I got back from Hopkins Baltimore Bayview late Monday. I had hoped to go home last Saturday, but they couldn't set up home nursing to come by and change dressings on my left side. The operation site itself at the shoulder area and the donor site from where I had the skin graft taken both give me considerable pain.

I have to keep my arm stationary as much as possible in a cumbersome device called an "abduction pillow", which doesn't, alas, mean that I got to abduct a nurse who would be lying next to me. It's a foam harness-type gadjet that I will have to wear as long as possibly 6-8 weeks. My next follow-up is on the 25th of May and I will find out more then, as well as when I can resume driving. I can not resume PT until I'm done with the 'pillow". I believe Vince (wincingdevil) posted a picture from Wednesday's shanty sing at The Wharf Rat, which I'd gotten a ride to.

I'll post more in a little while......