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.