missing a piece of my hand
I know I posted at least once about falling a breaking my wrist last August. Quick recap: fell down the stairs (while I had meningitis), broke my scaphoid bone (tiny bone below the thumb) but didn't discover it was broken for 3 months. Unfortunately, this particular bone tends to not heal well, especially if someone goes around trying to use it like normal instead of keeping the wrist immobilized in a cast (yeah, that would be me). So a few months ago, as the pain in my wrist was getting worse instead of better, I was referred to our hand specialist...did a repeat MRI, found that instead of healing normally, my body decided to form a cyst where the fracture was. And the solution? Surgery, of course. The original plan had been to wait until September because it would be easier to rearrange my schedule then...but the pain kept getting worse so I said screw it and scheduled the surgery for the end of June (also conveniently falling in the insurance benefit period where I'd already met my deductible). The plan was to scope the wrist and see if it looked like there was arthritis in that joint as a second possible cause of the pain and if there was, do the "definitive" arthritis surgery and just take out the end of the bone. The other option was just to take out the cyst part and do a bone graft. Obviously, the second option sounded much better...so of course it ended up being the first scenario. Torn up joint/cartilage/etc. coupled with a osteoporotic scaphoid. So now part of it is *gone*.
The surgery was 2 weeks ago, I got the cast/splint off on Monday, now in a removable brace but not supposed to do any "weight-bearing" for another month. Unfortunately, Liam doesn't quite understand this concept, which has led to more tears than normal. I can pick him up if I put all the weight on the brace (basically using the side of my wrist instead of my hand), but it's an awkward endeavor at best. Overall though, things do seem to be healing. Still hurts more than before the surgery but that's to be expected at this point. Not really taking any pain meds though as it's tolerable as long as I don't do anything stupid. Which I'm trying really hard not to do, as I definitely want it to heal correctly this time, otherwise this whole surgery idea was a huge waste.
But I'm still kind of sad that part of my wrist is just *missing*...
The surgery was 2 weeks ago, I got the cast/splint off on Monday, now in a removable brace but not supposed to do any "weight-bearing" for another month. Unfortunately, Liam doesn't quite understand this concept, which has led to more tears than normal. I can pick him up if I put all the weight on the brace (basically using the side of my wrist instead of my hand), but it's an awkward endeavor at best. Overall though, things do seem to be healing. Still hurts more than before the surgery but that's to be expected at this point. Not really taking any pain meds though as it's tolerable as long as I don't do anything stupid. Which I'm trying really hard not to do, as I definitely want it to heal correctly this time, otherwise this whole surgery idea was a huge waste.
But I'm still kind of sad that part of my wrist is just *missing*...