CLOMP! CLOMP!! CLOMP!!!

SHIP'S LOG:

     Any nostalgic glamour that anyone might feel toward having a peg-leg, disburse yourself of it! Since Tuesday, I have sort of had a "peg-leg," a split-cast on my lower left leg and have been clomping around "the Hermitage." I have to use a walker so along with the clomp of the cast on the floor and the muffled thud of my other foot, there aluminum clinking of the walker. I have been lucky in that there has not been much in the way of pain. The down side of that is that it is easy to try and do too much and it gets exhausting and when I do too much, I end up having to nap for several hours. It's not easy to do so and keep your leg elevated.

      And then there's the shower. I can't get the leg and the dressing wet. Do so and you run the risk of an infection developing in the wound. It happen to my sister. So for a few days, I made do with baby wipes and while they work OK, sometimes you just need the shower.  I waited until I began to smell like a Yak, then wrapped a garbage bag around my cast, double taped it is place and took the shower. Not as easy as it sounds as the bag made it seem that I was standing on ice and doing so with the bad leg. it was a bit of job getting the shower do without falling, but all the effort was worth it to smell human again.

     It will be a little more than a week until the cast gets unwrapped and hopefully removed. It will undoubtedly be replaced by some sort of walking boot/cast/splint. And hopefully I will find that the the surgery was a success.