monday

today kara goes back to work. it's been 2 weeks since the incident, 2 weeks ago this evening. mostly at this point i'm worried about max. since the incident his separation anxiety (from kara; not from me) seems to have intensified. on friday evening kara went out with some folks from work and i stayed home with max and the cats. max was pacing and moaning and barking almost the whole time kara was gone, a bit more than 4 hours. i hope he doesn't do the same today while she's gone because, frankly, i have to work. and i worry about his discomfort, of course. i wish we could give him more pain meds, but he's already at the limit. he just has to cope. i think he slept all right last night, or at least i slept all right. a couple of nights ago, though, i think maybe friday night, he was up and moaning for hours and kara kept having to go into his closet and calm him down.

anyway. today kara goes back to work. yesterday she changed her bandage and i got to see her finger for the first time since her surgery. sorry the picture isn't so great, but the act of taking the dressing off, the tugging of the tape, etc, gave kara plenty of pain and she wanted to get the whole thing over with. you can see the pin sticking out, though, right? (she can feel the pin inside her finger.) and there's no nail there. a surprise was that her finger started bleeding again when she took the dressing off, bleeding from the nailbed, where there's a bit of a trough. she had planned to leave the finger unbandaged for a while, out in the air, for a few hours, but the blood and discomfort changed her mind, and she bandaged it up again.

it didn't look quite as gross and horrible as i had imagined. it's not pretty; i'm not saying that. i got a little queasy, but not so bad. i still ate dinner afterwards. kara recovered after a while too. we don't know if her nail will grow back. again, the pin is supposed to come out next week.