Dan's first day back to work was yesterday. He did pretty good but his dog bite leg swelled up to twice it's size. He came home limping and sore. He is pretty gimped up with the left leg as well. Today he worked a little over 4 hours and his leg swelled again. He has quite a bit of pain with both legs. I feel bad for him.

The good news for today is that when I changed his dressing I didn't need to pack it. It is almost completely filled in, so we will just let it close. We have been monkeying around with dressing tapes he is getting his hide ripped off by some kinds of tape. I switched to another way and whenever he gets hot the tape melts into his skin and rips his hide off too. So, we tried a big over size bandaid, the plastic kind and after two days he has blisters along the edges (you can see it in the above picture.) So, tonight I switched him out to a fabric bandaid and so far it is staying in place and hopefully can manage whatever drainage he might still have.

We had a nice anniversary today (Can you believe 14 years!) One of my students had given me a gift certificate to a spa in town as an end of the skating season gift. So, I schedule my spa day today and had a wonderful facial. It includes not only the face, but an arm and neck massage. It was wonderful and I think I will do it again!

Then, we have aquired quite a few restraunt gift cards. I had received 1 for Old Chicago Pizza and 1 for Applebee's from skating students. For Christmas Dan had received one also for Old Chicago Pizza. So, we went to Old Chicago for our anniversary and it didn't cost us a dime! It was wonderful. We took Ozzie with us, but of course he had to wait in the truck...

Two days in a row I have not even thought about napping. That's the good news, the bad news is the swelling in my legs is getting worse even though I have totally stopped taking the florinef. I hope it's not my new drug. I couldn't bear if I had to stop it. The good news is my blood pressures are outstanding since I stopped the atenolol and substituted the propranolol every morning. I sure wish I would have tried that earlier. Now, I just need to get around to telling Dr. Li what's going on, but I don't want him to stop my aldomet. Dan says I'm laughing more and acting more like my old self.

I will just have to wait and see and trust the Lord with the "big" picture :)