Welp, trimming the evergreen tree i my backyard I felt a sharp pain in the front of my calf and looked down to see that a branch stob had evulsed a half-inch strip of skin, six inches long from the front of my leg. Having peripheral vascular disease and neuropathy in my lwer legs I don’t notice injuries as well as I used to. These conditions make the skin very thin and fragile and ANY nd ALL wounds take months or YEARS to heal. So I am now on TWO antibiotics and NO pain medicine even though it hurts viciously. Hospital ER’s in my area have greatly tightened their policies about giving out pain medicine so I guess we have to suffer. I stay off my feet and keep my leg elevated for a few months and it might heal someday.
AM finding quite a few bird nests in and around my yard and am submitting them to Nest Watch, a relatively new online birding site run by the Cornell Laboratory of Ornithology in Ithaca, NY. I have submitted Three active nests so far although two of those have since been abandoned. I still have an active American Robin nest at the end of our driveway. I suspect the location of two or three more active nests but haven’t pinpointed them yet. My daughter returns from Scotland next week and should come here the week after that. Then a couple of weeks later her friend from Scotland will be coming here for a visit.
Tags: Tree trimming, evulsions, peripheral vascular disease, neuropathy, bird nests, Nest Watch
