Torture

Well its week two with a broken arm and its a BUMMER!!!

Saw the Drs last week, had an xray first then off to the orthopedic guy. Lots of head shaking and umming as he looked at the xray. Then said "Umm need to show this to the head guy."

Head guy comes in looks at the xrays shakes head, umms.

Okay here is the problem -
1 - you have two breaks
2 - if we operate there is no guarantee it will bend properly because of where the breaks are
3 - if we leave it in the cast there is a very good chance it will fuse that way

Solution -
Remove the cast.

Proceeded to remove cast. Now inflict pain on patient while smiling and nodding head.

Get said patient to straighten arm as much as possible --------- patient starts sweating.

Get patient to bend arm and rotate hand to palm face up ------- patient cannot turn hand very much and is now swearing under breath.

Smile at patient and say OK no cast keep in sling and everyday straighten arm and try and turn hand palm up and then palm down. Remind patient that her arm is broken in two places and not to lift anything. DUH - patient is in PAIN!!!

At this point patient is ready to see if she can break other arm by punching smiley doc in face.

Patient leaves snarling, sweating and with headache.

So now I am wandering the house occasionally trying to straighten, move my hand and curse all drs.

Out of Action ....... Again

Whoops I did it again!

No sewing, no driving, no cleaning (whoopee) for the next 6 weeks or so.

Fell yesterday and apart from embarrassing myself by lying flat on my face, I cut my knee, grazed the other, grazed my face and ..... broke my elbow/arm twice.

In half plaster for a week then back for xray to see if bones have moved - if they have will have to be operated on. Apparently where the breaks are is very awkward to pin or plate so the Spec is trying to avoid it. He also talked about removing bone and inserting titanium.

Boy when I do something I like to make sure it is to the best of my ability.


PS It is my left arm, I'm right handed but the plaster starts at my fingers and goes half way up to my shoulder so no hand sewing. Wasn't dizzy just plain clumsy, didn't see a long car stopper on the ground at the service station and tripped over it.

Look What I Can Do!

Yesterday I went to The Thimblelady, Liuxin Newman's applique class.

There were 6 of us in the class and we were all skeptical when she told us that by the end of the day we would be able to needleturn a tiny circle!

Guess what - here is my tiny circle needleturned - its 7mm wide! Liuxin told us we could go even smaller but not much more. I was so excited (we all were) that we did what we had considered at the start impossible. I certainly will be putting my new skills into action. Have to design a small wall hanging to showcase what I can do.

We learnt to make tiny lines only 1/8 inch wide, circles, arcs and points both convex and concave.

If you get the chance to go to one of her classes don't hesitate it was a great day - lots of learning and lots of laughs.

Pick Up

Had a guy try and pick me up the other day - was very flattered but boy was he ugly.

Now don't get me wrong I don't go on peoples looks (I'm no oil painting) but this guy was ugly in himself. He smelt and had a horrid attitude toward females. It got me wondering why on earth he would think I would do the things he suggested with him. Was I sending out the wrong signal or what? Actually I didn't think I was sending any.

He looked younger than me and I do love toy boys (who doesn't) my husband was younger than me, but this guy was so grimy and yuk.

So what sort of signals do we as women send out that attracts these types?