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"Running around is the mission of the day!" - Explorer the Cat.

Keep us posted on progress.

More or less. I'm not 100% back to normal yet. I still get dizzy if I stand up too long. My weight is still fluctuating, albeit on the downward side (a nice surprise, but slightly troubling - it's kind of sudden). My legs are weak, especially my left knee. I wonder if the edema was holding it up or something. And I've been having PVC heart flutters all damned day long - very annoying. Still, it is better than what I had, I must admit. When a doctor looks at you and his first thoughts are to stick your ass in the hospital, you know you're in a bad way.

"I'm getting off the desk. Just wait a few!" - Explorer the Cat.

The 11th armored cavalry division of Poland uses the wings as part of their unit patch.

Pray that there's intellegent life some where up in space, 'cause there's buggerall down here on Earth.

I'm home from the hospital. The schedule is a bit delayed - I won't be going to wound care until next Friday. I'm going to have home health come in, potentially 3x a week, potentially as soon as tomorrow. In the meantime, I get to settle back in, preferably with some different lifestyle patterns, and become a functional human once again. Thanks for all of your messages of support during my hospitalization. I do appreciate them.

Temperatures hovering around 0 F today and tomorrow during the daytime (much colder at night), with high winds. Apparently the wind chill is something like -30, with the wind chill potentially getting down to -50 overnight. The weather report said that at these conditions, frostbite can set in on exposed skin in 5-10 minutes. Needless to say, my plans involve spending a little time as possible outside, staying out for no more than a few minutes at at time, and bundling up as much as possible when I do. (Incidentally, while we usually get subzero temperatures for a few days or even a week or so during January and/or February, I can't ever remember a time when the windchill was this bad. It's also a very strange flip from the rest of the winter thus far, which was far warmer than usual.)