okay so here's another little gross out opportunity for those of you who enjoy pictures of my wounds ... ahem fishy don't look at this...

I had a different doctor operate on my arm because he had a spot open on Monday instead of Wednesday like I was originally scheduled with Dr. Sullivan. 

This picture is of my ginormous fingers post surgery, not sure what day (I was a little out of it)

Notice how huge my right arm is in comparison to my left.

This is my yucky frail gross skin, not the best picture but seriously it looked like a few days dead persons skin. (I think, I haven't seen a few days dead per

sons skin before but I think you'll know what I mean).

The surgeon isn't sure how I got this fun little cut on my hand, his respo

nse "Uh, you know 

there are drills and tools all over the table..." I've never really seen the obgyn's leave their instruments all over their tables. 

I was told the incision would be on the bottom of my wrist, so it looked 

like I slit my wrist (for a visual), or so I was told. But they told me at my appointment that they took x-rays before cut time to make sure they go in the right way, it all depends on the direction the bones go out of place.

Again my insanely swollen and fat fat fat fingers.

 These are the fun. finger socks (kinda like ted hose) that I get to wear. I know totally ugly right?! Wrong, hello my disgustingly fat fingers are now somewhat back t normal looking. My knuckles on the other hand, goo! My elbow is not nearly as swollen as it once was and no longer looks like I have congestive heart failure edema anymore. I also have a fun. multi colored yellowish green bruise on my elbow. The lighting isn't very good right now so I can't get a descent picture of it. I get to move my thumb in the cast I have this time, I won't lie it's a little odd, none of my prior casts have allowed me any sort of thumb freedom. I keep this cast for 4 weeks then who knows. I am meeting with my original doctor next week to find out what will happen after the cast, I didn't believe asking the surgeon who operated would give me any answers merely because all he told me about my surgery was "That was a difficult surgery." His resident gave me more information.

p.s. surgery sucks, pain medication makes me vomit, & sleeping with a splint/cast is a pain... but I am grateful to have it over with. With a little physical therapy my fingers are moving a lot better, still super stiff, but with a little work will hopefully be as god as new. I am going to have a pretty legit tan line from the cast. I now have a plate and 5 screws in my wrist, pretty cool?! Spring is still trying to figure out how to be Spring but it's doing better than it was. I was able to work today doing 'this-es & thats' but work is work and making money to pay for my new metal. 

p.p.s. I paid off my student loan with my tax return! Life has a funny way of doing things, don't ya think?

x-rays

I finally managed to scan them in for you. These aren't the very first x-rays I had done in PC, but the scans from Dr Sullivan's office.

the results are in and....

Looks like it's bad news bears, gonna have a plate and some screws placed in my wrist. i'll try and scan the new x-rays in tomorrow.

BUT on a happier note, I was able to work a little bit today and will work tomorrow...

oh and yay for tax returns, might be able to pay off that student loan by May after all.

Gosh I love making lemonade!

sorry this is so delayed...because I know you all are dying to hear about my wrist

Last Thursday, 04.02.09, I met with a Dr. Charles Sullivan and one of his residents, after they looked at the x-rays from PC they were not sure if I would need surgery (yay!!!). Dr Matich and the nurse did an amazing job setting my wrist. My two options were 1. cast it, watch it very closely to make sure the medial part of my radius, the part they are worried about, doesn't move. He would follow me a lot more closely than if I had gone with option 2 because the bones could still move. If it doesn't move then I will have to keep the cast for a total of 3 months... EW I know! If it does move then I will have to have surgery, he says it's a 20% chance that it will move. Considering Dr Matich said she was 99% sure I would need surgery I am hoping the odds are with me again!  Option 2. was to have surgery. Dr Sullivan said he could place a plate and screws, which would not require as much following of the broken-ness because he would know that the bones would stay in place with the metal. He feels like sometimes doctors operate too quickly rather than letting things heal on their own. As far as he was concerned I was going to have to convince him that surgery would be best for me. I was tempted because it meant I would only have a cast for 6 weeks and could possibly go back to work earlier. But the cost of surgery and everything would probably not be worth the pay of going back to work.

so for the next two weeks (now one) I will be wearing a cast with my fingers crossed that my bones don't budge!!! Oh yeah my right hand has been cleared for typing!!! Great news huh :)

I see the doctor again on the 16th for more x-rays.

p.s. I got a water proof cast, yeah for showering without a plastic bag on my arm!

p.p.s the first two pictures are of my arm right after the splint came off, you can see the mark of the bandaid I had on my arm from where the lidocaine was injected as well as all the fun indentations from the splint. The third picture was with the waterproof understuff placed on my arm. The fourth is obvious, my cast, I just took it... hence the bad shot. There are only so many angles/positions that are comfortable for my arm. so getting a good shot wasn't easy. But yay for being able to bend my elbow again!