10 days

this is my wrist a day a couple days after surgery

 sore, puffy, strange

it doesnt look like it belongs to me

 

but just 10 days after the surgery and look almost normal. well more normal at least.

still swollen but stitches out and doing physio. now just time and exercises to build my strength and movement back to normal.

wrist

this is my right wrist wednesday before surgery.

thursday morning i went to the sportsmed clinic and had surgery

this is my swollen sausage fingers after surgery. my hand/wrist/arm is sore just need to rest

 

this is me today 3 days after surgery with the xrays taken during surgery. 

my one less hand means a uniform of track pants and little activity. i go back to surgeon in 10 days to find out the details of what happened.

wrist update

about ten weeks ago i broke my scaphoid bone in my right wrist. i was in a cast for 6 weeks, and have now been cast free for 3 weeks. the movement of wrist is still very limited and there is still a fair amount of pain if i try and use it. physio has not really helped. the specialist thinks i may have done 2 injuries at once, rare but not unheard of. i may have broken the scaphoid and possibly also got a scapholunate ligament tear. for more on that go here.

as a way to find out if that is what has happened i had to get an arthrography and then an MRI today. the arthrography involves getting dye injected into the joint before the MRI so it is easier to see everything.

the result is a sore and puffy wrist that again has limited strength and movement. it was painful but not too bad, and just felt weird like this pressure from inside your wrist as it fills with the fluid.

they inject the fluid and take xrays as they do it to make sure they are injecting into the right spot. this xray you can see my wrist and the needle in it.

then i went for the MRI. that was painless. i just laid down in a super man position (arm out stretched like i am flying through the air) and laid still for 15 minutes while the MRI machine made machine gun noises all around me. i have the imagery, (cool but looks like the moon not my wrist) but not the results. i go see the specialist on wednesday. until then no major activity for my right wrist for 48 hours. i wait. i will keep you informed.

broken scaphoid

a week and a half ago i was drilling a hole in some hard wood timber and the drill got caught and spun my wrist snapping my scaphoid.

i didnt even know i had a scaphoid bone until then. it is a small bone and the fracture although through the center did not show up on the xray that day in the emergency department. so i left thinking i had a bad sprain, but the pain did not go away so i went back to the doctors, had more scans, and then found the fracture.

 

eventually i saw the wrist specialist doctor and we discussed the options and decided to treat it with a cast, not surgery. thanks goodness.

 

so this is me for the next 6 weeks, then i will get it taken off and more scans to see where we are at. hopefully all healed, fingers crossed.

today

today i eventually got to my studio, although later than i wanted to, and i then spent a few hours putting the stencil resist onto the 50 odd tiles i have ready for the next piece for the show.



it took longer than i expected, i was hoping to get it all done today, but tomorrow i will spend quite a few hours at the sandblaster. i hope to have this piece completed tomorrow, and maybe installed too.



the tiles at the top of this image are completed. i am really excited to see them all completed, it could be my new favorite piece.

more on the progress of this piece tomorrow.

stitches

here is what my hand looks like with no bandages. still swollen. there appears to be 5 stitches in a neat row. it is the same place my wrist was opened up on the previous surgery.

today is better but still hard to use my hand for very much. my hand is still swollen, and sore but it is getting better every day.

typing with one hand is slow

last tuesday i had surgery on my right wrist. it was to remove a ganglion.

now i am a one handed woman who types slowly with her left hand.



i have been off from work but unable to do anything on my own. it is nice to have time off but i can't do any projects like gardening, or sewing, even writing a list of things to do and planning, my favorite activity is hard because i can not write with my left hand.

it took over an hour to shower and get dressed the other day. but it isn't horrible. borris is taking good care of me and in a week or so i should be able to start doing things on my own.

this is it with the bandage off. it doesn't look too bad, except for my swollen fingers and knuckles. i still can't move my fingers too much without it hurting, so it is me, a good book, 'we are all made of glue' by Marina Lewycka, a very good book in fact and some dvds from the library, and ice cream for the next few days.

making stuff is on hold..........for now.

my excuse...

my excuse for not making any glass lately is my wrist. roughly four years ago i had surgery on my wrist to remove a ganglion cyst. it has been good until recently.



i have had some xrays done and tried some physio and acupuncture to try and alleviate the pain and discomfort. so far nothing has really worked. the acupuncture has helped ease the pain but only for a day or so.

i also had an ultrasound of my wrist done which revealed 3 or 4 very small ganglions. roughly 2 - 3 mm in length. that is small but apparently the wrist joint is very small and even something as small as a grain of rice can cause pain, discomfort and limit the movement of the wrist.

i have an appointment with the hand surgeon tomorrow and fingers crossed i can at least get some advice on what is the best plan to help get me back on the glass and many other activities i find too painful to do right now (like using chopsticks).