I don't know what I'd do without DU.
I said before I’m kind of laid up with a broken foot so I’m bored and anxious and obsessed over the election and the storm. Here I can vent and laugh and get information and just feel understood. In a world full of intimate strangers you all really do feel like friends and contentious family. I appreciate you more than you know. 
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I lean on DU a lot too. Especially with this election stressing me out to the max.
Here’s to happy, fast and total healing.
Where would we be without each other? I hope your healing is swift and complete.
DU has been my internet home. I would be lost without y'all.
Remember the 2016 election? I about went into a panic when DU got hacked!!
Third, fourth and fifth metatarsals, dancing.
No fun at all! I had to have my cast replaced three times because I kept walking on it. Bad me!
The last time the doctor said go home and keep it propped up and learn how to play baseball from watching it on TV.
I'd never even played but I learned the game that summer.
I hope you get well soon, nolabear! Love you back.
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I suddenly feel my dancing efforts have been woefully pedestrian. 
the ER it was so swollen that they had to cut my leather shoe off. I hated that. Maybe more than I hated breaking my foot.
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Maybe I can tell people I was dancing…
Sounds so much better than "I broke my toe unicycling" 😜
Better than aspirin.
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A couple of years ago I broke my leg and ankle.
I'm terribly accident prone. Since I was three. So many accidents.
Then I bought a Stool on wheels. I'm sorry you can't use a scooter thing to ride around. The Stool was actually cheaper and smaller. I zoomed around. It was actually fun. I'm a bit silly though.
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couldn't have said it better.
So glad you're here!
Shoot, I’ve known you for over twenty years! That’s a long time. Like you, I’m so grateful for DU and the hope and comfort it has given us all.
Hope your foot heals soon!
You need to be able to dance for joy on Election Night!
I think I found DU around 2004. I was a lurker, but I couldn't go to bed without checking in. Come to think of it, I still get my work done and then I get to come here and enjoy the conversation and community. I lost my login to my first account, but my user name was about the same. I was usually too tired to comment much – until after retiring in 2011.
Your voice is one I always enjoy, even when I don't comment. I'm sorry to hear about the foot and the boredom.
Get better soon, please. Hope you and all of us are dancing before long.
I fractured an ankle. It was a bad break, and required surgery. So I know what you're going through, and how miserable it was. The good news is that all the rest was worth it, because my ankle now works without problem.
I now vote my mail in the Chicago area, where I expect my ballot won't be subject to dirty tricks. Despite that, I have been climbing the walls about getting my ballot. A few hours ago, I got an email saying that it's now in the mail. I'm relieved.
Anyway, I love that I can come to DU and share my anxiety over this election...and many other things. I've been here 23 years, and if it suddenly disappeared, I don't know what I'd do. DU keeps me sane.
Hope your foot heals quickly, nolabear.
Of course I’m old so there’s that. 
I would be lost without DU
Even with two good feet I could never kick ass like you can. 
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Besides I like a place where I can gripe about politics without associating it with my irl identity.
Dont like to attract the attention of strangers irl..
I never got the social media thing. Don’t want would be doxxers nor greasy data capitalists knowing one exists.I am a wary sort of person 
. But I am interested in politics.
Thankfully, the admins keep this site pretty secure.
And one gets to know the various posters’ personalities over time without any need for actual names or identities.
Feel better nolabear ..hope your foot heals soon!
get better!
Get better soon!
*Chews nails..............................
