It doesn't hurt quite as bad as it looks
Here:



Underneath that yucky iodine yellow gauze are seven stitches that look like little black ants sitting on my arm (just to make a gross situation even more gross). Hopefully, on Friday, the doctor will remove the stitches and I can start showing off this new man-made scar of mine.

I still can't fully straighten my arm but I've been stretching it out as much as possible and it seems to be slowly progressing toward its original range of motion. The pain and swelling is way down, and I made it through most of today without taking a single pain pill (prescription or Advil), although the result is that I can feel a "tugging" sensation around the incision when I move my arm.

I'll probably need some physical therapy to help my arm remember how to straighten itself but otherwise things are coming along very well.