My family, thank you all for your love and best wishes!
I don't like it, but I'm becoming one-hand proficient when it comes to typing and dressing. Right now, I'm managing my pain pretty well; the damnable ITCHING, less well... I have some loss of feeling in my thumb, right where it attaches to my hand, but I am told that this should return.
I've been pushing myself to the limits of my pain tolerance because I have no wish to get hooked on the Percosets. 12 hours seems to be my limit, if I supplement with Advil and Tylenol. Without the heavy-duty meds, I have been able to tell that I definitely don't have whiplash, back pain, or any other injuries the pain pills could have been masking. I honestly thought I wouldn't be hurting so much, so many days after my injury, but I can feel my broken bones... shift... and we've had rainy weather that makes me ache. Eventually, I break down and reach for the narcotics... This pain makes me rather... grumpy... so I wasn't able to attend the second night of the Memorial Festival. I was planning to write out a dance which I could cut and paste into the room, but that just didn't happen. I know that no one expected it of me -- but I expected it of myself. Still, working on the camp website, avatars, training projects, and such, keeps me distracted and makes me feel useful. I HATE feeling like a helpless invalid!
So on to the meat of the update...
Surgery is slated for the morning of Thursday the 20th. Small, thick sheets of stainless steel will plate together the ends of my radius and ulna. Luckily, the breaks were clean -- no splinters. I was expecting to be placed in a cast or another heavy splint after the surgery, but nope... I'll start physical therapy right away to start regaining maximum mobility and sensation.
I have been told that I may loose some feeling in my hand after the surgery, but that this numbness should go away after some weeks or moths... As I understand it, there's also a small chance that the ulna will not re-knit properly, as there is in all cases like mine, and that a second surgery would then be required; but my particular doctor has never had an ulna fail to mend. (I put my foot down, and I made sure that I got the best!)
Taryn -- you have an IM!
my mirror -- of course you can call! Between 1-7 p.m. is best.