And good riddance! Clare gets her “short cast” removed!
Reviewing, she broke her scaphoid bone at its “waist,” one of the most difficult breaks for mending and healing (because the blood supply is meager). But after one week in a splint, a month in a “long cast” — http://365project.org/rhoing/365/2013-08-05 — and a month in this short cast, it has healed! The orthopaedic surgeon described her x-ray as “perfect.” Twice. Now onward to physical therapy: 3 visits next week, then twice-a-week for 3 weeks. Then back to the MD.
And, yes. We’ll take another 500-tablet bottle of “Vitamin I” (ibuprofen)…
Retired economics professor (“dismal scientist”). Married 40+ years to the love of my life; we have two grown daughters, both married, two granddaughters and a...
@tryingforsighs What a way to begin retirement, indeed! At least she was having fun. She was in charge of a week-long college summer camp for high school girls: "Girls Make Movies". One night they went roller skating to skate and shoot the area's roller derby team. Clare thought, "One more lap and then I'll help the girls get their skates off." That was the lap when she fell backwards, her arms went down to break her fall and the radius bone had a collision with the scaphoid…
@tryingforsighs Very smart, Rachel! Unless you can avoid the reflex of putting out your arms to break your fall if you fall! The PA (physician's assistant) we saw had suffered the same injury once and said, "It's not fun." He wasn't kidding. The injury itself is painful. The casts are painful. Slow to heal. And then physical therapy will hurt, too. So it's mostly 3 months of pain. I had kidney stones and while that pain was intense, I was mostly past the pain in 3 *weeks*. I can't imagine 3 months of hurting mostly all-the-time!
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