Take Two

Pendle Hill, Lancs - jacket says it all: want to be back South!

I've been allowed to use my left hand for two weeks now and things are coming on in leaps and bounds.  After a few months of no use at all it will take a while to build the strength back up, but I'm already seeing steady and positive progress.  Some milestones crossed have been important functional ones such as holding a fork without dropping it (still working on the actual using it bit), but sometimes it is the seemingly trivial that is most rewarding.  This week I've been able to tie my hair back for the first time since January, and by the time I am reunited with my hairdryer and straighteners I should have sufficient hand strength to be able to style it too!  

80 days doesn't sound too bad when written down, but these past few months back in the UK has felt like an eternity to me.  I've said it before, but I remain absolutely devastated to have missed my one opportunity to have experienced a South Georgian summer, and all because of a finger injury.  Whilst seemingly quite trivial and the involvement of an avocado in the mechanism to some comical, the injury has been disabling for me and the recovery and rehab process long and difficult.  There has been near constant anxiety about rupturing the repair, frequent frustration, periodic pain, and one or two tears shed along the way.

BUT...5 months after I originally jetted off for my Southern adventure, I'm FINALLY setting off again for South Georgia.  My re-insertion will take a little longer than my record breaking extraction but I am relieved that finally I can get back and get on.  Can't wait :)