With about 8 weeks until departure, how am I doing on
preparation?
Physically for me has been a challenge. End of July I tore my bicep tendon off the bone
at the elbow and did other shoulder damage.
Rehab has been a long road post-surgery, but I’m optimistic I’ll be at
least 90% by departure date (shooting for 100%). Just as I was starting to make good progress
on my arm / shoulder rehab, I “re-shaped” my thumb on the table saw. That is more painful that the tendon
rupture. I don’t recommend either
though. I’m looking at ~6-8 weeks on
healing the thumb up unless I can get a skin graft soon which I’m told will cut
the healing time by about half.
Putting my condition aside, I’ve been busy prepping the van
as best I can, arranging vaccine shots, figuring out what cell service to use
(Google Fi I think is winning out), buying lots of stuff (keeping the Amazon
Prime delivery people busy), learning Spanish, and a million other little
things.
I’m remaining optimistic that I’ll hit my planned departure
date of January 7. Stay tuned on that ….
