Jewells of Thought

Wow! So a lot has happened since the day before my surgery just five long months ago. I thought I would be posting in the interim but things were much more different and difficult for this 3rd surgery dealing with my long ulna bone in my left arm. This was not quite expected, because believe me stories I wanted to share happened nearly every day.

That was part of the problem too many stories and too little time to think them out and type one handed. My hand needed to be propped up in the living room not in my bedroom. So early on I just gave up on trying to blog. I did give updates on Facebook only to talk into the phone and have to go back and use my right hand to redo all the typos and changes necessary for someone to understand what I had just spoken into the phone. Yeah I still have a love-hate relationship with that phone feature.

Those updates were somewhat brief and not very often because they would still seem like minutes to read when I got ready to post them with photos. Of course photos could speak volumes for me and I included them as much as possible.

Honestly I thought I was done blogging and writing; period. There were times I thought I really needed to share this but the time and energy just wasn’t there for me. This was a challenging surgery for me more than I had counted on. Plus today is exactly 5 months since the day before surgery meaning I can as of tomorrow begin the process for my last surgery.

For about maybe two weeks my arm has already been showing signs of the metal being ready to come out. It was faint at first and was somewhat lost on me because of the weather. Due to the other surgeries I know what to look for and I am also a bit paranoid. Still it took me two weeks to figure it out, but I have not started a new job to put myself into a similar setting where I had a tiny fracture two months after the hardware had been removed from my right arm. This pain was something I have been paranoid from having to deal with a second time. I had to wear that brace even longer while training for a job that was pretty hands on when I couldn’t use one of my arms.

I had forgotten how good typing felt, but I have had to deal with tendonitis this go round because for the first time I went straight back to my hobbies. I began to slowly cross-stitch within a few weeks maybe about a month after surgery to help limber my fingers, besides my jigsaw puzzles I was working on within 3 days of surgery.

I won’t get too much into these details now because I think I will be sharing them soon when my arm isn’t aching again. I meet with my surgeon next month she had already dismissed me from the last surgery saying it will be in my court so say when I wanted to start the ball moving on this last surgery to remove the screws and plate from my left arm.

*The photo above is an old one from my right arm.