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UPDATE 12.05.24
EXPECTATIONS VERSUS REALITY
Saw the surgeon for post op on my wrist today. I was very surprised to find out that there was a plate on the top of my wrist. The whole purpose of the second surgery was to remove the fixator plate. It went from my hand to the wrist. I couldn’t understand why I was in so much pain still.
They cut the cast off, took several x-rays, which is when the tech said you still have a plate on the top. My jaw hit the ground! After the stitches and staples were removed, I saw the surgeon. I was explaining how I’m still in a lot of pain across my fingers and the top of the hand outside of hand, inner part of thumb and on forearm, and I wasn’t aware they were putting another plate in my arm. And he said, they called my type of break a very unstable break, he says it’s one of the worst that I could have had. To help ensure that it’s being supported and being allowed to heal, they put the secondary fixater in just in the forearm, so it allows me to have wrist movement, but it stabilizes the forearm at the wrist.
So of course, my question was, when can I start playing guitar? I can’t do it currently because I can’t press the strings with my fingers from pain. So here’s the difference between a surgeon versus an occupational therapist who does physical therapy on you. He says, go ahead and start easing yourself back into it. Just don’t overdo it, and if there’s pain just stop, so I go across the hall to have my therapy and the therapist says she doesn’t want me moving my wrist at all for at least 2 more weeks, and they fitted me again in the wrist brace, which keeps my wrist straight and they actually tightened it down. So it’s more secure than even before. She said she doesn’t even want me to try playing the guitar for at least another 4-6 weeks. I nearly fell out of my chair 4-6 more weeks was not what I was expecting to hear at all.
I was so bummed, but there’s nothing I can really do.
Just pray that time goes by fast, because this has been the slowest three months, and Im so tired of the chronic pain. I was hoping to be back at it by the ti.e .y NC trip rolls ar o und 12.20– 12.28. I was planning on taking a guitar, but now I’ll just take my sketch pad, knowing that it will be 4 weeks at the beginning of January. >