quid est quod fuit ipsum quod futurum est quid est quod factum est ipsum quod fiendum est nihil sub sole novum nec valet quisquam dicere ecce hoc recens est iam enim praecessit in saeculis quae fuerunt ante nos.
Or, in more colloquial english:
Everything that happens has happened before; nothing is new, nothing under the sun.
Someone might say, “Here is something new!” But it happened before, long before we were born.
16th century german Caspar Huberinus, not Ovid, as it’s frequently attributed to, but I do believe that it fits Ovid’s themes.
From Fasti, VI, lines 771-772:
Tempora labuntur, tacitisque senescimus annis,
et fugiunt freno non remorante dies.
More colloquially:
The times slip away, and we grow old with the silent years,
and the days flee unchecked by a rein.
Hubernius rendered it as:
Tempora labuntur, tacitisque senescimus annis;
If there is one difference between my right foot surgery compared to my left foot surgery, it’s been the pain. Or rather, the great deal less pain.
My left foot hurt a lot, and I was taking pain medication fairly regularly for at least the first month. I think I was at taking 1 Percocet every 6 hours that entire month, especially after I started working again. The hours of remaining sitting with my leg propped up did not exactly feel great.
Since the left foot went so darned well (no, seriously, my surgeon was fantastic and recovery went really REALLY easy), it’s time to do the other foot!
Yeah.
Ok, enthusiasm off for a moment–don’t get me wrong, I am most definitely enthusiastic about this. Otherwise, why go through the entire painful process all over again.
I’m not looking forward to months of being completely reliant on other people for transportation. And I don’t mean just having to use the scooter if I want to move from point a to point b, no, I mean more the whole “if someone doesn’t drive me to where I want to go, I’m not going”.