68\u00a0 bar steady 29.65\u00a0 2mph\u00a0 ESE\u00a0 dew-point 56\u00a0 Beltane, Sunny and sort of warm<\/p>\n
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“Mishaps are like knives, that either serve us or cut us, as we grasp them by the blade or the handle.” – James Russell Lowell<\/a><\/p>\n My docent friend, Bill Bomash, fell 10 feet into a culvert at a mountainside home in Brazil.\u00a0 He had gone there to visit a friend who had recently completed his new house.\u00a0 I wrote about him a couple of months ago.\u00a0 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.\u00a0 This happened in January.\u00a0 He faced six months of recovery when he finally got back to Minnesota in early February.\u00a0<\/p>\n Now this:<\/p>\n Hi everybody. \u00a0Well I got some disappointing news the other day. \u00a0I\u2019ve 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. \u00a0As a result, there was too much movement in the bone. I\u2019m 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\u2019m afraid it\u2019s pretty much back to square one. In a much more modest instance I had three months of recovery after surgery to repair my ruptured Achilles tendon.\u00a0 It drove me nuts.\u00a0\u00a0Six months after the initial break Bill now faces another six months of recovery.\u00a0 Geez.<\/p>\n Off to Costsco for dogfood, then chainsaw Charlie will emerge and start whacking off limbs.\u00a0 Of trees.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" 68\u00a0 bar steady 29.65\u00a0 2mph\u00a0 ESE\u00a0 dew-point 56\u00a0 Beltane, Sunny and sort of warm \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 First Quarter of the Flower Moon\u00a0 “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 … Continue reading A Bad Break<\/span>
\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0It looks like it will be quite a while yet before I can return to touring.
\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0I\u2019ll get back to you with an update after the surgery and I have returned back home.<\/font><\/p>\n