Yesterday was my first day back to work after being semi-confined to my cell with a two-week medical restriction...
I still feel weak, however, but the swelling in my left foot has gone down considerably and there's only a slight amount of pain remaining.
It felt good, being able to once again walk the hallways and corridors and see friends whom I hadn't seen in two weeks. In the morning, I took a sight-impaired inmate to the hospital for his medications and treatments. Then in the afternoon, after the lunch meal, I went to the E-North cell block to spend time with the guys who are in the Intermediate Care Program. They missed me and had been wondering where I was. Now I was able to see Paul, Ozzy, "Jolly Jones," and Larry (who still wears his Army coat even indoors). There were some new faces too of men who had recently transferred to E-North from other prisons.
At three o'clock, however, when I got off work, I was very tired. So I took a nap. I didn't have the strength to go to Monday evening's chapel service. But little by little, as my body heals and my vigor returns, I will be back in full gear. I am still on a mini sabbatical, though. My sabbatical won't end until the last day of March.
D.B.
It felt good, being able to once again walk the hallways and corridors and see friends whom I hadn't seen in two weeks. In the morning, I took a sight-impaired inmate to the hospital for his medications and treatments. Then in the afternoon, after the lunch meal, I went to the E-North cell block to spend time with the guys who are in the Intermediate Care Program. They missed me and had been wondering where I was. Now I was able to see Paul, Ozzy, "Jolly Jones," and Larry (who still wears his Army coat even indoors). There were some new faces too of men who had recently transferred to E-North from other prisons.
At three o'clock, however, when I got off work, I was very tired. So I took a nap. I didn't have the strength to go to Monday evening's chapel service. But little by little, as my body heals and my vigor returns, I will be back in full gear. I am still on a mini sabbatical, though. My sabbatical won't end until the last day of March.
D.B.
