Re: update--well, the news gets worse and better
- From: "d'huit" <threecedars@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 30 Sep 2005 03:05:29 -0700
"Squirrely" <squirrely@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Kate,
<very gentle snips of things i loved receiving>
I wish there was something I could do for you to help out.
<very gentle snips . . .>
you just *did*, jo. you really did. thank you, for helping me out,
bigtime, by being your loving and caring self. that helps me more than you
know. right now, that's exactly what i needed most.
kate
>
>
>> than what the er doc said. so, there's a bright side.
>>
>> i saw the ortho surgeon first. he said i broke the radius head in at
>> least 12 pieces, did crsh half the ulnar head, drove a couple or a few
>> piecs between both the ulnar and radius, and have 3 cracks running
>> laterally and felt my osteopenia caused at least part of the damage.
>> said he figured he could do surgery on me tomorrow and would have to use
>> pins, plates, screws and an external, to my skin thingy to hold things in
>> place for six months. and it would take a year to heal, but my hand would
>> never be the same. he asked if i ever hand hand surgery before. told
>> him about my ct surgery in that same hand and how i loved my hand
>> surgeon, but that he retired. asked me who taht surgeon was. when i
>> told him, he said sandboulte didn't retire, contrary to what my pcp told
>> me. said if i liked and trusted taht surgeon, he wouldn't feel bad at
>> all if i went to him.
>>
>> so, with my son in tow since he was driving, we headed with my xrays to
>> my hand surgeon's office, on sheer instinct, without calling first. not
>> something i would ordinarily do.
>>
>> told deskgal about why i was there. deskgal said dr. was only in on
>> tuesdays, wednes. and thurs. and was booked solid until the 11th. told
>> her how much i loved him for a doctor and that i would take the first
>> available cancellation. told her i wanted him to have my xrays first and
>> i gave them to her. she immediately took them to his nurse, who
>> apparently looked at them and decided to call him into the hallway to
>> show them to him. next thing i knew, his nurse called me back there and
>> put alex and me in the plastering room.
>>
>> alex and i were floored. he squeezed me in to see him right away! he
>> said he noticed two more breaks than the gen. ortho and radiologist did.
>> i broke the head clean off the ulnar in addition to crushing part of it
>> and fractured around another small bone i can't remember the name for.
>> said most non-hand specialists would figure a year to mend, though
>> poorly. he said if he doesn't rush to do all the surgery at once and
>> makes the repairs in stages he should be able to restore most of my
>> hand's funtion in maye 6 months, or more, depends. said he's thinking he
>> can do part of it arthrosocpically and a different stage open hand. he
>> said he wasn't going to pretend it is going to be easy, because it was
>> going to be a lot of hard work for both of us. i told him i'm willing to
>> work hard if he was. said he knew what kind of patient i am, because of
>> how hard i worked the last time. also said my osteo isn't bad enough to
>> cause all that damage. he felt that i must have overcompensated trying
>> to protect my ankle when i felt it twisting out from under me, which
>> caused me to land mainly on my hand, because my hand bones are literally
>> stoved into my wrist bones and my wrist is dislocated. the part of the
>> bone that holds the wrist straight in alignment broke away. it stll will
>> reqire pins, plates, screws and that weird external thing to decompress
>> my wrist. but i know how meticulous this surgeon is and how very much he
>> cares about giving people back their lives.
>>
>> i'm so relieved and feel so good about having my hand surgeon take care
>> of this. alex is very impressed with him and feels good about him
>> working on this mess for me. alex never met him before
>>
>> sandboulte said, "no wonder th oxycodone isn't working for you!" when i
>> showed him the bottle. left the room for a few minutes. came back and
>> said he called the er to check my chart, the instructions on the bottle
>> had me taking half of what i was given to me in the er. he said, "that's
>> not enough pain control for this amount of damage. double it." and he
>> wrote me another 'script so i wouldn't run out before my first surgery
>> next friday. and he felt the crude er splint was causing some pain. so
>> he had that changed to less bulky and a mor neutral position for my hand.
>>
>> so, mri's of my hand happen tomorrow. my bud, glo, is taking me
>> tomorrow. i can hardly believe glo thanked me for thinking of her to ask
>> for her help! isn't thanking my job, since i'm doing all the taking?
>> what a sweet friend she is! tuesday is my pre-op appmt. and next friday
>> begins my surgery saga. alex will take me for surgery. migth need a cab
>> for pre-op, but i'm cool with that.
>>
>> so, that's how it goes for me. i like the way goodness and challenges
>> are working together at this time.<smile>
>>
>> kate
>>
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