A Little Update

Did you read my last post? Did you recommend to a friend? Did you leave a like? Did you subscribe? DID YOU COMMENT?!? If you didn't do any of those things, then you are giving me cancer! Social anxiety cancer or something. And the only thing I know that people actually CAN do is comment.

The thing is, if my audience remains small and unresponsive, I'm going to start questioning my reasons for writing. I'll keep going if I KNOW I have been and still am helping at least one person, but if the views my blog is getting are from people who are actually bringing up my blog  by accident, then working toward a post every other day isn't going to feel good. This will go from a desire to do good in the world to feeling like actual work, and no one is paying me for what started out as a labor of love.

And now for the update mentioned in the post's title. I posted pictures of the skin, or lack thereof, from the diabetic blister I experienced. Well, here's a look at 10 days worth of healing.

What it looked like the day after

it happened.

A week and a half later.

I'm actually glad I took the photos, as I can now chart my own progress in healing. You can see healthy skin growing in, the area of the original wound visibly shrinking. The oddities you may notice in the second picture... That horizontal line is from the ace bandage I've been using to keep gauze in place. I didn't want to risk tape pulling away more skin. And the blue socks with the white print are the non-slip socks they give patients at hospitals. I have several pairs that have followed me over the years, and I sometimes wear them over my white socks to prevent the whites from getting dirty when I go downstairs to check my mail.

That's it. I'm sneaking this post in just under the wire. In 10 minutes, the 16th will become the 17th.

Please... I know I'm coming across as thirsty for validation, but it's needed. Say something so I know if my scribbling is reaching someone who values it.