A wound suffered during Memorial Day weekend (more than six months ago) was declared healed this week with fitting of a compression rig that restores vascular circulation. It is something that I will wear, while working and taking part of other routine activities each day but can be removed for sleeping and bathing.

After six months spent mostly flat on my back with either a wound vacuum cleaning out an abscess or treatment by a wound doctor at Carilion NRV, mu legs and most other muscles in my body are weak and need exerticse to get back up to speed.

i missed most of the FCHS footballl seasob abd other evebts abd/or meetigs that I cover for The Floyd Press and hope to returb to the just beginning basketball seasob and, perhaps, a wrestling meet or two in the coming weeks.

Circuit Court, another activity on my beat for the paper, has been slow to get started after the election but will have plenty to do, starting next Tuesday.

My apologies to the players and their parents for missng so many of the games. Old age, it seems, caught up to me.

Always, i will have photos taken for the paper or other ones, available for download at no charge.

Let the games begin.