Re: update--well, the news gets worse and better
- From: "DeeTee and Bob Taggart" <ke3iu.no@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 03 Oct 2005 03:46:25 GMT
OH, Kate, that is good news. To have your hand doc back and to have him do
the surgery(ies) is awesome! I know how happy you were with him. Good luck,
sweetie, and keep us informed.
DeeTee
"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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