Not good news.
Hi folks. If you haven't heard from us in a while- this is probably why: That's Meg's leg, today. The apparatus you're looking at consists of 2 steel pins through her skin screwed into her right tibia; there are two more screwed into the femur at the top end of the high-tech carbon-fiber stiffening bar. She broke her leg on Thanksgiving; and was operated on to install all this that night at the Mayo Clinic. She has another operation scheduled for tomorrow morning (Friday 30th) to actually do the internal pinning necessary to reassemble the top of the tibia. You'll recall that we have horses now... they do a tremendous amount of work for us in clearing grass and brush before chestnut harvest and grazing grass in the hazels; they're highly compatible with these crops, when supervised carefully. One of the horses we have here now is trained to do heavy draft work, however; a registered Spotted Draft in fact. So- we were working on that... Meg is a highly exper...