Megan Dahlke

…ock in a sweater with my coffee, with mist coming off the lake and one loon, the young one, alone now that the parents have gone. Thirty-one Septembers running I have unlocked that library on this morning. I had expected to mind. What I felt, when the hour came, was the absence of a weight I had stopped noticing, th…

- Oxycodone 5 mg: one every six hours if needed. Twenty tablets were given and there will be no more. He took one at 6 a.m. and one at bedtime and Tylenol between. - Ice machine: on for 20 minutes of every hour he was awake. - Exercises from the sheet, three sessions: ankle pumps, tightening the thigh, sliding the hee…

…ane. He took eleven of the twenty and wanted the rest out of the house. He walks with a cane indoors now and goes to therapy twice a week with a young woman named Megan. He may not drive until January. I have learned where he keeps the ice scraper (under the seat of the truck, not in the RAV4, where one might need i…

- 24 visits, November 14 to February 9. - Bend: 124 degrees. The other knee does 131. - Straighten: all the way. Zero. - Walking: no cane since Christmas. Stairs foot over foot since January 10.