We have a good family friend who is a renowned reconstructive surgeon and wound specialist. Let's call him Doctor D. On Sunday night I ran into Dr. D's wife and daughter at church. They both took one look at my leg and said, "That looks infected. You should come over to the house and let Dr. D clean that."
This sounded like an extremely painful idea, so I hemmed and hawed for a little while, but in the end when the wife and daughter of a renowned reconstructive surgeon and wound specialist tell you your leg looks infected it's best to listen.
So at 9pm on Sunday night in the middle of Dr. D's kitchen, while his kids cleaned the dishes and entertained me with bubbles, I had my wound cleaned and disinfected. I should probably mention that all of Dr. D's kids are over the age of 22.
This probably sounds a lot worse than it was. Dr. D put some numbing cream on my leg which kept the pain to a minimum and he was remarkably gentle, considering he was using a scalpel and a tongue depressor to scrap away all the scabbing, dead skin and dirt.
He put me on antibiotics and some heavy pain killers and sent me home. Don't worry I didn't take the pain killers until I got home.
Yesterday my leg was doing much better. Unfortunately my tummy was not so happy. I had a bad reaction to the pain killers and was stuck on the couch for most of the day. Luckily I had 12 hours of X-Games coverage on Tivo to keep me company. and a wonderful wife to make me breakfast in bed.
My mother was kind enough to play chauffeur for my follow up trip to Dr. D yesterday afternoon. This time we went to his office.
So the good news is I will be just fine. I have a follow up with Dr. D on Friday, but the healing from Sunday night to Monday afternoon was already starting to look good. I am not to worried about my leg taking a turn for the worse as long as I take care of it.
The bad news is, no strenuous exercise for the rest of this week. Which means no running, no power walking and no strength training of the lower body.
This is going to be a big test for me. In the past this is the kind of thing that would derail me for good. I am determined to not let that happen. I will continue to eat well this week. I will do my crunches and I will try to add some low stress upper body work out to at least keep a minimum of exercise going.
I'll be bummed if I don't get down under 250 this week but like we've been saying all along, it's a marathon, not a sprint... this week may just be a bump in the trail.
Thank you very much to Dr. D and the whole D family for taking such great care of me and keeping my leg from falling off.
Tony
8/7: 250.2 lbs.
Goal: 220 lbs.
30.2 lbs. to go
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I am loving this feedburner thing!
I hope you feel better soon. I know you can stay on plan. I didn't exercise once all last week and I managed to eat a little under my calorie/points target and still had a loss. You have that lovely wife to keep you in check, too :o)
Oh and about the X-games...just be very happy that you aren't kid-who-flys-through-air-and-looks -dead-but-only-broke-his-wrist. That sucked way more....I am pretty sure of it. (and did you rewind and watch it like 10 x like my husband did? He couldn't get enough of 'falling crazy dude' I wince whenever I see it!)
I didn't need to rewind it. They showed it about 300 times over the 4 days of coverage.
I have to admit I did make Laura come watch it. That was about the scariest thing I have ever seen on TV.
It may turn out to be good for Jake Brown though. He has gone from a relativly unkown skater to an international sensation in one weekend...and hes alive that's a good thing too.
Watching that fall over and over all day yesterday made my leg trauma feel like a wimppy little scrape.
Tony
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