Coming back from my neighbors house the morning of Dec 17, I slipped and fell with the weight of my entire body landing on my right wrist. I knew instantly it was bad so we raced to urgent care. I am so thankful Jimmy still happened to be home. Sadly I broke my right wrist pretty badly and was in extreme pain. After doing x-rays and putting a splint on it we headed to see my Dr who has performed several hand surgeries on me. They did a process called reducing it and then casted it until they could schedule me for surgery. The cast was up past my elbow making it impossible to do almost everything. They had an opening on the 26th for surgery where they had to put a plate in and finish straightening my bones out. The pain is much better now at 1 week post op. I go back to the Dr on Monday and will find out how much longer I have to function one handed! Right now I am not allowed to lift anything heavier than 1/2 a pound with my right hand. Needless to say that makes it pretty much impossible to care for Jackson and Camden by myself when I can't even pick them up or change a diaper!
Jimmy and my mom have been amazing! They are cleaning, cooking, changing diapers, holding and rocking Camden and pretty much everything else around the house. One of the only things I am still useful for is feeding Camden, however, someone still has to bring him to me and burp him. My dad has been helpful too when he's been here. I am so fortunate to have parents who are retired and are so willing to come stay for extended periods of time helping me!
I have lots of posts to add here once I have more use of my right hand. So please check back to read about our Thanksgiving, Santa visit, Christmas, Camden's monthly updates and more!
My fingers were in Chinese finger traps with a weight pressing down on my upper arm trying to stretch out my forearm. Then they put a plaster cast on after molding and trying to realign the bones
Then added the fiberglass cast which kept my arm bent at a 90 degree angle
I got some pretty flowers and a new Christmas Cactus plant :)
