"Flutes and buckles"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Six weeks ago today I had a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/blog\/?p=13875\">slight mishap<\/a> while ice skating in London, and managed to dislocate and fracture my ankle &#8211; both the <strong>tibia<\/strong> (shin bone) and <strong>fibula<\/strong> (calf bone).<\/p>\n<p>The word <strong>tibia<\/strong> comes from the Latin <em>t\u012bbia<\/em> (shin bone, leg). It originally referred to a stalk, or reed pipe, and came to mean shin bone as flutes were originally made with shin bones. It is possibly connected to the Ancient Greek word \u03c3\u03af\u03c6\u03c9\u03bd (s\u00edph\u014dn &#8211; siphon, tube) [<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wiktionary.org\/wiki\/tibia\">source<\/a>].<\/p>\n<p>The word <strong>fibula<\/strong> comes from the Latin <em>f\u012bbula<\/em> (clasp, buckle, brooch), from <em>f\u012b(g\u014d)<\/em> (to fasten), and <em>-bula<\/em> (a suffix denoting instrument, vessel, place, or person) [<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wiktionary.org\/wiki\/fibula\">source<\/a>].<\/p>\n<p>My bones should be healed by now &#8211; it usually takes about six weeks. I went to the local hospital a few weeks ago for a check-up. They x-rayed my ankle, took off the plaster cast, gave me a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ossur.co.uk\/injury-solutions\/products\/foot-and-ankle\/walkers\/form-fit-walker\">special orthopedic boot<\/a>. They said that my ankle is healing well. I&#8217;ll be going back there in just over a week. In the meantime, I&#8217;ve started to experiment with putting more weight on my injured leg, using just one crutch, or walking without the crutches. I can does this quite well, though still need the crutches for stairs and steps.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve adapted as best I can to having reduced mobility. It&#8217;s frustrating not being able to walk four or five miles a day, as I usually do, but I hope to be able to do that again soon. Some things, like grocery shopping, are difficult, so I order stuff online and had it delivered. I&#8217;ve noticed that many places are not very accessible, and that simple things like doors can be tricky to manage on crutches, especially if they have strong springs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Six weeks ago today I had a slight mishap while ice skating in London, and managed to dislocate and fracture my ankle &#8211; both the tibia (shin bone) and fibula (calf bone). The word tibia comes from the Latin t\u012bbia (shin bone, leg). It originally referred to a stalk, or reed pipe, and came to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[104,107,8,118,10,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14036","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english","category-etymology","category-general","category-greek","category-language","category-latin"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14036","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14036"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14036\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14036"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14036"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14036"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}