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Continuing Healthy Monday at Fenton's/Nut Tree.

Here: celebrating lieless George and honest Abe with hot tubing, Fleetwood Mac and a traditional breakfast.

Yep. Got the brace on the right leg unlocked after 4 weeks to 30 degrees flexing, then a little more each week until I got it to 90 degrees. Was using a walker until last week, and then the PT worked with me to use crutches, including getting up from a chair with my one weak leg. I've been discharged from home PT after that. So, I can now get to my car, get in, pull in my crutches, and use my right leg to drive. I drove the whole 400 mile round trip with my wife as passenger. But man did it kick my ass using crutches for anything more than a short trip from the car to the SmashBurger ordering counter and back out to the car. And I still can't bear weight on my left ankle until 3/20, according to my surgeon. But I'm in a much better position than my daughter who also can't bear weight on her right leg until 3/20, because she had a "bleed" in her ankle when she put weight on it last week as ordered by the doc. So, the right ankle is back in a cast after draining the hematoma, and she is only just now ready to start to try standing on her left leg with a fracture walking "boot". Her last surgery was Wednesday to remove her external rods and fixators. Today the wife and I went to dinner and a movie (American Sniper). The kids stayed home and had takeout sushi...

Lollers. I think if you turn on your porch light, you can clean up the rest.

I approve of breakfast wine, needless to say ...

Thanks guys, We eally appreciate all of your support! It's definitely been a tough road and hard work, but it's paying off. I just feel bad that I'm a bit farther ahead than my daughter, who not only sustained multiple open fractures in both legs but ripped all the ligaments in both of her ankles. Once it was clear that the pickup truck was going to slide right into our path, and there was nothing that we could do about it, my daughter had put both feet on the brakes right up until impact. Cutting our speed in half, while the other driver was sliding towards us at 60-70mph and couldn't slow his speed, probably saved our lives. But in return she ended up in worse shape than me, with much more severe acute pain and more protracted lingering pain. Which is a crazy thing to say since I snapped my left femur in half, shattered the fibula, broke the end off my tibia, and broke my right kneecap into pieces, along with five broken ribs and a pulmonary contusion. This has caused a ton of pain and suffering, but she's been more miserable every step of the way. PS: My other big problem is that I am having trouble weaning off the long acting pain med (Oxycontin), as my body has become used to it and I suffer withdrawal symptoms. The meds don't make me high or anything, I just get sick if I stop them or go more than 24 hours without a dose. I've gone down from 60mg a day to 10mg a day but can't get off completely. I'm seeing the doctor today and will double check if I can use some short acting Roxy to wean off the long acting Oxycontin, because those I can cut up into smaller pieces as I go down. My Kaiser health insurance is a pain in the ass because they paid for 20mg 2x/day for 30 days, but after 15 days when we wanted to change to 20mg in PM and 10mg in AM (a 25% drop), they refused to pay for the 10mg until I'd used up all the 20mg after 30 days. It wasn't about preventing abuse, it was about their money. So, at the 30 day mark I was forced to cut my dose in half from 40mg a day to 20mg a day and I suffered the side effects. They didn't care, and I'd like to see them get punished for setting policy that hurts the patients.

You and I share shockingly similar taste in TV based on this paragraph.

Thanks for the concern. Fortunately, my blizzard seems to be cleaning up after itself.

I hear you. My deck was clean before our big storm blew through last night.

Mutant KitKats thanks to our Japanese distributors (Strawberry and Green Tea)