Dorcas Iris-TWR one week on. I'M back!

biddybeth

Hi Iris,

I do hope you are feeling so much better. I know after a big op you feel as if you are never going to recover, but you will get there, believe me. We scots are a tough lot, just make sure you have your porridge daily, and rest these hands. I am thinking of you. Love, Beth

skezier

Hi Iris,

I was late flying up, I am sorry.... Had a bit of a long day But we got another foal Your n 'auntie' again

Hope today dawns with less pain and more movement for you and I know your back to the hospital for a check and plaster change and the bus is ready for us to com up and get in your pocket.

Take care flower and I am sorry I am absolutely shattered.... but he is lovely

Hugs, a bowl of healing draft and the greens are a bit sheep nibbles Love Cris xxxx

speedalong

Hi Iris,

reading Cris's post - you have an appointment today - so enjoy the outing!! Hope the splint making isn't too painful.

Take care,

Speedy

PS as Cris needs to sleep and I'm grounded (S's loan talking device could arrive anytime between 9 and 5 ...and I have to be here to receive it,) could you get me some bread, milk, fresh fruit and paracetomol on route ... ta!!

dreamdaisy

Hello dorcas, hope you are feeling brighter today. Good luck at the hospital. DD

marion1952

H Iris

Good luck for today.

Hi Cris

Another foal - wonderful! Is this a he or a she? Does this mean there is just one more to make an appearance??

Best wishes

Marion

skezier

Hi All,

Sorry i confused you all... the appointment is tomorrow so we all must get on the bus and into her pockets.... I hope she has big pockets xx

Hi ,

Sending love, hopes, green, apples, carrots, chew sticks and cus its a special day (well foals are special eh?!) some turnip (neeps ) as well.

I so hope it soon becomes less painful and flower it will soon. Plaster change will help as the weight sort of works against your arm. Thinking of you and ta for the barley ((((( ))))) Cris xxx

skezier

marion1952 wrote:

H Iris

Good luck for today.

Hi Cris

Another foal - wonderful! Is this a he or a she? Does this mean there is just one more to make an appearance??

Best wishes

Marion

Hi Marion,

I am sorry I was so tired (still am actually ) I didn't see this.

He is a little premature and it was a long night as he had problems getting up... in the end I lifted him as he had to drink. He is a lot stronger tonight but still a bit behind, in a week he will be fine.

He's skewbald and be honest even prem he is big. Thankfully he is the last one but there will be 5 next year I can sleep tonight as I am shattered

Hope your ok? Cris x

Hi Iris,

Just topping up your hugs, drafts and I will fly up tomorrow.... oh I wont need to as the bus is on its way and we are all coming with you. Have big pockets else we will be squashed

Good luck Flower and will be thinking of you. ((((( ))))) xxx

dreamdaisy

Good morning, dorcas, how goes it? Best wishes for today's appointment, I sincerely hope it is all settling down for you. DD

speedalong

Ok, I shall get this right today - hope appointment goes well and you enjoy your outing!!

Speedy

angel1

Thinking of you today HA, with much love.........Ange.

frogmorton

Crossing my toes for you for todays appointment.


LOts of love Toni

PS your pockets are full so will cling on to your sleeve I think

skezier

Hi Iris,

I really hope it went well today Flower. Will fly up later and have got out your pocket just to wish you so much luck and sending so many hopes. ((((( ))))) xxx

dorcas

Hi everyone and thanks for all the kind thoughts, advice, hugs, good wishes, carrots, greens and honey sticks and of course your company in out patients.

Hope you've had a whip round to pay for illegally parking the red bus in the ambulance bay at the Western & Gartnavel Hospitals... just who was driving??!!!!

My appointment today went really well folks

Got the heavy PoP cast off and stitches out (didn't look at that bit as advised! thanks).
Swelling gone, hand and arm looking battered and bruised still but not green or dead (zombie) looking ! wound not quite closed so steri strips applied and dry dressing.

Surgeon delighted with progress and x rays looking good. :P

Then came the hard bit :shock: :shock: First the surgeon moved my poor wee wrist up and down (just a little bit and gently too) then asked me :shock: to turn it over and as far as I could....supination that's called. oooyaaa!!!!!!! :roll: I could think of another word for it.!
As you would expect (dread) Physio wasn't as gentle when he took over.....help!

I did get a gold star for being able to bend all fingers and make a fist...even the physio was impressed.
(I had the advantage of knowing how important that was after the fusion on the other hand last year..so had been exercising the fingers from day one) clever old me!...

There was a lot of discussion between surgeon and physio about the op, what had been done and exactly what angle the new splint should be, and what degrees of movements/ exercises were to be carried out for the next 5 weeks, until I return to see him.

Physio later told me that my surgeon had not only transferred tendons from one side of the hand to the other but 'plaited' them to produce a very strong support for the ulnar side of the hand (ulna head removed during op as well as the TWR).

Surgeon sent me to have photos taken too...so there's to be a record of it all.

Had new tailor made splint made ...light weight and removable for physio... agghhh!! ouch! that was a painful process having that moulded! (I am a big baby you all know :oops: )

12 weeks from now, surgeon said, with hand therapy and determination the wrist will be 'all that it's going to be'. He does not expect me to ever have full movement (arther's taken care of that) but it will be pretty useful and pain free. meantime I've not to overdo the exercises, not lift and definitely not fall on it or it will break.

THAT'S good enough for me..............................and I am so delighted!

thanks everyone for all your support and Cris for her wonderful flying back and fore.......I will post occasionally but not as much as I would like to so as to rest the hard worked left fused wrist but had to share my good news today!.



Iris xxxxx also known as H/A

dreamdaisy

I am so pleased! That sounds really, really good, and it is lovely, LOVELY to hear from you again. Rest now, be sensible with the exercises etc and hear from you again soon. DD

lindalegs

Well done Iris for the mega update. That was a really interesting read, especially regarding the ulna and plaited tendons - d'you suppose your surgeon is a frustrated hairdresser :shock: :?

You rest you wrist now and get back in your run ...you have a mountain to food to get through before you're allowed back

Thanks again,

Luv Legs

Wonkylegs

great news Iris

well done you for coping so well with the physio .

hope all continues to go well for you.

hugs
WOnky xxx

speedalong

Hi Iris, great to hear an update.

Sounds like an intense time at the hospital - wow!!

How novel - surgeon and physio working together!!

Make sure you dose up well/budget your painkillers for physio sessions to get you through .. you have your work cut out - but sounds like it will be SO worth it.

My rubbishy old left THR leg is tired and aching at the mo - supporting the new FAB hip ... so I sympathise with your poor fused wrist doing the jobs of two hands.

Take care balancing rest and exercise,

Lovely to hear from you,

Speedy

marion1952

Hello Iris

Great to hear from you.. gosh - you have had a very clever operation!!

Take it easy and hope your pain is under control.. just think of all those Christmas cards you will be able to write in 5 months time!!


Marion x

skezier

Hi Iris,

So glad it going well and he was pleased Also glad you got that heavy old cast off but they are best initially.

So will you be able to turn your hand palm up? I am both fascinating and going down that rod as you know and just wondered.

Will be better at the flying u in the ,morning and sorry I have been a bit erratic but this foaling was the longest and most lack of sleep for a very long time :roll: He is getting better each day though

You have a good night and do you think your being over feed green? I am leaving you a bowl of special healing draft... I dd sip some sorry Take good care of your self flower and I will knock on your window after the pain clinic. Love and tons of ((((( ))))) Cris xxx

dorcas

Hi DD I am trying to be good....am tap tapping with a gadget my son made for me which I can hold with thumb and two fingers to spread the load and take the pressure off the one typing finger. clever or what? (him not me of course!)

Ive been watching your threads so know you're going thro mill just now DD. take care to rest and am sharing my honey sticks with you to help you feel better. x

Hi Legs I'm as fat as butter with all this lavish guinea food so will have to turn the wheel a million times to burn it off!

glad you found update interesting....you may be right about the surgeon ....I'll ask if he did some of his training at hairdressing school , shall I?
hope your hands aren't too painful just now? xx

Hi Wonky :!: the physio's bound to be painful eh :roll: but at least I now know what to expect. good thing is that I've been referred back to the specialist hand therapist at my local hospital and she is to do the physio which is great as I know her well and more importantly..she knows me well.
I expect to get a call today to get started as surgeon/ physio marked the card 'urgent'. gulp!
how are you doing?

Hi speedy you are so right about dosing up before physio :shock: I was murdered with pain after yesterday's episode and was like a junkie looking for a fix by the time I got home.
mind you I was 4hrs in hospital yesterday ...sent from one hospital where I saw surgeon and physio..to their sister hospital for Orthotics to measure and make the splint so meds had well worn off :!: :roll:

sorry to hear your left THR troubling you :roll: is it likely to need replacing did they say?

Hi marion clever op and very clever surgeon too :!: so I have high hopes of success.....over to me now to make the best of the rehab.
Xmas cards! omg....what a thought! but anyway I use a well advertised internet card company so they go direct to my saved family/ friends 'list'....no writing for me involved
also do all birthdays etc same way..it is brilliant!

how's your hip doing?

Hi Cris...me old feathered friend
good luck at the pain clinic this morn hope it eases the pain through those trigger points xxxxx

remember...YOU need to rest up...so no flying today :!:

tuck in to those healing foods...and have another nip o brandy before you go...medicinal of course

glad bracken is getting stronger.... please take care Cris not to exhaust yourself. :roll: :roll:

(((((((hugs))))))) coming right back at ya!

oh....and yes! I WILL be able to turn my hand palm up! may be not completely over but was able yesterday to turn it (shakily) more than half way already.... and that's only 2 weeks post op. so encouraging! as couldn't do that before the op; so take heart flower...x

love to all....Will look in later but off now to my morphine haze...

Irisxxxx

speedalong

Wow, Iris that was a mega-post!! Clever son to design you a gadget ... he should have a go at marketing it!!

Sounds like your wrist holds great promise. Yesterday was quite an ordeal with two hospitals ... but good news you will be having physio from now on with a hand specialist who you know and trust.

The shaking you describe as you turned your hand over - is like my hip in the early days post-op.

No my left THR doesn't need revising yet (thank goodness) the muscles are just struggling with the extra workload ... it wasn't a great result and since the op, has always been my second best leg!Good job new hip is going to come up trumps.

Keep resting ...take care,

Speedy

dreamdaisy

Thank you for the honey sticks - yum yum! - and your kind thoughts, they are much appreciated. Us PA girls have to stick together! Have returned from meth stabbing and feel lousy due to that and another poor night. Ho hum, c'est la vie. You get plenty of rest, nothing wrong with morphine-induced pink fluffy clouds. Enjoy! YOur Diabolic Damsel.

skezier

Hi Iris the

Well done for turning it half way, I can do that with one of mine now but the pain clinic doc says she thinks it's the elbows as well.... I must try and get some xrays I think.....

Leaving you some hopes, hugs and chew sticks as well as fresh picked grass and dandelions and chick weed..... and just in case your bored of it all a cream cake

Hope you are resting now and a ((((( )))))) Cris who had 8 trigger points so feeling less sore xxx

barbara12

Hi Iris
I am so gald it went well for you, believe me you are not a wimp, I think you deserve ten gold stars for going through all that.
How lovely it will be to have a pain free wrist,hopefully you will have a good range of movement, well done you.
Love and hugs (((((()))))
Barbara xx

frogmorton

Oh Iris

That is wonderful news.

Now I think you have been a brave little soldier haven't you?


Well done - did they give you a certificate or a sticker for being good??

I think you have done amazingly well and I reckon you are no baby :shock:

So very good to haer from you.

No worries none of us ex[pects you back posting right left and centre.

Love

Toni xx

PS Thanks to our faithful pigeon for all her updates. Makes us all feel less stressed I think