Progress Report
As nothing major has happened regarding the main thread, this is pretty much a non-report really.
My last check up visit was a very quick affair with everything still going as planned, and a statement that the aid unit will definitely be fitted during my next visit. That is still a couple of weeks off yet. The only change in the routine is that I have been told to stop twice daily use of the general purpose ointment, and in future to only apply it “every so often”. I failed to get any really objective scientific definition of this frequency, so I am applying it when it comes to mind but only if I can’t really remember the last time I used it. It seems a suitably lackadaisical, non compulsive sort of regime.
Life has continued very much as normal, including gardening in some fairly fierce cold winds, and another hair cut. Hardly the stuff of prizewinning blogs.
Posted below is a recent photograph of the abutment, which unsurprisingly doesn’t look much different to the first one. The graft still looks fairly pink in this photo but not perhaps as ‘angry’ as the previous one. I think that is due basically to bad timing on my part. In general I’m told that the graft site is now much paler than it used to be. If you look at my ear and neck you will see that these are also quite a bit pinker than the last photo. This was taken quite soon after a heavier than usual gym session then a shower. I hadn’t realised that the effects remained visible for quite so long.
