Christine Has Her Stitches Removed

This morning the surgeon assessed the wound and declared that the nurses could remove the stitches. However, we have photos of Chris's progress to this great day.

On Monday the nurses thought it was time the stitches should come out but the surgeon was not available so Wednesday was to be the day of removal as he would be available. The wound sites need dressing every few days in any case.

Hence on Monday Chris's right arm looked like above and below. The stitches were declared to be 'beautiful' and the open wounds on the back of the forearm above,  healing nicely  - no infection. The colour of Chris's right hand is also looking more normal by the day.

Below we come to today and the removal of stitches with thorough cleansing.

When Chris first saw the stitches she thought they looked like 'string'. Today all 19 of them looked tiny.

Each day Chris has been doing more and more. However today the surgeon reminded her that she is not to flex her wrist for six weeks, of which there are still more than four left. Hence she is easing up on what she does and tries to do. The brace will no longer be worn after 6 weeks as well.

Just for for the moment, until we return to the NHS, the forearm and wrist need re-dressing every three days or so, we have been told.

We are now making our way north and west towards the Channel Tunnel. It was rather sad to leave our lovely well-equiped and virtually empty campsite at Romorantin for this place we are at with a 1930s sanitaire and almost warm water. Without thinking I pitched up near the sanitaire for convenience sake, until I realised it was also alongside the poubell enclosure, where the French static owners turned up in their cars to dump their French rubbish, very noisily.  I moved pitch.

This is an enormous rambling old site, with one sanitaire block totally demolished and the rubble just left in a long pile. There appear to be kilometres of campsite lanes meandering over the hillside with pitches for statics, mobiles, old caravans, new caravans, enormous sheds, diggers and campervans.

And it's expensive! But the hostess at reception was very welcoming and the wifi actually works properly for 2 euros a day. However Chris cannot get a 3G signal for her iPad, so no FaceBooking. Our new pitch is in fact surrounded by rather lovely flowering trees - spacious and pretty.