The end of a long week

I made several stops today to Sams Club, Vons, and Stater Bros to accumalate the groceries needed and to make sure that this weekend the bbq'ing options were good for several nights. The fridge is now overflowing with lean ground beef for burgers, ribeye steaks, ear corn, baking potatoes... and than Laker games a couple of nights for entertainment.

Hand status: This week has been a long one having started last week on Friday with the morning hand surgery.. simple procedure.. but than on Tuesday it was confirmed that it would take a little bit of work to get the tissue/tendons moving normally as they were the consistency of cement.. a side effect of surgery at times, and being diabetic an easily decided reason. So after four days of 24/7 wearing of the traction contraption (see last blog) and some daily physical therapy and massage, today it is much improved. I am given the lattitude to not have to wear it full time and to have longer breaks between, but the fingers do droop mid knuckle when it's off for long and so for now I can't go crazy with the break time.. The P/T Stephanie said to expect 3-4 weeks of tenderness in the hand muscles. Next Tuesday I will have the stitches removed. Turns out that she graduated from Azusa Pacific Masters program in 2001, and so we had a nice conversation about the school and how she as a seventh day adventist school grad (???) was impressed that it was a christian college with high standards but not the kind that had any legalism to it.

My appt on Thursday with the spinal surgeon Dr. Ravasoud wrapped up the "talk" and Veronica his assistant is now coordinating the details necessary for scheduling it. Right now the plan is to get the surgery setup for early June on a Monday of the 8th or 15th.. Next week I should know what worked out between the two doctors; as the vascular Dr Brian Acker is the other surgeon that will participate. While I dread the process for me and for Greg, I am expecting excellent results to be walking again whether short or long distances and absolutely without any of the pain I've been enduring. And with any luck the end of my bad streak medically.