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29 Aug 2011
officially two-elbowed again!
29 Aug 2011 11:59 pmI went back to the ER today, according to what I thought were the directions of the previous ER doctor, but then, his English was pretty bad, so I might be wrong. I already knew that the hairline fracture in my left elbow was healing quite well because of the fact that it hasn't been too painful.
A different doctor was impressed by the range of motion and strength I have back already in the wrist - I didn't actually tell him about the quantity of illicit typing I've done in the past three weeks via contorting myself into a variety of ridiculous positions to put my keyboard within a foot of my neck, but I think it's probably been good PT as the original doctor emphasized the importance of using the hand and fingers constantly while the elbow was immobilized. So I am now entirely sling-free, and have been told to bend my arm a lot, and that I should gradually regain the ability to straighten my arm all the way out, but probably not for at least two or three weeks. It is still a little tender at times, so I am probably going to be trying to be cautious about the amount of typing that I do at first, but right now I'm just deliriously happy to have the sling gone.
(I already went back through all my last 3 weeks' delicious bookmarks, looking for the ones I left partially or wholly untagged because I didn't want to type at the time. It wasn't even a whole 100 bookmarks, yet I feel like I've read the entirety of the Captain America/Ironman AND Thor/Loki fic out there in that time. :( Dammit, movies that are recently out or not out yet!)
A different doctor was impressed by the range of motion and strength I have back already in the wrist - I didn't actually tell him about the quantity of illicit typing I've done in the past three weeks via contorting myself into a variety of ridiculous positions to put my keyboard within a foot of my neck, but I think it's probably been good PT as the original doctor emphasized the importance of using the hand and fingers constantly while the elbow was immobilized. So I am now entirely sling-free, and have been told to bend my arm a lot, and that I should gradually regain the ability to straighten my arm all the way out, but probably not for at least two or three weeks. It is still a little tender at times, so I am probably going to be trying to be cautious about the amount of typing that I do at first, but right now I'm just deliriously happy to have the sling gone.
(I already went back through all my last 3 weeks' delicious bookmarks, looking for the ones I left partially or wholly untagged because I didn't want to type at the time. It wasn't even a whole 100 bookmarks, yet I feel like I've read the entirety of the Captain America/Ironman AND Thor/Loki fic out there in that time. :( Dammit, movies that are recently out or not out yet!)