The icky medical side of DT & my hand op

  
Hello subscribers!
  
To make up for the lack of a new post the previous week, this week, on Wednesday, I uploaded an elaborate, long post with plenty of photos depicting the medical side of dark tourism. It included abandoned hospitals, medical history museums with grisly exhibits and even a photo of a giant specimen at the world’s only parasitological museum.

As the lead photo for that post as well as for this Newsletter, I picked a photo I took at an abandoned hospital in Pripyat, in the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone. It shows an old X-ray of a hand I found lying around in the dust.

This image now came in handy (excuse the pun) to stand for the operation I had on my own left hand's ring finger on Thursday, as I had already announced in the previous newsletter.

Now that’s done. It wasn’t too traumatic. But it is still too early to tell whether the op was successful. The hand is still bandaged and the finger is still somewhat stiff and painful to straighten, but the surgeon who performed the op said he was confident it will have done the trick, and when I went back on Friday to have the post-op dressing changed, the nurse said that the wound “looked good”. So I probably just have to be patient and hope it will get back to normal before too long. The stitches will be removed a week tomorrow.

But since I shouldn’t overdo it with typing right now, I’ll keep this newsletter short and leave it at this. Let’s see how it goes by next week …

Have a good, medical-proceedings-free week and continue to stay safe!

Best wishes,

Peter