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UPDATE 10.19.24. A day after the surgery, the surgeon wanted me to see a hand therapist. He wanted the cast removed ASAP due to swelling. I had to wait a day to go in because of a commitment so I went in yesterday and they took the cast off and said I was better off not having a cast on because of how swollen my fingers and hands were. They fitted me with a hard wrist brace with straps that I can undo and clean the incision sites and then redress it and put the wrist guard back on. There’s not much chance of the wrist moving because I have a plate on the top of it that holds the entire wrist straight while the break and dislocations fuse to the plate and screws under the wrist. It seems a little surreal to have a cast off a day or two after emergency major surgery or major surgeries because it was three surgeries done at the same time. I was told I had PTSD carpal tunnel syndrome from the fall and because of how tight the ER put the cast on my arm causing severe pain swelling purple blue fingers that turned like and numb. because of how tight the ER put the cast on my hand and my arm and fingers basically turned like numb and cold to the touch from lack a circulation. That was for five days after the accident that it was in that cast. II got nauseous when they took the cast off and I saw the extent of the incisions and stitches and staples and and a couple of huge ones that were much bigger than the regular staples and my daughter called him something I don’t know what they call them. Behometh comes to mind.. The pain is pretty extensive, and I’m on a synthetic medication, because I have allergy to the other option. Pain is worse at night and I have to keep it elevated while I sleep and that’s difficult because of course you switch positions
I am trying to do every single thing suggested, because I want to get back to playing guitar. I find myself reaching for it several times a day and realize it’s not possible yet and I say yet because I know I’m gonna get back to it.
My guitar teacher told me just sit at home relax have the guitar on my lap and do different patterns with my right hand I have essential tremors in my hand so finger style has always been difficult for me, but he said now is a great time just to do the patterns over and over and over and eventually he thinks my fingers will be trained to do the patterns and my fingers and hands won’t jerk or shake. I’m again hopeful for that. I always thought I was relegated to be just a rhythm guitarist but I’ve always wanted to learn finger style too so we’ll see!
Nothing much more to report fingers are still numb and won’t straighten all the way or bend/curve all the way to a fretting position but he says that it it’s too early to know exactly what’s gonna happen with the fingers in the hand especially because they had to move a couple of nerves that causes a lot of numbness many times and it can take weeks for a traumatize nerve to rebound back so I’m hopeful for that too. I will say that before surgery, my hand was stuck in a claw position. Good boy Long time since you’ve done that impress yeah no can I put thisI can now straighten the fingers probably 70-80% of the way. That simply amazes me.
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