Rsser's accident.

[Terry B]

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

Good news.
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.

[rsser]

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.

[tea lady]

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

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

[rsser]

Good lateral thinking TL.

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

[rsser]

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.

[NeilS]

...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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[rsser]

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.

[tea lady]

Good to have something else to distract you. (Always someone worse off though. )

[rsser]

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

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 ;-}

[tea lady]

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 ;-}

[Grumpy John]

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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 ;-}

Choppin' to Chopin how cool is that .

[rsser]

:d

[NeilS]

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 ;-}

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

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[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, ?!

[Grumpy John]

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, ?!

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.