Showing posts with label fracture. Show all posts
Showing posts with label fracture. Show all posts

Thursday, July 28, 2011

Ouch!

So     this is what happens when you go bowling with 8 little kids….

 You stick on the boards, on your 1st approach, you basically go flying through the air, foul, and land with all your weight (let’s say 120lbs -ahem) on your hand/wrist on the oil.  The result, being humiliated in front of a bowling alley FULL of people, not to mention all the little kids laughing because you fell. Sitting out 2 frames because the pain is more than you can bear…. Fighting back the tears and “getting back on the horse” and finishing the game with a 118. (I even bowled 3 strikes and 2 spares) Then after leaving heading to the ER to get xrays, to find out that you fractured your wrist in 2 places.  Now THIS

(a lovely splint)
Is my new best friend, awaiting casting by an Ortho specialist.  Oh the joys.  You don’t realize how much you NEED 2 hands until you don’t have the use of 1 of them.  About now I am aching for a nice long hot shower!
This couldn’t have come at a worse time,  But I have realized EVERYTHING happens for a reason…. Maybe my reason was so that I would SLOW DOWN!  It  definitely has done that.  Having to have my oldest help me get dressed (not fun by the way... I SHOULD be able to do that myself).  I have never been 1 to ask for help--- until now.  It is taking some getting used to, that is for sure!