Thursday, April 23, 2015

Racing stripe

My double chin is a bit off center
This would cover a few flaws
Well, it is Thursday.  I am out of the hospital as of last night.  I have both ears, contrary to that stupid dream I had.  I;m a little loopy.  The graft looks very strange but they tell me that is normal at first.  I'm not sure if they meant that the graft usually looks strange or that I look strange.  The later is fairly certain.  Right now the graft area in the neck is really large.  It looks like they took the double chins off of a whole room full of high priests pasted them on my neck.  Oh, well, there goes my chances at the beauty pageant.  I guess I will just have to excel in the swimsuit division.  JoLynne talked about having me wear a Arabic turbin.  That could be cool but I would want a scimitar to go with it for sure.

Racing stripe
My right thigh is....different.  They took a huge chunk out to rebuild everything.  From my hip to my knee.  And then some dang fancy stiching.  I guess the microvascular surgeon told them that he didn't think it would be possible to sew it closed.  I think that must be like operating room trash talk or something. So, two surgeons jumped on my leg with suture needles flying.  At least that is how I remember it but I was asleep.   Needless to say, they got it closed.  It's tight though and I have to be careful how I move it for now.  Shortly after I woke up JoLynne said "Do you want to see your leg?"  I was still drugged or or I probably would have said "No".  But she showed me.  The first thing I thought when I saw it was "Hey, a racing stripe!"  I can walk but very slowly and it helps to lean on something.

I am having a little trouble controlling the movement in my right eye.  Because of that, I was wearing an eye patch last night when my granddaughter Vivian called.  She took one look at me in the computer and said. "Grandpa, I want to see both of your eyeballs"  I told her why I had a bandage on my eye, she thought about that for a minute and said "Okay, I want to see grandma then"  That's okay, we will get it all figured out.  They arrive here on Saturday.  I am sure looking forward to that.

6 comments:

  1. Hang in there! We're pulling for you!

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  2. Many prayers and thoughts your way, Uncle Eric & family!! You are a trooper and a huge inspiration to many more than you know. I love you.

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    1. Candace, how did you get so amazingly sweet and caring. I love you Candace

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  3. I'm not sure about the swimsuit contest but the coolest scar contest is in the bag!!!!
    We are so glad the surgery went well and are praying for you everyday!! Hugs to you and Jolynne! From the Borens

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    1. Okay, truth is I never did look that good in a swimsuit except in my dreams. You are right. I have scars. I guess it will have to a pirates life for me.

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