Unstapled

The staples are no more!
When I got to therapy, I did the stepper for 10 minutes, then he took out the staples (which was really pretty painless).  He just kept exclaiming about how good it looks.  I can't say that myself because, before I saw it, he had covered the whole incision with steri-strips.  They will work themselves gradually in a week or so.  He said there are no open areas or seeping, even from the little staple holes.  He said there are usually a lot more staples (I had 28), and sometimes they take some of them out before you leave the hospital.  That's what mine look like, he says, but these are all the staples I had.

After the steri-strips were on, he stretched me (ow!!) then I got my heavenly ice blanket. There was a woman there who is four weeks out (I'm just at two tomorrow), and her measurement was only 115.  And she was depending heavily on a cane.  That made me feel a lot better, because 92 and 115 don't seem that far apart, and I'm two weeks behind her.