Yesterday i had one of my follow-up appointments for my wrist. My soft/quarter cast was removed and i got my permanent/hard cast on.. the cool or gross or awesome thing about yesterday was getting to see the pins/stitches/etc of my surgery and i took a few pictures too!
the first picture is of my wrist right after they took off my soft cast and before they trimmed the edges of my stitch (i guess its one continuous stitch under the skin that will eventually dissolve) the pins (two) are sticking out of my hand and will be removed in 4 weeks when my cast is taken off. it was weird, odd and a little bit disgusting to see those sticking out of my hand- i guess it's one of those things where your body knows and realizes there shouldnt be things sticking out of the skin... okay that doesn't make sense like i want it to when i type it.. it's just disgusting and kind-of cool at the same time.. here are more pictures...
my hand looks really beat up and swollen in the picture on the left.. and there's another picture of my pins and some of the antibacterial gauze that was wrapped around the pins... that was removed and replaced when i got switched over to my hard cast.
one of my teammates told me if I didn't have my cast on I could use the pins to hang my keys... ouch and no thanks!
These last two pictures are of my cleaned up mess of a hand and of my hard cast.. when I was at the drs office I asked if they had a PURPLE cast they could put on me and they were boring and lame and said they only had white.. boooorrrrrrriiiiinnnngggg.. but that does allow for all sorts of colored sharpie markers to be used.. so that's a good thing! And my thumb is out so i might be able to try to attempt to paint my own nails.. but im sure it wouldn't turn out very well!
Hi there,how are you feeling? I didn't have surgery but broke my wrist and had a closed reduction and in a cast as well, I narrowly avoided surgery. Anyway I work for an orthopedic doctor and I would send you a color to give your doctor to use next time if you care that much only because white gets dirty,lol.
ReplyDeletehi amy! thanks for the comment!! i would have loved a purple cast! and I mean honestly, who only has ONE color of casting material(?). .. pretty lame if i do say so myself! what does closed reduction mean??
ReplyDeleteHey and you are very welcome! HAHA,so unjust! I hope you got a cast cover for the shower though and it means under xray he was able to put my bone back into place and if it stays that way then I won't need surgery!
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