National Elf Service

( old KoC post )

Surveyor of all I king... erm.

Pick up the nearest book and write a sentence at random from it:
( Gone was the morose, pessimistic, death-haunted Worsel entirely; gay, happy, carefree, and actually frolicsome - if you can imagine a thirty-foot-long, crocodile-headed, leather-winged python as being frolicsome! )

Quiz: What is your Medieval name?

*hand-staple-forehead*

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Your medieval name is: Millicent. It's gothic and age-old and it suggests a darkness. You posses this darkness and you may study witchcraft or you may just be the queen of shadows. Whatever you are, you're dark and alone...

What is your Medieval name?

First check-up...

Went back to the hospital this morning for my first official check-up (previous return trips were just ad-hoc changing of bandages etc). After a fairly perfunctory examination the doctor who is in charge of my skin graft pronounced it well enought to be left out in the open, as the last couple of icky spots are small enough that they'll heal better for getting some air rather than needing to be kept 101% sterile under loads of dressings.

It looks pretty weird - you can quite clearly see veins running just under the surface of the new skin, as there's no subcutaneous fat layer between the top layer of skin and the muscle tissue that would usually be half a centimeter or so further in. It feels really smooth to touch... still no sensation in that part of my leg though so it's a bit odd touching it and not feeling where your finger is.

Anyway, TMI probably. The basics are that my skin graft seems to be healing as well as could be expected, and my bones aren't yet doing anything noticeable in the way of healing which is also much as expected. Next appointment is in 6 weeks, roughly 3 months after the day of the surgery on the bones, at which time they'll be doing x-rays and hoping to see early signs of healing from the bones...

Update: From time to time my leg itches, as skin generally does when healing up. However, on occasion my leg itches in one of the areas that has no feeling in it. How the hell am I supposed to relieve that sensation - I can't scratch it because I can't feel my fingernails running over the skin! Bah.

*snerk*

Just found a much better quote in this book I'm reading - wish I'd opened it on this page when I did the survey earlier...

...as Kinnison shot into the air he swallowed several times in a vain attempt to dispose of an amazing lump which had somehow appeared in his throat.

Why yes, I am easily amused... how did you guess?  :)