Re: update--well, the news gets worse and better
- From: "d'huit" <threecedars@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 2 Oct 2005 14:29:40 -0700
me toooo. thanx, nikki.
kate
"nikki" <wolfgirl@xxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Hi Kate,
with all this mess, I am happy your handsurgeon is going to help you
thoughts going your way
Nikki
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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