My therapist took the bandage off today – 7 days after my surgery.  She said it looks good.  Sandy took a picture, and you can find it on this site if you look a little.  Don’t look for it if you’re easily grossed-out.  That’s why I didn’t add it directly to this post.  Not everyone is comfortable looking at that kind of horror show up-close and personal.

I guess it’s ok.  A friend send me a photo of his knee at the same point of healing, and it looks fairly similar, except he had zip ties on his wound.  I have nothing – no stitches, no zip ties.  From what I understand, they used some sort of surgical glue.

Anyway, if feels much better, and much less itchy this way.  There’s still a clear somewhat invisible bandage over it.  If you look closely in the photo you can see it.  This will eventually starts to peel off.  When it does, I’m supposed to trim the edges.  I shouldn’t try to peel it off, just work with it naturally as it works its way off itself.  My entire knee area still seems oddly “tight”, almost like it’s still wrapped in a huge thick bandage, but with some effort I can stretch it to walk and exercise.  It’s slowly coming back.

Well, it’s 9/11.  I usually re-post my original 9/11 posting from, 9/11/10, 9 years after, asking for stories, so I’ll add that as a link in case anyone missed it over the past 17 years.  Damn, this site is old:  So… where were you??

This morning I watched Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close, which is about a kid who lost his father on 9/11.  If you hadn’t seen it, it’s worth watching.  I watched it several years ago, but didn’t remember much of it, so it was pretty interesting all over again.  I also watched the “9/11 Inside The Pentagon” special that PBS aired yesterday.  I think that one was actually new, I hadn’t heard of it before.  It was interesting as well.  That’s about it, I’m all 9/11’ed out for this year, except for our flag.  Kevin and I raised our 9/11 flag on 8/31 this year.  I figured we’d fly it for the full month of September, so I’ll take it down and put the regular American flag up again at the end of the month.