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Here is the answer to the question that I ended yesterday's post with: Yes! Margie's X-rays showed good progress and she did get her wrist cast removed. Still, she still has a ways to go before her healing is complete.
And when the cast came off, her hand and forearm was dry and itchy.
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Here is how it went down: I drove her to the Alaska Native Medical Center in Anchorage, where she had to wait just a little bit before going in for X-rays.
I had thought she would have to wait longer, so I left her briefly for a restroom visit. When I returned just minutes later, they had already taken her in.
So I did not get any pictures of the X-ray process.
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I was there when the nurse cut off her cast. She said the tongue de-presser was there only for Margie's comfort. "I don't need it," she assured us. "I know what I am doing."
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The nurse was right. She cut that cast off and removed it from Margie's wrist with skill and expertise.
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Margie had been longing to scratch her hand for weeks and now she could, but it and her full forearm was terribly dry. Her skin was peeling.
She rinsed her hand off and then spent some time studying it.
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The break in her kneecap remains significant; in need of a few more weeks time.
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She put her knee brace back on.
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And then, because her wrist needs protection and support, she got a new brace for it.
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Don't worry. She does not need to be in a wheelchair now. It's just that it got hard for her, walking through the hospital. So I wheeled her here and I wheeled her there, then finally I wheeled her to the door, where she got out and walked to the curb.
There, I picked her up in the Escape.