April 5, 2004

My Arm...

Arm update time... OK here it goes. Last time I went to the Dr. there was concern that the ulnar plate was bothering my tendons and such. That turned out to be a red herring. This means that the plate doesn't have to come out.

The wrist pain in my right arm is actually tendon damage. As it turns out I was SO jealous of Ken and his cortisone shots that I decided I needed my own. So today they shot my wrist full of pain meds and cortisone. This is supposed to clear out all of the scar tissue and allow the tendon that connects the radius and ulna together at the wrist to reform. If this course doesn't work then they will use surgery to fix it. So as you can imagine this is the preferred course of action.

I also have a slight bump on my middle finger on my right hand that will likely be sliced off in a drop-in surgery. Its a slight growth at the knuckle of my right middle finger that may or may not be related to my injury but should be removed either way. It will involve a scalpel and a stitch or two if it doesn't start to go away on its own.

All in all the news is pretty good. I broke the arm in August and as of April it is almost fully healed. For the first time I got to see the plates on an xray. The plates are screwed in every 2cm or so so there are a metric TON of screws in my arm.

Posted by pqbon at April 5, 2004 1:49 PM | TrackBack