Re: update: the wrist saga
- From: kenny <kenny@xxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 30 Dec 2005 16:00:55 -0600
You got the part Sleepy, just as long as you don't get Grumpy. Glad
everything went so well so far. Have a Happy New Year.
~Kenny
On Fri, 30 Dec 2005 02:58:59 -0800, "d'huit"
<threecedars1@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>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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