We went to the hospital in Canela a few days ago to get the stitches taken out, and the doc said it’s healing very well. After the stitches were removed he gave me a piece metal with foam on one side which is used to stop the finger from bending so the bone can start to heal.
The bright side of being out of commission is that I’ve had lots of time to make a good start on my book and I’m really getting in to the flow now. Also it’s led to our neighbour Vladimir having to take over the fence repair and he’s completely remade it instead of just fixing what was there, so we have a really nice solid fence all the way along that side now!
Beth’s had to take over a lot of my jobs now, but there’s a bright side to that as well which is that she’s learning to use a lot of tools that she was a bit timid of before even though she wanted to be more independent. She’s been using the post-hole borer in the field and chopping up fire wood with the chainsaw and axe 🙂
