What a Difference a Week Makes

This is the scene a week ago looking east out of my office window.

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Bright sunshine (that means very cold) and friend, Al, has cleared our driveway.

Seven days later.  The weather has warmed and rain has changed the view.

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It’s mid-afternoon and there is still fog over the field behind our barn.  Rain forecast for the rest of today and all of tomorrow.

Personal Notes

On the follow-up visit to the podiatrist after surgery.  He removed the original dressings around the foot.  Then he wrapped it up in a soft cast, which was topped off with a colorful (and tight) wrap.

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The tight cast and wrap did their job of reducing swelling in the foot and lower leg.  Last week, the doctor removed the cast and its colorful adornment.  He smiled when he saw my foot and said, “You’re healing like a teenager.”  Sure made me feel good–and I agreed things are going better than I had hoped.

Another month, and he’ll remove the two wires that skewer my big toe and keep it connected to the foot.

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About Chuck

I am retired after a career in electronics and in publishing. Today, my wife of 50+ years, Sylvia, and I live in a house on a hill beside a dirt road in rural west Michigan. We enjoy living in this country environment where livestock and wild life out number the human population.

10 thoughts on “What a Difference a Week Makes

  1. Glad the report is good. Sounds better than the recovery time from the last one. Yeah, we’ve gone from poor skiing to no skiing. Walking is ok, but the views are brown and wet.

    • This recovery is working out even better than I had hoped. Rain here has filled the ditches. The culvert that runs under our road near the nearest intersection could not handle the flow. Sylvia reported a few inches of water flowing over the road.

  2. Yea!! The foot looks good and the report even better! I’m glad you are healing well. You will be up and about in no time.

    We had the same weather—tons of snow, which has since been replaced with a small lake in the backyard.

    • Thanks, Lin. I think you had at least twice as much snow as we had. This weather makes a mess out of the dirt road that we live beside.

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