Time for another up date:
I have competed my three-month run of 5x / week hyperbaric treatment. Now I am down to one wound care doctor visit a week. Huge amounts of progress. At this point I expect a complete recovery.
My eye sight was distorted due to the pressures of hyperbaric treatment. This was anticipated to be transitory, but you never know. Things are almost back to normal - I again need "cheaters" to read fine print and can see at a distance normally. should be fine for driving. Should . . .
Mrs. Strange has her fears about me getting behind the wheels. Not so much rational, but not so easy to negotiate. We lent my car to my learning to drive niece, which she has come to depend upon. < like what 16 year old learning to drive doesn't come to love the independence of having a car? > This could be a complicated issue. We'll see.
My wound care diet is basically way more protean than I normally eat and way fewer carbs. You might think steak / seafood / meat / bacon & eggs every day - more than you want would be easy to do. Not so much. I am down to my lowest weight since my college years. My cloths don't come close to fitting. Oh, and ice cream somehow got left off the list of things I should eat every day. Sad really.
My stamina is almost back. Not quite meat-up levels of 24-hour a day poker but getting close.
Physical therapy has me up and walking. I carry a cane, just in case, but not really needed under flat conditions. Stairs and curbs require more caution. Wound care doesn't want me on my feet so much. The physical therapy team wants me up and active as much as possible. Somewhere we found an almost happy medium.
Basically the out come is as good as my have been hoped for. < knocking on wood, just to be safe > I have a January 2022 meat-up on my schedule. Maybe back to regular cards in a few weeks.
Woo hoo! V I C T O R Y -=- DrStrange
