Who Hexed Me? :)
The HP community is a caring place to be. I appreciate the warm thoughts a bunch of you sent me when apollinav posted a picture of the torture instrument Lord Voldemort chained me to in his dungeon traction device the ER doc used to reset my wrist last night. All the ER staff kept peeking in my door to see it - it must not get used much!
I actually do have a lot to be thankful for:
- it was my left hand, not my wand hand
- I actually have good insurance through my job, so can go to St Mungo's with confidence
- a good friend lives in my bldg; she flew me on her broom to the ER at 11PM, then stayed with me for 3 hrs and then drove flew me back home
- I haz lotsa love from my witchly friends here to provide comfort for my hurt. :)
I think it was Severus in disguise who made my cast. He had an excellent pair of tattoos... too cheery to be the Dark Mark, but they were on his left arm. :) The writing on the top says, "all bleeding stops," a motto from an ER where he used to work.
As tempted as I am to say this was the result of a Confundus Hex or Jellylegs Curse, or other spell aimed at me as I transpoted Helga Hufflepuff's Cup into the descent of the Valley of Gloom, I'll fess up and admit I was going down my back steps, taking out the trash, thought I was at the bottom, but had one more step to go and... kerplunk.
One distal radial fracture. I think that's what it's called - I fractured the end of my radius where it joins my wrist. Will soon see a hand specialist, who will give me more answers. Trying to resing myself to possibly 6 weeks in this dang thing.
Never fear, I'll be at zibit_con_09 (easier to spot, now!), and will be sporting a new cast-wand holster. It was interesting that the docs specifically told me I should not use any long thin instruments to get under my cast if it got itchy. How did they know I had a new wand??
The last picture shows me ready to go home with the ENORMOUS cast they gave me - it allows swelling without great discomfort but is dang heavy.
Well, it beats a broken leg, I guess. :)
Ah, the codeine laced Advil is steering me toward dreamless sleep. Thanks again for all the love sent this way!