Wednesday, May 24, 2006

I take these things so I don't feel

I tried hard to get a picture of my cast, but it ended up not working and being extremely painful. You can kind of see my puffy fingers.

For those of you that didn't know, I had surgery yesterday on my left arm for carpal tunnel and cubital tunnel. I am in a full arm cast splint and on loratab (good stuff). I am typing this using one hand ... this experience has made some simple things seem so important. Things I will no longer take for granted:

• Doing my hair.
• Opening up anything with a twist lid, from soda to jam to pain pills.
• Tying shut bread.
• Cutting your food so you can eat it.
• Tearing open a sauce packet.
• Putting up a doggy gate.
• Putting stuff in a shopping bag.
• Dressing yourself.

posted by American Girl at 8:36 PM |

3 Comments:

Commented by  Kate:

I remember when I was in my wrist/thumb brace a couple of years back, I could hardly do anything. I was lucky it was my left, and so are you! :) Imagine if you couldn't use your dominant hand! Hope you have a speedy recovery!

5/25/2006 8:09 AM 

Commented by  C.J.:

Hope you get well soon!

5/31/2006 10:57 AM 

Commented by  Ethan:

So, did the surgery completely do you in? You still with us? How are you doing?

6/21/2006 1:24 PM 

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