Comments on: Don’t Look if You’re Squeamish

By: Mary

Mary — Fri, 16 Jul 2010 02:45:19 +0000

Well, you can always tell people you were asking about a Claymore and given the opportunity to hold one you were getting a feel for it when it slipped and just nicked your knee! Lucky you didn't go through the bone, the thing was that heavy! Wasn't exactly the way you wanted to "experience" a war wound after all. (Much laughter for the stories you can contrive. Feeling sorry for the painful recovery period that follows).

By: Spruce Hill

Spruce Hill — Mon, 12 Jul 2010 19:45:30 +0000

Just reading about your surgery hope you are on the mend!

http://sprucehill.typepad.com/

By: Diana Gabaldon

Diana Gabaldon — Thu, 08 Jul 2010 17:02:10 +0000

Dear Aislinn--

It's luckily not stapled at all. The surgeon used an internal running-stitch suture to close the lower layer of skin (they pulled that yesterday), and used glue and steri-strips to close the upper layers.

The steri-strips are still clinging like iron. [g]

By: TeeHee

TeeHee — Fri, 02 Jul 2010 12:03:58 +0000

I have a scar very similar to that! IT heals fst, expecially if you keep it moving! Good luck with the new bionic knee! Tee Hee

By: Aislinn

Aislinn — Wed, 30 Jun 2010 17:03:41 +0000

I'm a little jealous of your beautiful incision. Mine was remarkably nasty including all 40 of the staples. LOL Glad to see you are recovering nicely.

By: Stephanie

Stephanie — Wed, 30 Jun 2010 03:07:46 +0000

That's not as bad as my husband's back after his 2nd back surgery and the infection clean out that came after. He had an open wound that had to be packed twice a day by a private nurse for about 2 months. I think I've got a picture here somewhere…..

By: Yolanda

Yolanda — Tue, 29 Jun 2010 23:58:22 +0000

So glad you're doing well, of course. I can't help it…the first thing that sprang to mind when I looked at the photo was, "I wonder how being sliced open (and the subsequent recovery) will affect DG's writing about Claire's patients?" Happy to hear that you have plans to hoof it out to the battlefields soon. Seems odd, but I've been told that the best way to speed recuperation is to exercise the joint.

By: dogahilic

dogahilic — Tue, 29 Jun 2010 04:15:18 +0000

Wanna see mine? It's here:
http://mysite.verizon.net/dogaholic/id23.html
about 1/3 of the way down on the left. 11 days postop, just over 3 years ago. I'm fine now, even riding my mountain bike in the dirt and pumping iron. You'll be great, I promise!

By: jazzmomma

jazzmomma — Fri, 25 Jun 2010 20:43:20 +0000

Happy recovery – I hope this means lots of ice cream

By: Irene Paulton

Irene Paulton — Wed, 23 Jun 2010 20:41:34 +0000

Oh that looks like a good job was done – and yes, your doctors are correct, the partial one takes less recovery time than a full one or arthroscopy. I had the latter done some years ago and it took me 3 -4 weeks of intense physio to get it working really well. So long as you work at it, you should be fine pretty quickly. Ready? Now tense the knee, hold for 1,2, 3, 4, 5 – and relax. Now repeat 5 more – and that's before breakfast!

No, you will be fine – nice job. Now is a great time to do plenty more reading/research for book 8!