Injury Report

I want to thank you all for your kind notes regarding my injury. It's very heartening to know so many people are thinking about me. I'm also pleased that you have been so accepting of my little txtmssg notes that I have been leaving at your blogs. I was so happy to have your blogs to read after the surgery when anything more was too much activity. I wanted to respond even though typing was trying. (Still is.)

I have done very little stitching. When the injury was numb, fresh after the surgery, I managed to do a little work--I did have to pop the project into the q-snaps, but otherwise no problems stitching those two lengths of floss. Since the numbing medicine wore off (3 a.m. Saturday), I have had to stitch with my left hand. This has slowed me considerably. Everything has been moving slower. As with any injury or handicap, you (eventually) find ways to adapt, but you have to settle for working longer or harder for it. Typing, for instance. I have trouble with "ik," and can't hit u, i, or o with accuracy so I've been much slower of late. Still beats handwriting, which is just ridiculous...and people keep asking me to sign things.

I saw the doctor today and he tortured me removed the bandages to have a look. He said it all looks very good. The resident thought things were very promising for not having the second graft. 50-50 he said. He must be a giant pessimist, because 50-50 doesn't sound that great to me. Everyone--the surgeon, the resident, the fellow--said it looked good. The fellow taught me how to re-dress the wound, since I will have to do it daily. She thought it might be a good idea for me to look at it, so I finally have. It wasn't as nausea-inducing as I feared. It does look better than my foot did when the podiatrist told me that it looked great.



Thanks again for all your good wishes. Although my recovery will take a few months, I'll try not to abandon the blog. Keep writing because my stitching thrills will be coming vicariously for a while.