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    Update

    …and it is all good 😊

    They did the skin graft on Monday. They took the skin off my left thigh. I had a vacuum pump hooked up to the wound on my right leg which pulled the drainage out of the area. As of this morning that is now removed and I have a conventional dressing on the wound site. The donor site is still draining but does not have a pump hooked up. Both are healing as expected.

    Because of a “non-specific abnormality” in a routine EKG I had a stress test yesterday---totally unexpected----and I passed that with flying colors----I got a clean bill of health on my heart 😊

    So-----while I don’t have a time table for the remainder of this journey it is going in the right direction and I am optimistic about my healing and return to normal.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Dave Grubb View Post
    …return to normal.
    Some would say it's about time......

    Seriously Dave, that's good news......Ben
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    The donor site usually hurts the worst because the nurves there have been severed. Happy to hear it’s going according to Hoyle.
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    Cool Beans, Dave. Wish a speedy recovery.
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    Yes, it is all good, Dave.

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    Good News.
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    Good to hear! You now what they say about objects at rest, time to get back on your feet.
    This is your mind on drugs!

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    Great news Dave, hope it all heals up fine and dandy with no more problems. Waco is right, the donor site is a bigger pain than the original wound.

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    Good news!
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    No more nasty-assed pictures, please. That last one was a mind-bender!
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    Quote Originally Posted by wacojoe View Post
    No more nasty-assed pictures, please. That last one was a mind-bender!
    My leg didn't much like it either

    Release date now is tomorrow
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    Hope that you are feeling better and healing quickly..

    And I agree.. that is one nasty ass picture..

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    Thanks Sandman.

    I'm still working on getting out of here. I have a bacteria colonization on the wound site that they want to get under control before sending me home----I am hopeful for tomorrow.

    I did just have a shower and washed the donor site--I am grateful to be able to say I am close to pain free now
    "A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity, an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty” ---Sir Winston Churchill
    "Political extremism involves two prime ingredients: an excessively simple diagnosis of the world's ills, and a conviction that there are identifiable villains back of it all." ---John W. Gardner
    “You can’t go back and change the beginning, but you can start where you are and change the ending.” ---C. S. Lewis

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    Quote Originally Posted by Dave Grubb View Post
    ...I am close to pain free now
    Surprisingly excellent...keep it that way.
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