Angry Ankles

My feet and ankles really did take a beating, and they are still swollen.  I posted a picture a couple of days ago- scroll down- but there's a story there:

My host Patrick gave me some cream to soothe them- you know,  one of those minty, therapeutic, cold/hot deals- and I put a bunch of ice in a plastic sack and put them up on the footstool.  aahhh.....

Then I shifted the ice pack and AHHHHH..... my legs were violently black and red!  I had a momentary horror that my feet actually LOOKED like that, and then we realized that the strong minty cream had dissolved the ink on the plastic bag!  (It was once of those "I heart New York" bags, hence the black and the red).

Pretty impressive, though, huh?