Me and My Hockey Playing Podiatrist

 I went to see my hockey playing podiatrist today for the fourth and final visit on the walnut sized corns on the bottom of my feet. I found out today that my podiatrist graduated from Yale. and his brother is the hockey coach to another Ivy League university. With that background not only do my feet get healed we got in a damn fine discussion of Radius of Hollow (ROH) of hockey versus figure skating. How many of your doctors can make your painful day of minor surgery go easier by talking about ROH?

These feet, plus a scapael, plus some acid, and 2 weeks of limping. 

As my podiatrist hands me my socks he says, " I'm perfectly fine with a half inch ROH." 

"I like my 15/32 inch ROH perfect for the first time skating after a sharpening."

"My sharpener was my barber when I was a kid."

I laughed. "His skills with his blades, were they THAT good?" 

"He was a professional sharpener before he switched to barberin." He made wry grin."And he was a bookie. He used to cut my brother's hair too short on the left side while he took bets with the phone in his right hand."

 My sharpeners never did anything like that!!

What corner can I skate in?

 I'm back taking lessons, after the horrible 2023 winter, and multi-month closure of the rink for repairs, and I realize that have forgotten many  of the rink etiquette rules. Now I realize that I've forgotten which corners I can skate in without someone jumping into me. 

So I skate up to one of our adult male skaters , he who I know has a lutz and so must know the rules. So I confess, "It's been 3 years since I've been on ice regularly, and I've forgotten the lutz corner rule here. Which ones are clear to skate on?"

I saw him give me a big happy grin.I have a blog I write about rink etiquette and he read it when it was pre-covid, so I assume he's amused at my failure to remember. I'm okay that I'm so funny that I made someone so happy at the near end of the session

 He's really enjoying himself. 

The laugh gets even bigger.

"So, what's so funny?" I asked. 

His laugh finally stops. " I jump lefty. so I don't care."

He's just so so so HAPPY that he's ticked me off.

Someday I will get my revenge!

I''m back on the ICE!!

I've been off the ice for nearly 3 years. Yesterday, with the approval of my physical therapist, and a Canadian  physician  I skated for 30 minutes! ( Sorry medical issues are off-topic.)

And just to make it clear, the  Doc had the nicest pair  of hockey legs I've ever seen  in doctor whites.  I mean 'kiss kiss' good looking. When he told me to raise my legs as high I could--I told him to 'stand back'  (because doctors  don't expect 70 year old women to be able to kick their chins off if they stand too close). And he said, "Yes you are a figure skater." Damn right.

Anyway, on the ice I did some lap skating,  two foot turn back, two foot turn forward, and two spins forward and backward. 

AND NO GRABBING THE BOARDS!! 

STANDING UP ALL THE WAY ROUND!