{"id":4922,"date":"2012-08-01T22:49:48","date_gmt":"2012-08-02T05:49:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nettiesworld.com\/?p=4922"},"modified":"2017-06-28T22:52:37","modified_gmt":"2017-06-29T05:52:37","slug":"wednesday-wanderings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/old.adoptedjoy.com\/?p=4922","title":{"rendered":"Wednesday Wanderings"},"content":{"rendered":"

Let us begin at the beginning.\u00a0 Which is to say, this morning, Wednesday morning, seven days after my dear mother’s surgery<\/a><\/strong>.\u00a0 We were blessed with significantly more sleep this week than last, and on our sojourn to the wound care center, were able to glide the I-10 all the way downtown, unimpeded by the tedium of rush hour traffic.<\/p>\n

Dr. Brink’s demeanor was calm, cautious, and neither alarming nor optimistic as he assessed mother’s foot.\u00a0 He explained that his hope is still to be able to perform the skin graft, however, the reality is that 50% of his patients in this situation do ultimately require an amputation.\u00a0 However, he was quite reassuring about the after-amputation outcome, and the blessing that today’s new and improved prosthetics<\/a> can be to increasing mobility<\/a>.\u00a0 So we came away with a sense of hopefulness in spite of a still uncertain future.<\/p>\n

When we arrived home again, Megan and Laurent decided to tackle the little interior design project they had planned.\u00a0 Well actually, Megan worked on the interior design project, while Laurent worked on a fashion design project.\u00a0 (And in case you are wondering why those colors look so familiar, yes.\u00a0 They used the cans of leftover house paint from last year.)<\/p>\n