Re: update--well, the news gets worse and better
- From: "Gwen Love" <cglghl@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 30 Sep 2005 09:43:40 -0500
Kate, may God continue working on that miracle for you. Finding your hand
surgeon was just the first part of that miracle; and it is going to continue
from here. Getting it all taken care of and then recovering will not be
easy, but you are a fighter. And it is all going to work out great for you
in the end because you have a good surgeon who knows you and cares about
you. You may have to work on your patience a little in the meantime, but we
are all here to support you. Please keep us posted when you can, as soon
and often as you can.
Love and best wishes, Gwen
"d'huit" <threecedars@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:EZSdneOD8_nZLKHeRVn-vw@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> 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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