Rsser's accident.

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Originally Posted by rsser

Maybe only the private patients get the Stainless steel wires :rolleyes:

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That'd be right. :C

Good luck for this arvo.

- Michael

Well it's a pleasure to share the good news with all of you who have been so supportive :)

The specialist said that alignment thru 1 axis was fine; thru the other not so good. But that at least another 3 months of rehab was nec. to determine if that was going to be a prob., and probably much longer, and even then it would not be too late for a surgical correction. In many cases he said, folk adapt or their wrists adapt without pain (echoes of our 'Dr Neil' there :D ).

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:wave: Good to hear. So ya still wearing the splint and everyhting? I guess it seems like its a bit more worth it when someone can give you a better idea of things.:cool:

Zaccly!

yeah, lots more splint - bone formation around the fractures = another 5 weeks or so. Need it to take any load.

muscles have atrophied as well.

so rehab = more stretching exercises and rebuilding muscle strength.

progressively the silver hand-cuff will come off

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That's excellent news Ern. Really good to hear after a few downers.

Just keep at it day by day.

cheers,
Dave

good new mate:2tsup:

Good news. Keep the physio going, and see what the next couple of months bring.

- Michael

Thanks guys.

Makes me think of the hand and its prospects in a diff., more +ve way.

No prob keeping up with the exercise discipline; have had plenty of practice with 2 knees, 1 hip joint and chronic lower back probs. :- Wld be a basket case without physio. :2tsup:

So Ern how does the bike handle after its little escapade down the black stuff?

























What you haven't been on it - now you know a real bikie couldn't go 3 months between rides.

Chin up the next ride is around the corner. (no pun intended)

Cheers

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Originally Posted by rsser

Zaccly!

yeah, lots more splint - bone formation around the fractures = another 5 weeks or so. Need it to take any load.

muscles have atrophied as well.

so rehab = more stretching exercises and rebuilding muscle strength.

progressively the silver hand-cuff will come off

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Good news.:2tsup:
The bad news is that it takes about 2x as long to build up the atrophied muscles as it took to lose them. Lots of exercises yet to come. You now need to work out how to do the exercises and some woodwork at the same time.:U

Yeah. Factor of 2 eh? Oh well.

It's gaining in strength and flex'y fast now.

Got some plane soles to flatten; wonder how that wld go. Need a WWing physio to advise.

Will have to regrow most of the calluses too which flaked off. That was gross.

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Originally Posted by rsser

Will have to regrow most of the calluses too which flaked off. That was gross.

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:yuck: Maybe you should have kept them and glued them back on with super glue. :D:rolleyes:

Good lateral thinking TL.

Maybe if I had access to some surgical CA some prosthetic calluses cld be layered up :rolleyes:

y'day was another review with the hand therapist.

there's another 5* rotation of forearm, palm up and palm down, plus wrist up and down. good news.

rotation of forearm palm up shld be going faster so she's making a device to do that without my effort. kinky.

TAC has approved a treatment program of 20 hrs consult time with her. so that's a relief as well as a signal.

a bunch of new exercises to do & she's happy with light loading in shed work. only 5 mins on, then 30 mins off to see the effect. at that rate flattening a no. 7 plane sole is gunna take a while!

continued dullness of feeling in the palm is apparently a danger sign, that the hand might decide to shut down after the trauma, so I have to take it seriously.

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...there's another 5* rotation

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I guess that would make you a "1.55 handed woodworker" now...:)

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LOL. Guess it shld be 1.6 today.

P.T. teaching started again today & it was great to be back, engaging with bright young minds, taking my mind off degrees of rotation.

One poor lass had had her forearm in a splint for 10 months during Yr 12 due to RSI. Her GP gave her 2 cortisone injections and she was sick with the side-effects for 8 days before the exams.

Good to have something else to distract you. :cool: (Always someone worse off though.:rolleyes: ):D

yeah; amazing that kid still scored the astronomical ENTER she did.

well back to the grind; yesterday I overdid the exercises and the paw bit back big time. was crapping myself about the longer term effects but it pulled up OK this morning.

have spent the day on and off in the shed rehabbing a couple of Stanley planes; the steel in those orig irons might be carp but it sure takes a while to properly flatten one, even starting with 80g W&D. have decided the no. 7 iron is gunna have the corners rounded off cos I'm sick of trying to flatten to them :B

Edit: can now distinguish 4 pain patterns, inc the 2 bad ones. Happily messing about in the shed doesn't seem to lead to those. Woohoo!

Meantime, can cook again, using those awesome Japanese knives that only take two fingers and a thumb to hold. With a glass of wine, and Rubinstein playing Chopin on the stereo, I feel no pain at all ;-}

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Originally Posted by rsser

Meantime, can cook again, using those awesome Japanese knives that only take two fingers and a thumb to hold. With a glass of wine, and Rubinstein playing Chopin on the stereo, I feel no pain at all ;-}

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:rolleyes::cool:

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Meantime, can cook again, using those awesome Japanese knives that only take two fingers and a thumb to hold. With a glass of wine, and Rubinstein playing Chopin on the stereo, I feel no pain at all ;-}

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Choppin' to Chopin how cool is that :cool:.

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Meantime, can cook again, using those awesome Japanese knives that only take two fingers and a thumb to hold. With a glass of wine, and Rubinstein playing Chopin on the stereo, I feel no pain at all ;-}

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Unless, you cut yourself with one of those knives. The pain will come...it's just delayed by a millisecond or two...:U

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LOL. Yeah, they cut thru skin like it wasn't there. You stare down at this hurting finger, see the blood bead around the cut and wonder, ?!

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Originally Posted by rsser

LOL. Yeah, they cut thru skin like it wasn't there. You stare down at this hurting finger, see the blood bead around the cut and wonder, ?!

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The sign of a truly sharp blade, you never feel the cut, just see the blood. For about 30 seconds it doesn't register that it's your blood. Bonus is that a sharp blade doesn't leave much of a scar.

True.

'less the blade was loaded with raw chicken; onion juice also adds to the experience.

Get into some of the Baroque music Ern. It is supposed to stimulate the mind - IN ALL THE DESIRABLE WAYS OF COURSE! :D:D

Glad to see you are improving so well>:):)

Thanks artme.

I'm not a big fan of the Baroque, but the +1 is going to take me out to a live performance of the Goldberg Variations and real is always better than canned so we'll see.

Well, another chk with the hand therapist and there's no more progress, so 1.6 handed it remains.

Must say it's a b*gger. Have to stretch and strenghten but avoid pain; but the pain takes half an hour or more to kick in, so it's all guesswork.

Getting a good night's sleep remains hit and miss.

Anyway, went out to lunch today with another of the 'decked and wrecked' in the club and we enjoyably exchanged our tales of woe.

Meantime I've developed a taste for reading about Everest assaults. The authorised account of the expedition to find Mallory's and Irvine's bodies is a gem.

Have only been in the Himalaya once; 4,200m at Annapurna Base Camp, preceded by a day's trek of 1200m vertical to Machapuchare Base Camp; next day a short trek to ABC. Mind boggling views. And this was merely the start of expeditions to greater heights up there.

The books provide a kind of insight into why folk put themselves on the edge.

Hi Ern,
Too, Charles Kingsford Smith and those Magnificent Men by Peter FitzSimons is a good long read giving an idea why people put themselves on the edge. Some idiosyncrasies in his grammar were a bit off-putting though...
keep your chin up...
cheers
Michael

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Must say it's a b*gger. Have to stretch and strenghten but avoid pain; but the pain takes half an hour or more to kick in, so it's all guesswork.
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Not that my CT op compares in any way with your hand damage Ern, but after a couple of hours shed time earlier today my left hand is giving me hell ATM. It's a bit of an art to know when to stop so that the pain doesn't kick in a few hours later.

Hey John - as my 19YO daughter says to me

Suck it up princess :D:D:D:2tsup::2tsup:

Yeah GJ. Just do a bit more each time from the pain-free base and then see what happens is the theory.

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Hey John - as my 19YO daughter says to me

Suck it up princess :D:D:D:2tsup::2tsup:

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Not complaining, just empathising. I'll not do it again O.K. :p :D

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Yeah GJ. Just do a bit more each time from the pain-free base and then see what happens is the theory.

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I don't think it is a matter of how long I'm using the hand for, more a matter of what I'm doing with it, i.e. stretching, pressing, gripping etc. I have limited grip strength at the moment so I'm using my non preferred hand for most things I do around the shed.

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I have limited grip strength at the moment so I'm using my non preferred hand for most things I do around the shed.

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Dont you hold the VB with one hand while you take the top off with the other (two handed operation isnt it??:?:?

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Dont you hold the VB with one hand while you take the top off with the other (two handed operation isnt it??:?:?

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Yes, and it hurts. But the VB acts as pain relief and so it's worth it :D.

FWIW a friend who had the snip took months to get grip back.

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I now have a strap that spirals from the hand up the forearm and around the elbow, to encourage twisting so that the palm will face upwards properly.

Not game to wear it in public yet.

Someone might drop a coin into the palm :-

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I now have a strap that spirals from the hand up the forearm and around the elbow, to encourage twisting so that the palm will face upwards properly.

Not game to wear it in public yet.

Someone might drop a coin into the palm :-

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Or ask what your hourly rate is for a session? ....:o

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Or ask what your hourly rate is for a session? ....:o

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Meantime I've developed a taste for reading about Everest assaults. The authorised account of the expedition to find Mallory's and Irvine's bodies is a gem.

Have only been in the Himalaya once; 4,200m at Annapurna Base Camp, preceded by a day's trek of 1200m vertical to Machapuchare Base Camp; next day a short trek to ABC. Mind boggling views. And this was merely the start of expeditions to greater heights up there.

The books provide a kind of insight into why folk put themselves on the edge.

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:CYou're not planning a mountain assault are you? You can't go and get frost bite in 'em after you've nursed 'em back to health. :doh:

So why DO people put themselves on the edge? :think: I find normal life enough of a challenge. :shrug: