Day 12

Today was another crazy wound day, but a lot of repeaters that I had told to come back. The wounds are all healing well. It is amazing what anwound can do when it has a dressing on it ! It is about900000 degrees today. This is the first day where I was like Wow, this is hot! But since I live the heat I don't mind . The rest of the crew however was not so pumped . That is all for today!

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