Out For A Bit...

[Joyflyin]

I had my first visit to the doctor this week, according to him, I'm healing great! He has increased my activity to being able to make a fist, I can move my thumb & I am now allowed to move my wrist forward & backward. I am also allowed to work on the computer a bit! Still no lifting or pulling with the right hand however. :O I don't go back to the doc until 1/11/2022. I don't even get to start real therapy until the 14 or 15th of December...Boy that should be a good time! As for the x-ray, it looks really weird. I'm going to try to

I have been good with the Dr.'s orders. I am only doing as instructed for the most part. I may have only overdone it a bit yesterday, therefore, today I have been taking it super easy. The doctor says it will be really hard to do any damage that would require him to go back in, but I could set myself back a bit. But I basically did my exercises a bit tooo much so today I'm only doing about 5 sessions except like 10 times throughout the day.

So today, I have been following my dad's orders of keeping my feet propped up today...but dad says that every day. But honestly, just typing this out has been a bit of a challenge. But I am trying to do a bit more each day on the computer. I have been taking a course for work, but took today off. Part of my 'therapy' has been doing a chapter a day on the computer. That has been wearing me down pretty quick.

As for other big accomplishments, Steve asked me this morning if I have finally learned how to watch a movie? I'm up to watching movies in the 80's & 90's now. Last week & the week before I was watching movies in the 60's & 70's. I have also watched my first movie on Netflix. Oh, yeah, & I watched some series on Apple TV the first week...but I'm having a hard time remembering the name of that one...it was pretty good though. The one about the American football coach hired to coach a soccer team in the UK...(Movies now include Jaws, Fargo, A Family Thing, most of Waterworld & National Lampoon's vacation).

So, in answer to Steve's question...I don't know if I have learned to watch movies or if I have just learned to really hate commercials. Oh yeah, and I actually started using the curbside pickup shopping method & now have most of my Christmas shopping for the grandkids done. So, we are getting there.

 

[gator508]

Joy,
Glad to hear you are progressing with the healing process, hopefully sooner than later. Umm don't veg out on the movies too much, I prefer light reading, don't know if that's too much right now. Good luck

 

[joel]

Good morning.
Glad to hear of your progress .
Therapy will be good as it does speed up getting better.
I was able to go for mine at 6:30 am on my way to work.
Took about 3 months 3 times a day until I was almost able to grab the steering wheel.
Didn't take long after that, I figured out the throttle grip on the bike was good therapy also.

 

[Joyflyin]

Joy,
Glad to hear you are progressing with the healing process, hopefully sooner than later. Umm don't veg out on the movies too much, I prefer light reading, don't know if that's too much right now. Good luck

I'm generally a reader, however, it is hard holding the book & turning the pages is a problem at times. That is mainly why I haven't seen so many of these movies. That, and being the 3rd of 4 children made me the 'remote' when we were growing up. I therefore found that if I took a book and went elsewhere, my older brother or sister, or even the 'baby' of the family couldn't make me go change the channels.

 

[Joyflyin]

I have uploaded the x-ray from last spring as well as the one from last week. It just looks weird

I’ll add ‘posting images from my phone’ to my list of accomplishments too.

 

[Joyflyin]

Now that I know that works, here’s a couple of my couch coach.
Paddington is the best entertainment though, He seems to know my bad days & good days before I do.

 

[liquid_wrench]

Happy to hear your getting better Joy.

 

[gator508]

Joy

So it looks like a piece of bone is missing distal to tour thumb, is that what was removed during surgery.

 

[Joyflyin]

Joy

So it looks like a piece of bone is missing distal to tour thumb, is that what was removed during surgery.

That is correct, they removed the first bone of the thumb, cut a tendon and brought that down & coiled it up in place of the thumb, and relocated a ligament. The last couple of days have been kind of rough, but today is better. I think I was restless in my sleep and moving the arm & trying to move my hand, I would wake up with the hand hurting and not getting back to sleep. But I have seemed to go backwards on my ROM exercises, but mornings are always rough. I seem to have it loosened up a bit by the afternoon. I'm barely making it to 45* when trying to raise my hand back, I have my thumb moving fairly well now, and I'm doing well letting my hand hang down (bending my wrist to point my fingers to the floor). If I turn my arm over to let my hand dangle in the other direction, it is still not making it to 45* comfortably. But like I said, mornings are rough.

I'm still wondering how someone can figure out that we don't really need that bone...

 

[Joyflyin]

Okay, I am a glutton for punishment...since I opted to get my knee scoped last Friday...Today was definitely a 'What was I thinking?' kind of day. I did however take the post op wrap off the knee & it is more comfortable now. But definitely sore. But, on a brighter note, I can already bend it to about 90* & I walked to the mailbox twice plus I proved that I was still the superior being by cleaning up the dog doo from the back yard. Overall a bit of activity but it was spaced throughout the day.

Tomorrow will be the first therapy for the thumb so hopefully that goes well. I have been moving it around pretty well per doctors instructions, so I am hopeful that I am in a good spot overall.

I hope you are all are well and safe from the storms Friday night.