I've received the best gift of Christmastime - that my bones are fully healed and I CAN RUN. i saw the last of my x-ray 3 months post op. vast improvement from the previous one. my bones have fully fused together, just leaving the swelling to come down, and the pain on the scar tissue. cant quite wear shoes that'll cut across the scar. but having given the green signal that I can resume rowing and what not just puts me on cloud nine. 

of course, there's a dozen other things to be thankful for this season, from being given the opportunity to go abroad to study, to the love my friends have showered upon me during first few weeks after the surgery, to the jibbitz i've received to decorate my crocs ;) the list goes on.