Free and Clear!

 Woody is free of his splint and the place on his leg that

had the infection looks clear.  He is to finish taking the antibiotic and hopefully the infection will stay away.

Dr. Holt will see him in a month and then will discuss what needs to be done about the plate that has a fracture in it.  She said that she thought about him when she was doing surgery this morning (took longer than planned and we sat for a loooooong time waiting for her to come see Woody).  The reason that she thought about Woody was that the lady that she was operating on had a lot of damage to her bone and in the end Dr. Holt had to make her a new bone.  Not sure if she is thinking that she may have to do this for Woody or not!  She wants him completely free of the infection before she will even consider what to do next for his leg!  She was very pleased when she took off the wrapping and the hard part of the splint to see that the infected area looked soooo very much better.  The only thing that looked bad was all the sharpie marks on his leg.  The nurse/tech who wiped off his leg wanted to know what all the blue on his leg was...the last mark that the doctor made just prior to us leaving Vanderbilt last Thursday to mark where the infection
still remained..

We left the house at 8am...Nathan driving and pulled back into our driveway a little after 3pm...another long Vanderbilt day!

Tonight's photos show a few scenes along the street that leads us to Vanderbilt.  Last week was the peak for leaf color, but they were still quite pretty today.  This is the first time that I had noticed the motorized scooters that now are seen along city streets...somehow the person who needs to use them pays (Nathan figures with a credit card) and they ride so far before they have to pay some more.  We saw a lot of them along the way.  On the way home we saw quite a few people riding them along the sidewalks.  The company that owns this one is "Bird."  We also saw one from another company, too.  There was a new bike path along this road too that we hadn't seen before...and we were just here last week.  Always something new or some changes.  I had read a while back about these scooters...for a time downtown Nashville banned them, but have since lifter the ban...I guess!

I don't know about Woody but today tired me out.  I am ready to sit in my chair and rest for the rest of the evening.  He is able to put weight back on his leg, but he is going about it cautiously.  He is still using his walker, but now putting both feet on the ground.  They told him that just a week of not using it that the muscle would not be as strong as last week.  He says that what he notices mostly is that it is a bit stiff.  We had pasta for supper.  I made two different sauces: a red clam sauce for me and a white sauce for Woody.  The kitchen is cleaned up.  The dishwasher has run.  The kitten is in "her room" for the night.  Woody is reading and watching TV.  I'm going to go read.  So it looks like we are settled in for another quiet Friday evening!