Fast and short

[unixronin]

I'm home and catching up on Stuff.  We were persuaded, instead of me coming straight home after surgery, to send me to a rehab hospital for five to six days of intensive rehab.  Unfortunately nobody actually got an agreement with the rehab hospital on the 5-6 days part.  They were expecting to keep me 10-14 days, but I met all the rehab goals in four, then cymrullewes came and sprung me last night.

Further updates and more details will be behind the medical filter.  If you're not on it and you want to be, ask.

Comments

[nephthys510.livejournal.com]

welcome home! heal and rehab fast!

[smandal.livejournal.com]

Seconded.

[wookiee71.livejournal.com]

If I'm not on it, include me. Welcome and hopes for speedy return to regular activities.

[unixronin.livejournal.com]

Done.

[hugh-mannity.livejournal.com]

Welcome home. By far the best place to recover, unless you need specialised heavy equipment :D

[perspicuity.livejournal.com]

medical me baby.

also, if you have the phone #s of cute nurses, their bios, webpages, etc, you let me know ;)

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[unixronin.livejournal.com]

Heh :) There were some, one of whom offered to distract the guards while cymrullewes sprung me, but I have no contacts to pass you.


Added.

[brownkitty.livejournal.com]

I don't remember whether I'm on it or not.

[unixronin.livejournal.com]

You are already on it, yes.

[brownkitty.livejournal.com]

Thank you :)

[wyrdling.livejournal.com]

good news if you're moving faster than they expected, yes?
am i on the filter? i think i am....

[unixronin.livejournal.com]

You weren't. You are now.

[bikergeek.livejournal.com]

Not sure if I'm on the filter or not, but would you add me if I'm not? Thanks.

[unixronin.livejournal.com]

You are now.

[bikergeek.livejournal.com]

Thanks. I've been trying to catch you and Cymru on IRC for updates and to say "hi" but work doesn't always leave me opportune moments to do that.

[ithildae.livejournal.com]

Welcome home! Sounds like you are willing to work hard to get back up to speed. Good thought and energy to you.

[dafydd.livejournal.com]

Welcome home!

And, I'm willing to read your med filter if you're willing to put me on it...

[unixronin.livejournal.com]

Done.

[hrrunka]

I'm glad you're home. I expect you are too! Good luck!

[unixronin.livejournal.com]

Thanks :)

[fatcook.livejournal.com]

Glad to see you home! Congrats on beating the rehab goals!

[luxobscura.livejournal.com]

I'd like to be on that filter, if it's okay with you. I've just about had it with my snail progress with my leg, and it's nothing compared to what happened to you.

[unixronin.livejournal.com]

Done.

As I was (I admit rather hurriedly) skimming through the last 10 days of posts, I saw several references to your leg, and I'd been intending to ask what happened. What's been going on?

[luxobscura.livejournal.com]

Oh, it's almost not worth mentioning when I hear stories like yours. I fell while pushing a car on ice on December 30th. Somehow managed to get a nice spiral fracture on the tibia right above the ankle. Six months later and I've only recently graduated from full time fiberglass casts into a cam boot. I'm weight bearing, and just began Rehab, where they informed me perkily that bone-regrowth not withstanding, I probably still have "several months" of rehab before I'll walk unassisted.

So, a whole year, emphasis on summer, blown...all for a simple slip and fall.

[unixronin.livejournal.com]

Ow. It's gotta really suck to have so much rehab/healing time from a relatively minor injury. Probably a difficult type of fracture to get good fixation on though.

[luxobscura.livejournal.com]

You're spot on. If it was something spectacular like a vehicle wreck, I'd be more patient, and maybe even feel grateful it wasn't worse. But two surgeries (plate in, plate out) a surgerical incision wound that is *just now* closing after 6 months (three of those months spent attached 24/7 to a wound vacuum), FIVE months out of work confined to home. and what will probably be the better part of NINE MONTHS for a slip 'n fall?

L A M E


I do you wish you the very best, though. God knows, you've done your time to the nth power, and then some.

[cymrullewes.livejournal.com]

Ok.... what's wrong with you? Poor circulation slowing down healing? Not taking your vitamins? Diabetes? Some other thing that I haven' heard about in the past 9 years that slows healing down like that? Didn't they try Reganax to close the wound? What about Silverdyne? I'd ask about Vitamin E but that's not until it is actually closed and more to prevent scarring than anything else.

Congrats on getting the plate out so quickly. He's still got his. That'll be another surgery. But at least we now know it can be removed.

[luxobscura.livejournal.com]

The wound started as the lower incision during the plate insertion surgery. It's so close to the ankle, there's just almost nothing down there except skin and bone. The fact that I'm a smoker probably didn't help either. The wound started to heal, and then reversed course and opened out to a square shape. And then a screw head and the edge of the plate started showing through, at which point they all slapped their forehead and said, "Oh....". So, after six weeks they decided there was enough stability on the tibia to pull the plate out. From that point on, slowly, it started closing in and pulling together. They did consult several times for a possible skin graft procedure, but once the plate was out they seemed very happy with the progress. It's closed now, but it's still very tender and needs to be protected.

So...yes. I just think it's a really, really bad place for an incision. Too close to the bone, not enough blood flow even on a non-smoker.

[unixronin.livejournal.com]

(nods)

Yeah, we had a hard time getting the wound on the front of my left shin healed for similar reasons. It wound up being a case of regularly applying Regranex and just waiting for new skin to grow in from the edges. Shallow-tissue wounds can be real bastards to heal.

[luxobscura.livejournal.com]

They've been using silver gels on me. I find it rather exciting that I could, in theory, be mined for semi-precious metals.

[bbullock.livejournal.com]

Glad you're getting better! I've been getting my news via fatcook.