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Medical Forum / Diseases and Disorders / Arthritis / November 2007ortho appmt. left me pouting . . .
just back from my ortho appmt. the good news is that he thinks i'm a model patient and have done everything asked of me, recovered function, rom, strength and improved proprioception. the bad news is that i have to wear the ankle brace or the air cast again and back off on all the pt exercises, because the fracture reopened again. he said the bone didn't re-break, but the fracture just reopened--i'm not sure what the difference is. (i know i didn't reinjure it and the swelling is just about gone.) he said the fracture looked a lot better at 3 weeks healing than it does now. soooo, we have to do xrays again, after christmas. pouting . . . sigh . . . bummer . . . crumbs. poop! kate Oh Kate, I'm sorry. I hope it heals quickly this time and doesn't give you any trouble. Take it easy over all the holiday season. Maybe you need to do as I had to do last year. I didn't leave the house to do any holiday shopping; I didn't do any Christmas cards: I just didn't feel like doing anything! Gwen > just back from my ortho appmt. the good news is that he thinks i'm a > model [quoted text clipped - 13 lines] > > kate Oh Kate, I'm sorry. I hope it heals quickly this time and doesn't give you any trouble. Take it easy over all the holiday season. Maybe you need to do as I had to do last year. I didn't leave the house to do any holiday shopping; I didn't do any Christmas cards: I just didn't feel like doing anything! Gwen thanks, sweetie. i've been kind of in a brain numbed funk all afternoon and evening. kate > just back from my ortho appmt. the good news is that he thinks i'm a > model [quoted text clipped - 13 lines] > > kate > just back from my ortho appmt. the good news is that he thinks i'm a > model [quoted text clipped - 11 lines] > > pouting . . . sigh . . . bummer . . . crumbs. poop! Well, that just plain sucks. I hope he can do more for you than just have you wear the brace of air cast. That baby needs to be healing, not opening back up. Jo Oh, major bummer!!! I had no idea a fracture could even do that! I'm so sorry to hear this for you, my friend. You have had such a difficult year and one that has certainly been beyond frustration in many ways! I'm sitting back having a glass of wine and toasting that everything heals up once and for all! Care to prop that leg up and join me??? Hugs dear one, Donna . . . . 1.) ANGELS EXIST, but some times, since they don't all have wings, we call them FRIENDS...... 2.) Hey MJ, tit for tat, I got your back! 3.) J.K.M.A. > Oh, major bummer!!! I had no idea a fracture could even do that! > [quoted text clipped - 6 lines] > > Hugs dear one, I'm in. Bought a nice Merlot this morning. Jo > Oh, major bummer!!! I had no idea a fracture could even do that! > [quoted text clipped - 6 lines] > > Hugs dear one, I'm in. Bought a nice Merlot this morning. Jo wish i could be there with you both. kate Oh, major bummer!!! I had no idea a fracture could even do that! I'm so sorry to hear this for you, my friend. You have had such a difficult year and one that has certainly been beyond frustration in many ways! I'm sitting back having a glass of wine and toasting that everything heals up once and for all! Care to prop that leg up and join me??? Hugs dear one, Donna yeah, major bummer. your toast sounds like a winner to me. i hadn't even thought of wine. gonna go pour me one. thanks, sweetie. kate . . . . 1.) ANGELS EXIST, but some times, since they don't all have wings, we call them FRIENDS...... 2.) Hey MJ, tit for tat, I got your back! 3.) J.K.M.A. > just back from my ortho appmt. the good news is that he thinks i'm a > model [quoted text clipped - 11 lines] > > pouting . . . sigh . . . bummer . . . crumbs. poop! Well, that just plain sucks. I hope he can do more for you than just have you wear the brace of air cast. That baby needs to be healing, not opening back up. Jo that's all he said, as far as what he can do for me until the next set of xrays on dec. 27th. he said he's hoping to see some healing, but also that he knows i have a history of broken bone non-union. that's scared me when he said that--i know how many surgeries i had to undergo to heal the non-union, and even then, it was my pregnancy (which ain't gonna happen this time) that finally metabolically changed things enough to get it to heal. sigh . . . i feel like crap! kate >> just back from my ortho appmt. the good news is that he thinks i'm a >> model [quoted text clipped - 34 lines] > > kate I know you feel like crap. Or worse. (We've been watching "Its a Dirty Job" on TV with Ryan. They have been cleaning out garbage trucks) I'm guessing you won't be getting pregnant any time soon. But I thought we had come a long way in getting bones to heal over the last ten or so years. Sit and wait just sounds wrong, when that is pretty much what you've been doing and its going the wrong way. Can you tell I hate it when doctors tell me to wait and see? Can you get a second opinion somewhere. There has to be something you can DO. Jo >>> just back from my ortho appmt. the good news is that he thinks i'm a >>> model [quoted text clipped - 53 lines] > > Jo My thoughts too,,,, I thought there was some kind of ele. stimulation or 4-5 Indians dancing around the fire light under a new moon with Kate watching the goings on. Just kidding,,, I know it is just 2-3 Indians. Harv ... >> just back from my ortho appmt. the good news is that he thinks i'm a >> model [quoted text clipped - 34 lines] > > kate I know you feel like crap. Or worse. (We've been watching "Its a Dirty Job" on TV with Ryan. They have been cleaning out garbage trucks) I'm guessing you won't be getting pregnant any time soon. But I thought we had come a long way in getting bones to heal over the last ten or so years. Sit and wait just sounds wrong, when that is pretty much what you've been doing and its going the wrong way. Can you tell I hate it when doctors tell me to wait and see? Can you get a second opinion somewhere. There has to be something you can DO. Jo oh, i forgot. ortho also told me to add tums for additional calcium to the calcium i already take. there's negligible, almost no pain in the broken leg site. so, it's not really a situation where this broken bone hinders much of anything. i feel kinda numb about it, almost like it isn't real. doesn't seem like whether it heals or not will make a difference. my hips, lower spine and knee discomfort lately do far more hindering than the broken bone. and that's sooo hard for me to believe, let alone accept. now, when i go shopping, by the time i'm halfway through shopping at only the second store, i start wondering and worrying if i'm going to make it back out to the parking lot; and i have to decide whether or not to leave before i'm finished shopping at that store or push through it. i've never experienced that kind of thing to that degree before, except when i was on crutches recently. but i planned for the inconvenience of crutches and could work around it. can't seem to make myself plan for this, for some reason. or can't seem to anticipate it. it just feels so confusing to me, like i'm in another world or in somebody else's body. crumbs, i didn't mean to blather about it. but, maybe i'll feel better about it having done that. kate {{{{{{Kate}}}}} DeeTee > ... >>> just back from my ortho appmt. the good news is that he thinks i'm a [quoted text clipped - 82 lines] > > kate <clip> can't seem to make myself plan for this, for some > reason. or can't seem to anticipate it. it just feels so confusing to > me, [quoted text clipped - 4 lines] > > kate Didn't you know that is our second name? The blather listeners! LOL. That's what we are here for. I just got through blathering to you and here I hear about all this trouble. (((((((((((((((((((kate))))))))))))))))))))  SignatureNavy Take out the FISH to email me.> {{{{{Kate}}}}} DeeTee > just back from my ortho appmt. the good news is that he thinks i'm a > model [quoted text clipped - 13 lines] > > kate {{{{{Kate}}}}} DeeTee thanks for the hugs, sweetie. kate > just back from my ortho appmt. the good news is that he thinks i'm a > model [quoted text clipped - 13 lines] > > kate I'm not sure how that happens either, but here's a BIG HUG! Get some crazy glue and squeeze it in there to fix it :))) Carole > just back from my ortho appmt. the good news is that he thinks i'm a model > patient and have done everything asked of me, recovered function, rom, [quoted text clipped - 11 lines] > > kate I'm not sure how that happens either, but here's a BIG HUG! Get some crazy glue and squeeze it in there to fix it :))) Carole LOL! i tried to get my ortho to do that with my femoral non-union back in the '70s. from what a nurse told me, it sounds like the strengthened muscles and tendons did it, before the fracture site was ready for stronger ligaments. sounds like they overpowered the incomplete healing and caused it to separate. kate d'huit wrote: > just back from my ortho appmt. the good news is that he thinks i'm a > model [quoted text clipped - 13 lines] > > kate So sorry to hear that. Nothing is more irritating to us repeat problem havers, than to repeat again. Here are some gentle hugs (don't want to re-open anything else.) (((((((((((((((((((((kate))))))))))))))))))))) SignatureNavy Take out the FISH to email me. > just back from my ortho appmt. the good news is that he thinks i'm a > model [quoted text clipped - 13 lines] > > kate So sorry to hear that. Nothing is more irritating to us repeat problem havers, than to repeat again. Here are some gentle hugs (don't want to re-open anything else.) (((((((((((((((((((((kate))))))))))))))))))))) thanks, sweetie. kate SignatureNavy Take out the FISH to email me. > just back from my ortho appmt. the good news is that he thinks i'm a > model [quoted text clipped - 13 lines] > > kate Kate, Glad about some of the stuff in your first paragraph. ;-) Not glad though to hear about the fracture reopening. I hope there is something they can do for that and that all goes well. YOu take care. I know this all has to be really hard on you. We are thinking of you. Hang in there sweetie and don't let them push you to do what you can't do. SignatureLove and Hugs to all Jo the squirrely one I am nuts about you. > just back from my ortho appmt. the good news is that he thinks i'm a > model [quoted text clipped - 13 lines] > > kate Kate, Glad about some of the stuff in your first paragraph. ;-) Not glad though to hear about the fracture reopening. I hope there is something they can do for that and that all goes well. YOu take care. I know this all has to be really hard on you. We are thinking of you. Hang in there sweetie and don't let them push you to do what you can't do. thanks, sj. yeah, that bit is mentally hard more than physically. i don't really like my mental/emotional state right now. kate SignatureLove and Hugs to all Jo the squirrely one I am nuts about you. > just back from my ortho appmt. the good news is that he thinks i'm a > model [quoted text clipped - 13 lines] > > kate (((((((((((((((((((((((((kate))))))))))))))))))))) SignatureNann remove the Gator cheer to email me Simply the thing I am shall make me live --- William Shakespeare (((((((((((((((((((((((((kate))))))))))))))))))))) SignatureNann thanks, hon. kate remove the Gator cheer to email me Simply the thing I am shall make me live --- William Shakespeare > just back from my ortho appmt. the good news is that he thinks i'm a model > patient and have done everything asked of me, recovered function, rom, [quoted text clipped - 11 lines] > > kate oh Kate that sounds terrible. What does next weekend look like for you? We could come get you and bring you up to our place for dinner (or lunch) and take you home after. Whaddya think? We'd both love to see you. Aim (same user name as before but I'm on gmail now. Update your address book...) |
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