S Day tommorrow

Tomorrow, I'm having a surgery that will, I hop, launch me on the road to recovery.  Today, my hand/arm was good enough that I made soup for dinner.  Stock from the left-over chicken Annie brought is last week, during the early afternoon and the soup later.  I used the cutting board for disabled persons that Hunter brought me, and chopped onion, carrots and celery.  I managed to wrestle the bread maker out of a cupboard, never mind the stock pot.  This is, of course, the best my arm/hand are going to be for a month, since I'm hoping to wake up from tomorrow's surgery with a splint on my hand from tendon reconstruction surgery.  That will last at least three weeks.  So, it will be February before I'm even back to where I am now, let alone better.


Still, hope is an amazing thing.  And just knowing that this surgery will happen leaves me upbeat. 

• Yes, the lattice work graft that Reid described is not going to be as pretty as the short-lived graft I got in August.  But it should heal with fewer risks.  And honestly after the last four months, it's not being beautiful is OK, as long as it closes up the hole in my arm, and doesn't get infected.
• Yes, I'm a little nervous about Reid's split thickness graft healing procedure, where he wants it to dry out and scab up.  Yuck. And, sounds itchy, and more likely to make a gnarly scar.  But, given that my donor site is not still not completely healed, I guess may be I need to do this as a comparison to see which approach is really better.  What I want most is for him to decide that there's still on my right thigh for a graft so that he doesn't have to use the left.  With the latter, I'll have a lame right arm and a lame left leg and will get no sleep at all for the first couple weeks!
• And yes I'm a little nervous about tying my one finger's tendon to another.  This cascade of permanent disabilities freaks me out.  But, it also sure seems like it will improve the current situation.

So, fingers crossed.  Bring it on.