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While I’m here, I’ll give an update on my arm.

So, while I could point and show what the problem is, the bottom line is the hardware needs to come out, a cast will be put on, so that I can heal some bones and rest everything for 6 weeks.

While I’m not looking forward to anesthesia again, I am looking forward to getting the hardware out. I think it is hampering my ability to heal.

I do like the surgeon. She has a lot of good reviews, I think she’ll get this right. She even does nerve repair, so if she perhaps nicked a piece of the nerve which is causing my pinky finger to be numb, I think she can fix that at some point.

So, Tues is the surgery date.

From what I understand, I could draw a picture lol.. I broke the radius in 3 pieces and the ulna in 2. I keep getting asked if my bones are bad (doctors, pa) and the answer is no, but ice is very unforgiving.

I had a CT done Tues and the radiologist said the bones looked solid in my arms and hands. Not in those terms. Haha, I love medical speak, super concise and facts only maam.

“Miminal lucency of distal screws.” “Projectional or artifactual phenomenon.”

I still think when they put the plate on and the screws in, it probably jarred/loosened the bone on the radius and that is the bone that has collapsed down, thus bringing the screws up and they are now pointing in my hand area and causing me a LOT of discomfort. My ulna isn’t healing either. It is also really painful.

I had 2 choices for treatment...Behind door #1 was one was cast it for 12 weeks and hope it heals. But it heals with issues. And behind door #2 was surgery with pins and screws and confetti and balloons and cake and healing in 6 weeks!!!! So, yeah I chose door #2. 🤣🤣

I’m not healed, 8 weeks after the break, 7 weeks after the surgery.

But I’m confident that once I get this hardware out, all will calm down and I will heal those bones with the help of God.

The alternative if I’m not healed in 6 weeks is really nasty bad. They rebreak all the bones, clean the edges, any scar tissue, replate and rescrew.

Mon/Tues I had hit a wall mentally. Today I’m like “GET IT OUT”.