Hand Update

Well its been a long 6 months since the accident. There has been; A splint for 6 weeks, Occupational Therapy twice a week for 5 months, Dr. appointments every 3 weeks, a bone scan, x-rays, a mri, a ct, a circulation test, a (my very very very least favorite!!) a nerve conduction study, and a trip to Eugene to the hand/wrist specialist (with another scheduled). Not to mention the things that are either difficult or not able to be done. The result? Well there isn't any nerve damage, my grip is still very weak (10 at last measurement, functional is 30), and I am most likely going to have to have arthroscopic surgery (to look inside and see whats going on). Thats where things get interesting. With luck whatever is going will be fixable. At this point we just don't know and that is the most frustrating thing of all of this. Will let you know how that goes.

Garden Delight!

We enjoyed a romaine, spicy mesculan, easter egg radish, green onion salad. Why am I excited about a relatively mundane salad? All of the ingredients came from our garden!!! They wer the first harvest from our little plots of garden space. I am ridiculously excited as it is the FIRST time we have actually gotten a decent harvest from anything we have planted! In addition the potatoes that I planted are starting to pop up as are the spinache, chard, and corn. The sunflowers, chamomiel, dill, cilantro, are all doing great. They seem to like the weird weather. We now have space to plant more veggies and plan on planting more of the mesculan (its really good having a slightly nutty flavor to it), more radish, a different kind of lettuce and the herbs we haven't planted yet. It should be a great summer of harvesting veggies! Pictures to come.