First Social Outing: One Week After Surgery
[Again, pardon my lack of chronological order. I've dispensed with the "Recovery Day #" system, which seemed perfectly logical when I started it -- less than a week after surgery -- because I realized that every time I use it, I have to use math to figure out the day and then explain that it starts from the first full day out of the hospital. So after this post, time will be marked from my surgery date, November 1st.] This photo is from Recovery Day 4, not 5, but I include it here to illustrate two points: 1. Look carefully at the top half of my face. It’s not very lively, is it? No, no it’s not. 2. Voting is a both a right and a privilege! If I can get my butt down to the polling station less than a week after brain surgery to vote for St. Paul mayor and school board, you can damn well try to get yourself to the polls for the midterm elections in 2018 or do early voting. The next evening was my first social outing. By “social outi...