Tag: healing

I can do this!

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The following is being typed wiht both hands.  I will not make a correction unless it comes out rude.  😉

It would seem that zi was suffering a miscommunication when zi talked to the Dr.  When he told me 2 months it was for the WHOLE PROCESS:  Surgery, cast, and physical therapy!

This means that the 10 days in the temp cast counts as week one and now I only have 3 weeks of cast torture to go.  We also discussed the Castrophobia issue and I found out it is common.  It is thought to be linked to the strong pain medications as well as the swelling.  Glad I din’t take the pain meds longer than I did or I might well have gnawed of the temp cast!  😛

On typing wiht both hands… The hard cast completely covers my thumb but leaves my fingers wiht less coverage and therefor more mobility!  So, since I’m under strict orders to keep those four fingers in action I am gyping.  Albeit, not very good typing.  😉

Still unable to take any pictures at all.  The weight of the camera is too great.  Sorry. But I can show you what it looks like, though on mine the thumb is completely covered.

And yes, it is pink,  though I toyed with the pink camo option for about a minute….  Yes there really is a pink camo option.
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You can find it here at ORTHOTAPE

Maybe it’s a southern thing?

🙂

 

OK finger exercise session done for today.

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Castrophobia*

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This will be short as I type with one finger.

Surgery seems to have gone well.  Pain meds had to be doubled the first two days, then only Tylenol, and since Friday no meds !  😀

Swelling was horrifying!  Fingers looked like Vienna sausages having no wrinkles at all!

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Vienna sausage (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

Swelling is now gone.  😀

Post-op visit today to remove stitches and get new permanent cast…

I hope I survive two months of this.  The temporary one has had me in moments of delirium because of the suffocating feeling and immobility it induces… I find that to be totally ironical having had bouts of agoraphobia over the last few years.  LOL!

*ON CASTROPHOBIA:  The real term is cast claustrophobia.   I was feeling the need to rip the thing off with my teeth on several occasions this past week.  Thankfully it went away spontaneously, by the end of the week, when the last of the swelling went down! I hope it really was swelling induced and will not return.  😯

Meanwhile, Bob will continue to do all my chores that require both hands.

BIG CHEERS FOR BOB!

Comments will of course cheerfully accepted, but won’t be responded to.  I’m sorry.

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The Little Dog is mending nicely!

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I have been rather invisible since I last told you about little Tucker.  However, I have good news!  He is nearly mended!  His wound has was scabbed and down to the size of a pea last night.  This morning he got to it and the scab is missing…

I’m telling you that little dog has OCLD!

That would be obsessive compulsive licking disorder.  He simply doesn’t seem able to stop.  (sigh)

What I couldn’t imagine was…  How he could get to it at all!

He was outfitted in a cervical collar and a cone device.  We started with the collar, and then tried the cone, and finally ended up putting on both.  This worked for a bout a week, and then he found out how to get at it again!

Then I saw this:  doggie Lederhosen!

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And,  Ta-DA…

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Doggie Lederhosen were imagined for the little pup!

They were easily fashioned using my scissors and man-sized, white tube socks!  Although, I will admit that it took several iterations and alterations to arrive at the two sock model shown here…

Now that he is well armored he’s miserable, as am I,  but at least he is almost all healed,  and I’m grateful for that!

Even if he is not.

 

A moment in time

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Saturday was an epic day.  I was able to slowly, and carefully, walk the whole trail at the Mountain Farmlet.  I won’t say my knee didn’t hurt, but I didn’t swell up either.  Then on the way home we saw this…

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It was a promise of rain on the way that was delivered overnight.  We are not  in the deep freeze, and life is getting more comfortable!

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How was your weekend?

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By the way,  I went to the specialist and I have arthritis in my knee.  No surprises there I guess.   I have it in my fingers and elsewhere, though thankfully not so painfully.  The Dr gave me several options;  I chose a shot and some exercises to do, with a return appointment scheduled for the end of February.  By the way, I am happy to tell you that a shot in your knee is way less painful than one in your thumb joint!  😉