Feb 21, 2018
Ten Years On
Ten years ago tonight, I was recovering from the first of two surgeries needed to reconstruct my right leg after I was struck and dragged down the road by an Access-a-Ride van. (For more on that story, see here and here.) The first surgery installed a titanium rod and pins to hold my splintered femur together, but it would take a second surgery to close the leg up, and a third to replace my powdered collar bones. Until then, I was one big open wound.
In some ways, I still am.
Read “Vanniversary X: Notes from a Long Recovery”