Anyway, I'm hurting on my left side from the operation site around the shoulder and under the arms and especially from the donor site on the outtside of my left leg where the leg meets the rest of the body. I have a visiting nurse change my wound dressings 2 or 3 times a week and I have to improvise bathing, because I can't get the two sites wet. I take short walks around the townhouse area and get chauffeured to the odd doc appointment or food/medicine run.

I'm lonely, stir crazy, and I hurt, but this one was voluntary and a step forward as operating as a whole human being in the future. It won't be easy. I still haven't gotten to the PT yet, but I have good support through friends and family and I'll make it through alright.