Millimeter by millimeter
A bit blurry because I snapped this photo of my hand in training for a bionic woman movie with my left hand. I am amazed at what medicine can do today. I am also staggered that they still use these Heath Robinson devices that might’ve been designed in the 19th century.
Anyway, I am thankful for living just six or 7 miles away from one of the best hospitals in Mexico City, for handy wipes, for frozen vegetables, for clothes without zippers or buttons, for my local beauty salon for hair washing, for Dragon Dictate for writing, for the squirrels that entertain me by using the leaves of the cheese plant as launching pads to the next tree, for the taxi drivers of Mexico City who are so uniformly helpful and patient, for sunny afternoons when I can do my hand exercises in the garden, for my stash of interesting books that I carefully guard for emergencies, for a radial nerve that mends itself millimeter by millimeter, and for all your help and support, whether delivering stuffed grape leaves and roast fillet in Mexico City, or sending messages and music from much further afield.
Five weeks on now, and the with luck I will have the full use of my hand back in another two months. I hope to start blogging well before then.
Yes. Give thanks! So glad things are moving forward and you’re doing better.
Hurrah on feeling better and doing more!
The Heath Robinson “device” does look rather like a torture instrument though….
Rachel, Your fingers seem to be on the up and up already. Soon enough. Let me know if there’s anything I can send you. Really, I’d be very happy to, maybe not a casserole. but if you really ask nicely, who knows?
Yours, Ken
Well, it sounds like you are really doing as best as can be under the circumstances. That “cast” indeed does look like something out of science fiction. Best wishes for a continued recovery.
This news is FANTASTIC!!! … and, THX4 the pic which is at once horrifying and entertaining. I’m sending best wishes and hopes constantly.
kay
All the best glad you are on the mend.
Nice picuture, “Cyborg with Bougainvillea”. Very pleased to hear that the hand is mending well.
Yegads! I have my head buried in work and just came to see what I’d missed on your blog and this photo greets me. Mamma mia!!!!
So happy to hear you are on the mend, but I can relate, at least a little. I had an out of commission thumb, and I complained about my cast?? You have me beat…hands down. Sorry, bad pun.
Thanks for the sympathy which I lap up! Your blog does make you sound very busy.
Wishing you a speedy convalescence, Rachel!
Good wishes, get well soon!!!!