I’ve gone lame. I haven’t started drinking Pappy Van Winkle with Dr. Pepper or using Highland Park 18 in whiskey sours. I’ve got a bad ankle on my right foot. It’s a reoccurring ligament injury that goes back at least as far as college. There’s even some argument that it goes all the way back to elementary school. This last go around I finally tore it in half (the ligament, not my ankle). So surgery is the only course of action at this point. Friday is the day.
Why am I telling you all this? I’ll be out of commission for a couple weeks while the pain subsides and the ankle starts to heal. While I’m on the DL I’ll be on heavy medication. Apparently, you’re not supposed to drink with said medication. I’ll also be pretty loopy too. I try not to blog under the influence of heavy narcotics. I know it’s hard to believe coming from a whiskey blogger but I like to be lucid when I write this stuff.
I’ve got several reviews queued up for the rest of the month and if I can kick this damn head cold I’ll get in a couple of bourbon reviews and my review of The Mackinlay before I go under the knife. I may not be too responsive for the next couple of weeks but hopefully I’ll be extra responsive after that. It’s my right ankle so I can’t drive or really go anywhere for the next couple of months. That should leave me with a lot of time for whiskey reviews, blogging, email, etc.
Hey, at least I’m not a thoroughbred. If I was I might be off to the glue factory!
Drink wisely my friends,
Richard
Hoping for a speedy recovery, Richard. Not sure I could go that long without whisky!
Thanks! Hopefully the whiskey-free stint will only be the first two weeks. I’ll definitely have to pick something special off the shelf to celebrate.