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Tuesday, August 29, 2006
 
Graphic Video

You probably won't want to watch this video right before or right after eating. Some of it is pretty gross.

I took video this yesterday morning at the doctor's office. My leg is in an ace wrap, but they were changing the dressings, so I got my first look at the leg since my last surgery.

The stitches on the inside of my leg came out yesterday. The other, newer incision is held closed by twenty-eight staples that will be removed next week. You should still be able to make out the four holes, two each above and below the knee, where the external fixator was previously attached. The top most pin hole looks rather like a gunshot wound. I seem to have lost a good deal of muscle mass in my thighs. Part of that is that my leg has been in the ace wrap for so long and the whole leg is just a bit compressed. This also explains why the skin is somewhat mottled