Comments | starshone_storm: Anyone on my flist ever broken their arm?

starshone_storm

Anyone on my flist ever broken their arm?

Aug 19, 2007 13:29

Do they keep you in hospital overnight? Do they chuck a cast on you and talk to you about your arm and let you go? Would they chuck a cast on you while you're unconscious? Does it depend on how badly you broke your arm? How long does it take to heal? Can you do martial arts with one arm ( Read more... )

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fragmentedsky August 19 2007, 02:09:46 UTC

My sister actually broke her wrist two weeks ago, but it wasn't a bone-sticking-out break. She was at the ER for about four hours, but it was really busy, so theoretically it could have been faster, and she had to get her other arm and her back x-rayed too. They sent her home with a sort of temporary cast and she went in like two days later for a legit one that supposedly she can't take off. (ha. they wish. dumbass.)

starshone_storm August 19 2007, 02:53:23 UTC

Hmmm. Thanks for that. (And if she can get her cast off, her resourcefulness scares me.)

fragmentedsky August 19 2007, 02:57:48 UTC

They didn't put it on too tight. Molly's running on the Amherst cross country team this fall, so she generally runs about eight miles a day. And she's not exactly slow about it; she can do two miles (3.3 KM) in under twelve minutes. So she has to wash out her cast or it would stink and probably get infected, so they made it loose enough that she can rinse it out after she runs.

mindchill August 19 2007, 06:34:05 UTC

I once had a really messy break, I fainted too, because of the pain (although I am SUCH a sissy). They sent me home after they X-rayed me, put the bones back together, and put a cast on.

starshone_storm August 19 2007, 08:28:19 UTC

Okay, thanks. Did they x-ray you etc while you were unconscious?

mindchill August 19 2007, 09:29:00 UTC

Oh no, they managed to wake me with bending my arm in all possible and not possible angles during checkup :/

iamlivingmusic August 20 2007, 00:46:03 UTC

The radius would not be poking through his skin if its a compound fracture. They're not often clean breaks. They put the cast on during a local if its a clean break, a grenral is you've cracked as well or if its multipul breaks or if more than a cast is needed (for example i have a metal pin in my arm from when it was broken- it was a clean break through both bones with several cracks- requirred an operation.James (brother) broke his arm two or three weeks ago. One clean break, didn't even but him on a local to put his cast on. My families fairly acident prone.)

starshone_storm August 20 2007, 05:05:54 UTC

I love you but I only understood about every second word in that.

Although it really does tell me that I need to rewrite this. Damn, I liked my dialogue.

rynhaiiro August 20 2007, 13:00:44 UTC

my sister broke her arm and has a cast right now. She was concious and it was a minor break. They shoved it on her after a few hours of the waiting room, then being xrayed, then going to the place where they do it.

She complains about it being itchy a lot. And you have to do arm exercises (flexing your fingers/hand) to help prevent the muscles deteriorating. Like do it 15 times ever half hour or something.