Wrist Surgery Update

[SiouzQ.]

My guess is that occupational therapy won't start for 6 to 8 weeks, in the meantime the splint is on 24/7. The new custom splint is more streamlined and quite a bit for comfortable. But things still hurt, quite a lot. I had to drive into Santa Fe again this morning for a PT session on my lower back/hip problem. Two days in a row of driving that far has made me exhausted and in more pain, so I am going to take it real easy the rest of the day and read (and nap) in bed. I have to rest my right hand (the dominant one) so I don't blow that out as well while the left is healing.

It'll be a cozy afternoon in my tiny house; it's cold, and grey, and snowing-sleeting off and on. I have lots of books, some new tea and a heating pad for the back. The only thing missing is a kitty to snuggle with...

[SiouzQ.]

My, how time flies! Tomorrow I am going in to get the titanium plate taken out of my left arm. The bone is completely healed, but the plate itself is a bit annoying-feeling, as she warned it might become (it makes my forearm feel weird in the position it needs to be in when I play guitar). Plus, I have already hit my out-of-pocket expenses for the year from the insurance company so I might as well get it done and get it paid for.

So, since everything is being paid for until the end of the year, I went ahead and got the MRI done for the right hand and wrist. I have the exact same congenital-degenerative problem on the right hand, which is fast becoming about as sore as the left wrist was. Surgery for that is tentatively scheduled for mid-October, after the busy season in the gallery. That recovery is going to to way harder, being that it is my dominant hand. I don't want to think that far ahead; I just need to get through this little surgery tomorrow and my procedure next week for my other pressing problem.

It's always something these days....

[Teacher Terry]

Sorry to hear about your right wrist. I learned to do a lot of things with my left hand after breaking my right wrist. It really sucked and 4 months later I am still recovering. You have had so many things go wrong this year. Time for your luck to change.