It's not that I haven't wanted to share anything, it's taken this long for my finger to work well enough to type.

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It may seem like you have plenty of fingers to type with until the one responsible for p ' and ? are needed, and it hurts enough to put you off typing at all.

At least when I fell down the stairs, it was too dark to see anything to grab hold of. It sounds scary, but at least it's a cool story to tell since I didn't bother to turn on the light to see which unfamiliar room I was going in. Yeah, it was preventable, most things you don't like happening are preventable, from a certain point of view.

Without telling many details of the fall, at work it caused some of my surgical co-workers to call for an early end to my version...it could have been worse. My neck, which has already had injuries, and my back are fine. It could have ended the trip for this year.

On a Sunday night, after a week of leave, I was getting ready to begin my last three weeks of work. One sudden event, injuring my finger, would take me out of work until my last official day. It isn't the way I'd planned on finishing almost 4 years of employment, but I embrace it as another one of life's circumstances you have to deal with and find your way around.

At a little more than 3 weeks so far, I am almost rid of any pain. It's a good reminder to me how fragile we are sometimes, and why this experience on the trail is so important to begin.