Single Handed Progress

Yep, that's my actual nerve there, all sutured up

It is now 5 weeks since I had surgery to mend my severed digital nerve and flexor tendons.  Whilst it was the obvious injury to the nerve in my finger that prompted my medivac, my prolonged UK stay is due to the tendon damage found in theatre.  As I approach the halfway point of my stay in the UK I thought I'd explain in more detail what I have injured, and the hows/whys of my long recovery.

Off to a good start

Photo Credit: Matthew Phillips

Right, time for some retrospective catch-up on the blog.  Prior to my premature departure from KEP late January, when I last wrote from the South in November, I was on the RRS JCR heading northwards from Signy.

I finally made it to KEP on 25^th November, and absolutely love it.  The above photo is our official Christmas card to other Antarctic bases.  We’d had a festive dump of snow (not uncommon, even in summer) and had just finished decorating the church.  Merry with mulled wine we were coaxed outside for the shot, but a snowball fight was inevitable.  Unfortunately the first throw hit the camera lens dead on!

Before I get onto more about life at KEP, a catch up on the last part of my journey: