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Friday, February 28, 2003
Claire came with me to the physical therapist place so I could get my arm measured to make sure I wasnt going backwards or developing scar tissue.
I told claire in advance that the secretary only has one arm.
Claire starts telling the secretary about how it happened:
'...and then when we got to the hospital, they said they had to cut off her arm and asked if I could help, and so we cut off her arm and then you could see...'
she meant to say '.... cut off her shirt' ¶ 7:48 AM 0 comments
I told claire in advance that the secretary only has one arm.
Claire starts telling the secretary about how it happened:
'...and then when we got to the hospital, they said they had to cut off her arm and asked if I could help, and so we cut off her arm and then you could see...'
she meant to say '.... cut off her shirt' ¶ 7:48 AM 0 comments
Because my insurance companie refuse to pay for my physical therapy I can only afford to go once a week and so my therapist said it will be fine but I have to do exercises five times a day.
I went to therapy yesturday after a week of no therapy and the therapist was really impressed at my progress. She said I am a model patient.
Dayle's Home Exercise Plan
Do the following FIVE times a day:
1. Bend and straighten elbow unassisted as far as possible (20 times)
2. Point fingers toward the ground with elbow at 90deg and then use right hand to stretch. (3 times for 30secs)
3. Point fingers toward the ground with palm facing upwards and use right hand to stretch. (3 times for 30secs)
4. With forearm on table and, roll arm to palm up then palm down (20 times)
5. Stretch elbow into flexian and extension with assistance from right arm. Push until arm will not move with force then push back on right arm for 6 seconds. (10 times each direction)
6. Ice twice a day for 20 minutes
This ocupies me for a long time each day. Five times a day means 9am 12pm 3pm 6pm and 9pm.
However, due to my rigorous exercise plan my arm gets so sore at night it aches and I cant sleep. I took 10 painkillers the other night and then I felt sick. So last night I just got drunk, it was a good solution to all the problems. I think drinking alcohol is preferable to painkillers?
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I went to therapy yesturday after a week of no therapy and the therapist was really impressed at my progress. She said I am a model patient.
Dayle's Home Exercise Plan
Do the following FIVE times a day:
1. Bend and straighten elbow unassisted as far as possible (20 times)
2. Point fingers toward the ground with elbow at 90deg and then use right hand to stretch. (3 times for 30secs)
3. Point fingers toward the ground with palm facing upwards and use right hand to stretch. (3 times for 30secs)
4. With forearm on table and, roll arm to palm up then palm down (20 times)
5. Stretch elbow into flexian and extension with assistance from right arm. Push until arm will not move with force then push back on right arm for 6 seconds. (10 times each direction)
6. Ice twice a day for 20 minutes
This ocupies me for a long time each day. Five times a day means 9am 12pm 3pm 6pm and 9pm.
However, due to my rigorous exercise plan my arm gets so sore at night it aches and I cant sleep. I took 10 painkillers the other night and then I felt sick. So last night I just got drunk, it was a good solution to all the problems. I think drinking alcohol is preferable to painkillers?
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Wednesday, February 12, 2003
no time to add blog, network problems here, I hate the it department, they are useless, damn computer nerds.
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Well, I guess Ill update now. Good updates from simon and maja, also jeem has been good.
So I've had the chicken wing for one week. ¶ 5:12 AM 0 comments
So I've had the chicken wing for one week. ¶ 5:12 AM 0 comments
Friday, February 07, 2003
After typing so much yesturday my hand all swelled up. My gloves dont fit so I have to wear a sock on it. The novelty of a broken arm has worn off.
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Thursday, February 06, 2003
Wednesday
Currently typing with one arm in a cast propped on a pillow, but my fingers work so that is good.
Sunday
Went to work as usual, finished everything by 1130 decided to go on a ski break. Claire and I headed out, did about four runs and decided to head back. On an easy run, I started to go a little fast... caught my front edge.... fell backwards.... hit my elbow... heard it go crack really loudly.
Started screaming that I was hurt and all these people stopped and were asking if i was ok. Claire had to take her board off and run back up the hill.
Luckily for me, Woolly, a person in a giant wooly mammoth costume, was skiing past when it happened and he radioed ski patrol to come get me. All I could see was a big giant elephant looking down on me and people coming up and asking whether they could have their photo taken with woolly. It was very surreal.
Ski patrol arrived and tried to lift my arm to put it in a makeshift splint. They picked it up and it was all floppy. Then they put me on a sled and zipped me up in a big bag and skied me down to the bottom. It was scary.
The ambulance was waiting and Claire rode down and came in the ambulance too. I didnt cry but I was breathing like you see women who are in labour breath. They wouldnt give me any morphine cause they said my blood pressure was too low. I begged and they eventually gave me 10ml which didn't do much really.
Got to the hospital and they were heaps nice to me. They cut my clothes off and looked at my arm and asked if i needed more pain relief. Yey, they gave me drugs every 15 mins from then on.
I looked at my arm and it was like the bottom half didnt match up with the top half. Claire kept telling me it looked fine.
Had x-rays taken which ill post later. Then went straight to surgery. They operated for about 3hrs. They put lots of metal in there. I am a bionic woman now.
When I got out of theatre i woke up straight away and felt fine. My boss was standing there waiting and when I got to my room there were about 6 people all standing round waiting with chocolates and games and stuff. Pretty nice, I've gotten alot of attention since the breakage. However, my face was all swollen up for some reason and it looked like when I had my wisdom teeth out. Claire took photos, Ill post them later too.
Monday
My nurses were really nice, I had Terry, Sherry and Mary-Jane. For dinner I had cajun prawn cesear salad and for breakfast I had cornflakes, yoghurt, a bannana, scrambled eggs and toasted sour dough, coffee and orange juice. In the middle of the night I woke up and the doctor was stroking my hand to see if it had feeling. Very weird, it was Dr Perry taking over from Dr Freeman cause Dr Freeman had to fly to san diago for an emergency.
Nurse tried to give me a blood test in the middle of the night but luckily I woke up cause she had the wrong room.
My drip was put right at my elbow joint cause apparently the paramedics did it wrong. So whenever i ate, it beeped cause I was bending it and stopping the flow. The nurse came in ans said I should eat with my other arm..... derrrr... thats the broken one.
Dr Perry came in the morning to talk to me about the future. He said it will take 4 months to heal and i have to have a lot of therapy. He said I probably wont be able to straighten it fully ever again but I will have enough movement to reach my mouth and my butt (he did actions to demonstrate) and that is the most important thing.
I have got a half cast and a lot of bandages at the moment. It looks like a chicken wing and I cant fit my arm in any clothes. It's very heavy. I think it comes off on monday and they put a regular cast on. Well, at least I hope. I cant do my hair or open my painkillers. ¶ 5:46 AM 0 comments
Currently typing with one arm in a cast propped on a pillow, but my fingers work so that is good.
Sunday
Went to work as usual, finished everything by 1130 decided to go on a ski break. Claire and I headed out, did about four runs and decided to head back. On an easy run, I started to go a little fast... caught my front edge.... fell backwards.... hit my elbow... heard it go crack really loudly.
Started screaming that I was hurt and all these people stopped and were asking if i was ok. Claire had to take her board off and run back up the hill.
Luckily for me, Woolly, a person in a giant wooly mammoth costume, was skiing past when it happened and he radioed ski patrol to come get me. All I could see was a big giant elephant looking down on me and people coming up and asking whether they could have their photo taken with woolly. It was very surreal.
Ski patrol arrived and tried to lift my arm to put it in a makeshift splint. They picked it up and it was all floppy. Then they put me on a sled and zipped me up in a big bag and skied me down to the bottom. It was scary.
The ambulance was waiting and Claire rode down and came in the ambulance too. I didnt cry but I was breathing like you see women who are in labour breath. They wouldnt give me any morphine cause they said my blood pressure was too low. I begged and they eventually gave me 10ml which didn't do much really.
Got to the hospital and they were heaps nice to me. They cut my clothes off and looked at my arm and asked if i needed more pain relief. Yey, they gave me drugs every 15 mins from then on.
I looked at my arm and it was like the bottom half didnt match up with the top half. Claire kept telling me it looked fine.
Had x-rays taken which ill post later. Then went straight to surgery. They operated for about 3hrs. They put lots of metal in there. I am a bionic woman now.
When I got out of theatre i woke up straight away and felt fine. My boss was standing there waiting and when I got to my room there were about 6 people all standing round waiting with chocolates and games and stuff. Pretty nice, I've gotten alot of attention since the breakage. However, my face was all swollen up for some reason and it looked like when I had my wisdom teeth out. Claire took photos, Ill post them later too.
Monday
My nurses were really nice, I had Terry, Sherry and Mary-Jane. For dinner I had cajun prawn cesear salad and for breakfast I had cornflakes, yoghurt, a bannana, scrambled eggs and toasted sour dough, coffee and orange juice. In the middle of the night I woke up and the doctor was stroking my hand to see if it had feeling. Very weird, it was Dr Perry taking over from Dr Freeman cause Dr Freeman had to fly to san diago for an emergency.
Nurse tried to give me a blood test in the middle of the night but luckily I woke up cause she had the wrong room.
My drip was put right at my elbow joint cause apparently the paramedics did it wrong. So whenever i ate, it beeped cause I was bending it and stopping the flow. The nurse came in ans said I should eat with my other arm..... derrrr... thats the broken one.
Dr Perry came in the morning to talk to me about the future. He said it will take 4 months to heal and i have to have a lot of therapy. He said I probably wont be able to straighten it fully ever again but I will have enough movement to reach my mouth and my butt (he did actions to demonstrate) and that is the most important thing.
I have got a half cast and a lot of bandages at the moment. It looks like a chicken wing and I cant fit my arm in any clothes. It's very heavy. I think it comes off on monday and they put a regular cast on. Well, at least I hope. I cant do my hair or open my painkillers. ¶ 5:46 AM 0 comments
Saturday
Went riding in the morning. Forgot how for the first run after skiing yesturday. Then did some good runs, went really fast, stacked it on the flat bits. Went to work.
This disgusting instructor who has a speech impediment that makes him spit alot and who lives out of his car and doesn't shower was hanging around my office. He wouldnt leave and he smelt so I went into my friend ali's office and shut the door. He left after about 10 mins.
The other instructors think it's really funny and keep encouraging him. His name is Dirk and everyone calls him jerk.
One time he came into the office and had snot running from his nose to his mouth. Ali nearly vomitted.
¶ 5:13 AM 0 comments
Went riding in the morning. Forgot how for the first run after skiing yesturday. Then did some good runs, went really fast, stacked it on the flat bits. Went to work.
This disgusting instructor who has a speech impediment that makes him spit alot and who lives out of his car and doesn't shower was hanging around my office. He wouldnt leave and he smelt so I went into my friend ali's office and shut the door. He left after about 10 mins.
The other instructors think it's really funny and keep encouraging him. His name is Dirk and everyone calls him jerk.
One time he came into the office and had snot running from his nose to his mouth. Ali nearly vomitted.
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Friday
Went skiiing and got to see more of the mountain than ever b4. Got ski's from the demo shop for free, sic skii's and sick boots. Went to the very top of mammoth and skied down. Skiied over to the next lodge too. Im still better on skis than on board but can board steeper runs. ¶ 5:05 AM 0 comments
Went skiiing and got to see more of the mountain than ever b4. Got ski's from the demo shop for free, sic skii's and sick boots. Went to the very top of mammoth and skied down. Skiied over to the next lodge too. Im still better on skis than on board but can board steeper runs. ¶ 5:05 AM 0 comments
