this may be the week

This may at last be the week that my skin heals up. While I've engaged in limited stairs training, what I'm really eager to do is to get out there and walk—not long walks, mind you, but short walks of about 9 or 10 kilometers. It's frustrating, now, how close I am to being completely healed. There's still a tiny bit of leakage; I can see a stain on my sock at the end of a work day, but when I pull the sock off, expecting to feel a damp bandage, I'm surprised to find that the bandage feels dry. So maybe the seepage simply stops or something during the day. I don't know what's going on. Anyway, since that last Friday photo, the skin has closed up even more; this Friday's photo will, I hope, show a completely healed or nearly healed sole. We'll see. In the meantime, I guess I was wrong about needing to expose the skin to dry air at night; I never stopped bandaging everything up and using ointment; I'm also still doing Epsom-salt soaks, and despite all of that, the healing hasn't stopped. (No need for more antibiotics, either.) As they say: if it ain't broke, don't fix it, right? I'm hoping that, by the end of this week, I won't need any more bandages, ointments, or soaks. Fingers and tentacles crossed.

Next week's going to be very busy: Immigration on Monday, dentist on Tuesday, Thanksgiving on Thursday (I start prepping the meal tomorrow so that it'll all be done and ready for next Thursday—stuff that can be made, then fridged or frozen), then departing for Daegu on Friday. And I'm not sure how much I'm looking forward to walking in the beginning-of-winter cold.

UPDATE—Wednesday, November 20: I now have my bus ticket for the 29th to go right back down to Hyeonpoong, and it's a short walk to the Hong-C Motel from there. I'll stay overnight and restart the walk in the morning. I'm excited and a little nervous. It's gonna be cold.