Day 9 Stranded on the Island

Actually I'm not so much stranded as heavily restricted. Now I know how that queen of homemakers (not Rachel Ray people!)and female white collar crime trailblazer Martha Stewart felt with that pesky electronic bracelet on. Of course my leg exerciser requires me to be reclined a minimum of 6 hours daily( some people would seize on this as excuse to eat bonbons and watch Oprah-not I)But it's still hard to find a nice outfit to go with it. Speaking of that, what is with the medical supply design teams? In an era when appliances come in fabu colors like Stem,Pumpkinseed and Gargle(a pale blue with a touch green,duh)how come sick people get to look at the same nasty ass colors that have been around for 50 yrs with the occasional royal blue thrown in. Did anyone tell hospitals that mauve is no longer au courant and that grey and light blue are not the perfect compliments for mauve unless you are trying to induce vomitting for a medical emergency!Sorry to those of you who have notupdated your decor since the 80's-just call it retro! Then there's crutches. Mmm-silver with ugly grey rubber pads or silver with gross flesh colored pads,how's a girl to choose?? Maybe it's incentive to get us off crutches sooner. Anyone who's on crutches realizes that that being on crutches is all the incentive a person needs to get off them.However, my friend S (my ACL tear twin)will be on crutches 4 weeks longer than me (due to a near fracture of her tibia right where they need to attach the ACL)and deserves better choices than flesh or gray. I actually schlepped S to another store for the "more attractive"(are you kidding?) gray rubber (good choice S!)because the flesh was just too disturbing to look at. Now we get to the brace-how 'bout some color people! If you break your arm you can now have 7 different colors of cast wrappings. Cast wrappings that will get written on, start to stink after 3 days and eventually be thrown in the trash. Worse things may happen if you're on out-of-it drugs. Your friends (supporting the phrase "if you take the R out of friends it spells fiends") may color your cast completely black and super glue a wooden panda head to it,but I digress. Braces should come in at least a few color choices or patterns. I mean heck there's a whole bunch of teeny bopper/teenage athletes who are constantly hurting themselves in the pursuit of their parent's Olympic goals who really deserve something cute to wear on the bench. Plus you get to keep your brace. If it were a car or Crocs you'd be picking accesories for it. Maybe when you were done you could even sell it on Ebay(eew yucky!).
I will give credit to the wheel chair industry who is finally making light weight chromacolor wheelchairs that come in such awesome shades I've actually been compelled to compliment people on their wheels! Maybe there's still hope for the rest of the industry.
One last suggestion. Could the orthodontic industry please stop making those disgusting colored rubberbands? If I wanted my kids to have green,orange and black on their teeth I'd feed them spinach,pixie stixs and black jelly beans -and skip the every 6 month dental visits!
Oh yeah- as promisde here's a sentancd typed whl e th elaptop is on the mov e,Unedited! (ya think?)