Nine Days Post-Op and Hopeful

Linda's left arm
Dr. Yuen changed my bandage yesterday. We are happy the elbow is a pretty color of pink and seems to be holding the grafted skin and showing no infection. I pray it will start growing new skin from here. We all know the floppy-flabby skin on our elbows. But my left elbow doesn't have any skin except the new grafts. Also Dr Y. had to cut off some elbow bone to remove the infected parts.
Please pray for this restoration so we can move forward to the orthopaedic surgery to fix my lower left arm.
John still giving me 2 blood thinner shots per day and he or Dean give my iv antibiotic every 18 hours. Dean comes to relieve John almost every day. Ha! I have 2 first class male nurses!

Friends Mean So Much
Sunday John had a great much-needed day off hiking with John Gill. They went to one of the beautiful falls in Tim Ernst's waterfall book. It was in western Arkansas. My "sitter" was my lifetime friend, Anne Corson Hagen, from Hot Springs Village. We talked all day until she noticed me looking tired, so we were silent about 15 minutes then happily started up the chatter again. Lifetime is true. Our mothers strolled us together in our baby carriages! I can't remember a time when I didn't love her and consider her a dear friend.
Thanks to the friends who have sat and visited with me.
Your visits brighten my day.

Friends Who Brought Food
Kaye and Bill Burton corn bread fruit cobbler potato soup
Wilsie Tiner chili cole slaw coconut ice box pie
Pat Lile banana nut bread
Alter Guild Members flowers from Sunday services
Diane Holt mixed salad casserole
Anne Hagen cinnamon roles
Kay Luplow chicken salad mini cinnamon roles
Bob Ritchie his homemade spiced peaches....yummmmmm
Jean Wallace pimento cheese