It's never for nothing

May 21, 2005 11:42

Let's see, I had my surgery on Thursday morning as scheduled. I showed up at the orthopedic surgery place at 6 am, they had me out cold by 7 am and by 9 am they were waking me up to get me ready to go home. I was back in my own bed by 11 am. The metal pin they drilled into my ankle hurt a lot all day, in fact by nightfall it was almost unbearable even with painkillers.

My wrist was so numbed up, that I couldn't feel or move my entire arm at all until late evening, even the muscles. At one point I lifted up my right arm to pull the covers up under it and when I let go to grab the sheets it ended up plumetting like a dead weight...right into my forhead. Those big ass casts hurt! I'm just glad no one else saw it. As the numbness wore off, the pain started up, but surprisingly, my ankle was still worse, even though my wrist now has multiple screws and a metal plate inside it.

The pain has lessened over time and is pretty manageable today. The doctor says my leg will probably take 6-8 weeks to mend while my arm will take 6-9 months, including physical therapy, to get as good as it will get (they still don't know if it will ever get back to 100%).

It seems like I take my friends too much for granted normally. So many people have gone out of their way to help me out, or at least genuinely offer, since my accident. I should be much more grateful of the friends I have. It is easy for me, when things are going well, to become so absorbed in my own little world that I don't invest much into the lives of the other people out there who care about me or to even let them know that I care about them in return.
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