Re: update: the wrist saga

So glad your surgery went well. I hope you heal quickly.
Hugs
Lorrie F
"d'huit" <threecedars1@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> hello my asa family,
>
> this is a pain pill break in my disney audition rehearsals. as you know,
my
> surgery was yesterday. i figured it was about time i stumbled over this
> keyboard on the way to bed or from bed, or something comfy and cozy
related
> to a familiar room.<smile>
>
> i returned home at 4 p.m. yesterday. surgery started about half an hour
> late, this time, but did take 90 minutes and 45 minutes recovery. my
> friend, linda (who took me to the surgical center), suggested to the
> anesthetist (sp?) that she wasn't having me walk out of surgery this time
> (more tactfully than i just put it, of course), like my son told her i did
> the last time. that worked apparently--- i didn't walk out of o.r. this
> time. she told me. she also made sure to remind the nurse to remind my
> doctor to write a pain pill 'script, cuz i knew i'd run out of them in the
> middle of the weekend. i think i want to adopt linda.<g>
>
> i'm not sure if i heard him correctly, having been still a bit woozy
> immediately after surgery. but, it seemed to me that my surgeon said it
> went better than he expected-- think he said he needed to make only two
> incisicons, instead of the 3 and/or possibly 4 incisions he prepared me
for.
> sounded like he didn't have to graft a tendon from someplace else,
afterall;
> that my thumb's tendon stayed close to home when it severed; that the
> rupture wasn't too bad either. think he said the sharp broken bone
> fragments from my wrist caused just enough of a cut or cuts in the tendon
> for it to let go, once the bones healed up, when i started using that
thumb
> again.
>
> i'll know on the 5th, when he removes the sutures, if i heard him
correctly
> about all that stuff. (i'm not sure what i heard.LOL) of course, i have
my
> surgeon's trademark mammoth bandage, that looks and feels like ogg's
> neanderthal club, to contend with until then---so, i know i had the
> operation.LOL you'd crack up if you saw his idea of a bandage---this is
the
> 3rd one of his that i've had. he is definitely consistant about it.
(boy,
> i bet no package he ever shipped had broken contents!--but the postage
costs
> must be staggering.LOL) i do know, for a fact, that he didn't have to
take
> the tendon from my right wrist for my left thumb (like he said he would if
> he couldn't find the extra tendon in my left wrist), cuz i don't have two
> ogg's clubs to juggle at the same time.<smile>
>
> most of the rest of yesterday is kind of fuzzy for some reason. since
> then, i've been sleeping like i've been getting ready for an audition for
> the poison apple scene at the dwarves' cottage.
>
> pain's not bad, just a bit of throbbing, not that abysmal ache that makes
> you want desparately to find a way to run away from, like the last time.
> sooo, i guess i'm doing good for a one-handed gimp.<grin> whoa! just had
> an itch on the owie-hand side of my chest. guess what i just this minute
> found?---one of those 3M red dot lead pads they stick all over people to
> attach lead-wires to for monitoring vitals. boy, i really must have been
> doing an excellent job rehearsing for that audition, eh?LOL egads.
>
> thank you, all of you dear people, for your prayers, good vibes, healing
> thoughts, and just plain ol' dearness that is part of this family's
> character that i know and love. pain pills are kicking in and i hear that
> familiar room hynotically calling to me. hey, all of you have a great new
> year! not just happy, but painfree, prosperous and filled with the
goodness
> you all deserve.
>
> lovingly,
> sleepy
> (and you thought i was rehearsing for the sleeping beauty role, din'tcha?
> i'm too short for it.<g>)
>
>


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