68 bar steady 29.65 2mph ESE dew-point 56 Beltane, Sunny and sort of warm
First Quarter of the Flower Moon
“Mishaps are like knives, that either serve us or cut us, as we grasp them by the blade or the handle.” – James Russell Lowell
My docent friend, Bill Bomash, fell 10 feet into a culvert at a mountainside home in Brazil. He had gone there to visit a friend who had recently completed his new house. I wrote about him a couple of months ago. He had two weeks in an all Portugese speaking hospital after the intial orthopedic surgery because he developed an infection, not unusual when a lot of hardware goes into the bone. This happened in January. He faced six months of recovery when he finally got back to Minnesota in early February.
Now this:
Hi everybody. Well I got some disappointing news the other day. I’ve been having more pain in my leg and when I went into the doctor he said that he thought the hardware in my leg was failing. As a result, there was too much movement in the bone. I’m going into the hospital again on Monday for surgery to remove all the hardware and have a rod inserted through the bone to hold it in place. I’m afraid it’s pretty much back to square one.
It looks like it will be quite a while yet before I can return to touring.
I’ll get back to you with an update after the surgery and I have returned back home.
In a much more modest instance I had three months of recovery after surgery to repair my ruptured Achilles tendon. It drove me nuts. Six months after the initial break Bill now faces another six months of recovery. Geez.
Off to Costsco for dogfood, then chainsaw Charlie will emerge and start whacking off limbs. Of trees.
