It's Even Larger Now

I'm slowly doing better. I can breathe without oxygen, and climb a flight of stairs without gasping for air. My voice sounds normal.  I'm still gaining weight, and am now either a size 0 or 2, not a 0 petite--being a size less than zero always made me feel uncomfortably like a character in a Brett Easton Ellis novel.

The wound on my foot is still in the process of closing, 14 months after the botched surgery: the wound is about two inches long and is closing at a rate of about a millimeter every two weeks.  The doctors had originally thought I would lose about a third of my foot, so I'll take what I can get. (Note to Dr. Karwowski: not only did I not lose "a chunk" of my little toe, the nail is even growing back!)

We even went on vacation last week. It was a little too cold to read Harry Potter on the beach, the way I'd planned, so I spent a lot of time just watching Kylie building sand castles and jumping in the waves. It doesn't get much better than that, bad foot and oxygen machine or not.

Of course, I could have done without her asking whether we could go to the pool instead of the beach 87 times every day (before breakfast), but you can't have everything.

Comments

[Naomi]

Didn't that foot thing start out as a bunionectomy? If I lived near you I'd want to know the name of your podiatrist so that I could be absolutely 100% sure to never, ever go to him. Egads.

It's good to hear you're gaining weight and breathing better. :-)

[Jen]

The beach is a toss up with kids. They like sand castles still gone on about the swimming pool.

Glad you're breathing better and eating better. I find both to be helpful. I'm still doing my shots. I figure if you can suck it up, I certainly can too.

This weekend we're going to Holiday World and Splashing Safari - I feel like National Lampoon's vacation already. You had the better vacation!

[Zuzu's petals]

It was such a nice surprise to see you at SMs. Good to hear about the weight gain and the breathing. :o) And about the lovely vacation.

[Aleks]

I'm so happy you're doing better! I posted to you at SM's as well.

[primey]

Just wanted to let you know that I'm glad to hear the update! Your daughter is my kinda gal ... I'm all about pools and don't like non-chlorinated water.