Clear skies and a happy Kate

For all those who have been sitting on the edge of your seats wondering how my recovery has been going, this post is for you. :) It's been two weeks now since my daily wound-dressings started up, and hopefully we've made it over the hard part. For the first week, it was just once a day. But then last weekend, we started with the required twice a day, and it was not pretty at first. But thank the Lord, Mike and I figured out a good system and now the pain is down to almost zero! I'm still taking percoset every time, which leads to groggy days sometimes (but a happy Kate!), but I honestly feel so blessed that these twice daily dressings aren't as traumatic as they once were.

I went in for a checkup with the surgeon yesterday, and she said the wound is healing extremely well, and from here the healing should speed up exponentially. Whether or not that means we'll be done with the dressings in another two weeks, I'm not exactly sure. But that's my goal!

On a different note, I don't know about the rest of you, but down here in Vancouver the weather has just been gorgeous for the past 4 or 5 days. I can definitely handle the freezing cold temperatures when we've got clear blue skies the whole day. It's been such a treat! I've been letting the dogs run around in the backyard (unsupervised!) in light of the dry conditions we've had, and it's so fun to check up on them to see what sort of trouble they've been getting into. Nothing too terrible, thankfully. :) But they sure love all the sticks they find!