scratching

Mom's awake. She's apparently scratched her leg back open. The way Dad put it was: "She just set herself back a week in terms of healing." Self-sabotage seems to be a recurrent trope. Oy gevalt.

UPDATE: It occurred to me that the above paragraph might cause some people to wonder whether Mom's going back to the ER. No, she isn't. It's not as though she'd scratched her leg to ribbons; she simply scratched open a few itchy spots around the harvest site on the back of her left thigh. Dad has bandaged the area heavily to prevent further scratching.


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