Surgery!

I have made it out of my Percocet haze and back to the blog. I was thinking of ending this thing, being that I am not longer adventurous and touring the world, but maybe I will keep you all up to speed on the recovery. It seems that some of you are still reading.

Last Thursday the 24th I had an outpatient surgery to repair my right biceps tendon. It had torn at the musculotendinous junction and best guess I have is that the rope actually cut it when I fell. Yeah, sorry, a little too graphic for some maybe. Up until a few years ago this injury would not have even been repaired (so my research and my doc tell me) because the did not have the technology to do it. Tomorrow I will see the pictures of what he actually did last week. He described it as making a sushi roll with my muscle as the rice and this synthetic sport mesh as the seaweed paper. It's not hurting nearly as bad as it did 5 days after the initial injury, so I'm happy. I'm hoping that I'm in good enough shape to heal up fast and be back to my chin up pyramids by Christmas.

We've been staying at my friend Dave's place in Denver and can walk to the river and downtown pretty easily. I was offered my job again in Three Rivers and Jay has had some promising interviews in the area, so we are looking forward to settling down with a little stability soon.

Game Over.

Well, for anyone out there who is still reading this, it looks as though the climbing trip is over. We are being tourists in Denver now and attended a Rockies game last night and Water World the day before that. Tuesday we go the news that I tore my biceps tendon in the fall and I need to have surgery to repair it. I have a follow up appointment with my MD today to see when that will be scheduled and get an idea of how far in debt it will be taking us. I do have INS but it's a $5000 deductible with no follow up coverage. What are we doing about this health care system? Maybe I should have just gone to the hospital in Canada.

Anyway, we have had the opportunity to spend some quality time with friends and family and have both enjoyed that. Brutus is hanging out with his cousins Abby and Norman and is currently sleeping on their beds. We checked out Grand Junction and the western slope and we liked it, but are more drawn back to California than we thought. Jay is in the process of job hunting in California and I am eagerly awaiting a decision of where we will be living and working.

Luckily I really need to spend hours studying for the PA recert exam, so I can occupy myself with that while I recover from the surgery. I might continue to post on here until we get back to work, but if not, thanks for listening. It's been an incredible year and I highly recommend it.