Re: update--well, the news gets worse and better
- From: "d'huit" <threecedars@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 30 Sep 2005 18:30:46 -0700
"debbie m." <dmal8@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> Kate,
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> Good news about your hand doc. Please know you are in my thoughts.
> Are you still going to be sending out your funnies through the e-mail?
> LOL I look forward to seeing them.
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> debbie m.
LOL! i will when i can. LOL love that you asked that!LOL too cute.<g>
kate
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> d'huit wrote:
>> 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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