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UPDATE 1.1.25 — HAPPY NEW YEAR! May 2025 be a cut above 2024, at least I’m hoping for that personally.
The surgeon was still happy with the progress Im making, and he gave me the go ahead to try and see if I can play a little guitar, but to also not push it. It is very painful still and I don’t have the strength in the hand or the fingers for certain chords or barre chords at all. I’m playing fairly simple songs that only have maybe three chords give or take it’s hard not to play a song though because most have barre chords in them.
I did have a big scare this past week on my flight home from the Carolinas. I was rushing to get to my gate and I went through the big passageway to where the gates were and there was a threshold that was raised slightly going through the opening and my toe caught, and I went flying and fell, and I fell on my left side, which is the wrist that was broken. My only concern at the time was getting on the airplane and not missing my flight because there were no more flights that day. As embarrassing as it was, they put me in a wheelchair and said that I should be requesting transport anytime. I’m at the airport from now on. The good thing about that is you get on the airplane a lot faster ha ha. They wanted me to see medical personnel before I left, but the plane was already late boarding and there were no other flights that day. I was coming home early on Christmas Eve and my only concern was getting on that airplane. When I was in the airplane, I realized that I had fallen on my left chest, and I must’ve gone down on my forearm. Somehow I think I was trying to protect my wrist and my left ankle were painful.
I ended up going to the emergency room on Christmas Dayto get x-rayed and just make sure that I hadn’t refractured anything in my leg or my arm or hand. The leg previously had a severe tibial plateau break about 10 years ago luckily they did not see any new fractures and so I thought things were fine. I went to the occupational therapist yesterday and she wants me to see the surgeon again, Monday just to let him know what happened and have him check the wrist himself. He’ll x-ray check things out himself. I’m just cringing at all the bills that I’m getting.
But the icing on the cake as I’m excited that I’ve been able to at least play a few songs. It’s difficult for me not to want to keep playing. I have to keep telling myself to back off because it is painful and I don’t wanna overdo it and set myself back, but he did say let life be my therapy. We’ll see how that works out.