Steve (sread)

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Cheers

Hope your wrist is on the mend dmwnc1, very painful I imagine.

OK Cunard Fan, what did you get? You seem excited? Me? well nothing, but I did update my ancient 2000 Berlitz Guide the other day, so will dip in this afternoon and did buy [myself!] a couple of other shippy books, nothing that exciting though. Curious when browsing the local Borders the other day, that unusually there were some 20 books in the ship section, the normal bunch of Titanic books, but also 2 most unusuals.. Bruce Peter's Cruise: Identity, Design and Culture, and Philip Dawson's The Liner; did not expect to see such books on the shelf at all.

Best wishes for smooth sailing next year.

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Originally posted by PamM:
Hope your wrist is on the mend dmwnc1, very painful I imagine.Pam

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Originally posted by Ernst:
dmwnc1 - I hope you get well soon.

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THANKS! The severity of the fracture required a specialist. The radius bone where it meets the wrist snapped at the neck and then impacted itself over the top of the carpal bones that make up the wrist. In order to realign them they had to stick a 3" needle into my wrist down to the bones themseves and slowly inject a large amount of numbing medication. The needle hurt so bad i was screaming and crying uncontrollably for several minutes. Everybody in the ER thought i was being murdered. They put my thumb in a chinese traction device, bent my elbow 90 degrees and with me lying flat hung weights from my biceps to slowly force the radius and tendons back into place. The rest of the head of the radius above the horizontal fracture, cracked vertically into 3 peices. The surgery required a plate, several screws and pins.

I should be in a cast until then end of January. Shame it happened to the hand I write with!

I had to cancel my Christmas plans and stay home alone with the cat, TV and a can of soup.

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Originally posted by dmwnc1:
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I had to cancel my Christmas plans and stay home alone with the cat, TV and a can of soup.
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I had a kidney stone earlier this year. It was the most painful thing I've ever gone through. The pain was so bad I was throwing up and almost passed out. My partner rushed me to the emergency room and they put me on a morphine drip. The pain was instantly gone and I almost fell over when I stood up! It's the first time I've been to a hospital since I was a baby and had my tonsils out so I am not complaining. I think I've been lucky, but I also hope I never go through it again. Not likely as once you have had one, usually there is another. At least it means I have very healthy and productive kidneys, or so my Urologist tells me.

Best of luck again for a full recovery!

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Originally posted by Ernst:
...and CT. If we can cheer you up this whole forum actually could make sense.

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LOL!!! Verrrrrry funny! Cute. Got a much needed laugh from that one....THANKS!

Pam i didn't really get many ship things today. I did get some though. I got..

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Originally posted by eroller:
Yikes, this sounds incredibly painful and unfortunate. I wish you the best for a full and speedy recovery. Ernie

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Originally posted by dmwnc1:

My post surgery follow-up was today. They unwrapped my arm and I got to see it for the first time. What a mess it is, very bruised & quite blackened with 10 stitches racing down my wrist. They x-ray'ed it also and I got to see the plate and 10 screws they put in my wrist and forearm. The plate is spatula shaped with a wide delta/triangular shaped head that covers the top of the radius bone and runs for about 3-4" down the wrist. The fracture and healing process look good for 2 weeks post surgery, according to the doctor, but one of the screws is off place and has the possibility of rubbing against and damaging the wrist cartilage between the radius and metacarpal bones. I have to go under the knife (and put to sleep) again, and the 2nd surgery is scheduled for Monday Jan. 14th. They plan on cutting through the current incision about 1-2" to remove the screw and not replace it as there are 2 other screws in close proximity holding that part of the bone togther. They removed the stitches and re-splint my wrist until surgery. NOT looking forward to another surgery, but the 2 orthopedic doctors I saw today promised it was nothing in magnitude to what I have already gone through. Sure... ;-)

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