I wish I could write here some good news already. It's been over three weeks now. Looking back now I can see there were some improvements in the range of motion as well as in the pain level in the first two weeks but then the third week it all came to a halt.
During the third week it was rather frustrating to wake up with the same pain level every morning. Sure, sleeping in the bed semi-sitting without being able to turn puts a load of strain on the muscles. My ribs and sternum however prevents me from lifting my body back up to vertical so I rather not go through the pain if I don't have to.
I have yet to lay back down flat on my back since I was in the hospital where the bed would lift me up. I have been sitting so much that I had to start a stretching routine on a regular basis to stretch out the hamstrings and calves. The C7 vertebra flares up in pain more often then not especially when I don't take a painkiller for about 6 hours.
Yes. I haven't been able to drop the painkillers. It's not that I've gotten addicted to them or anything but when I don't take a pill for a while I just can't really function. OK. I know most addiction starts like this when the patient doesn't realize or doesn't want to realize that he/she has gotten accustomed to the effects of a certain drug. I don't want to belong to this group but this healing seems to take a lot longer than any other injuries I have ever had before.
The right shoulder is just is. No real changes in how it feels at all. Some days I just want to leave the sling behind but then I'm quickly reminded by the pain that goes through my body as soon as I try to put on or take off my jacket. I can't move my shoulder and I just have to realize it.
My pinky finger hasn't moved a bit. I was given a plastic splint that wraps around my right hand from the bottom and three velcro keeps it all in place and closed. It gets super stinky in it after a while. I was given a cloth to wrap my hand in it but it just got all torn after a week or so. I started cutting up old socks to replace the cloth but those just got really stinky again.. No wonder.. old socks.. So I've been going naked for a while now and wash the plastic as often as possible.
What no one seemed to notice and even I haven't paid much attention to is the big toe on my right foot. It's been just hurting since the accident without any relief. It's not a constant pain but I don't think I would want to go ballerina now even if I could.
I have my next X-rays and my first physical therapy set up for Monday. One thing I don't want to hear is that nothing has changed a bit and my osteoblasts didn't do their job properly.
Sleep tight.
During the third week it was rather frustrating to wake up with the same pain level every morning. Sure, sleeping in the bed semi-sitting without being able to turn puts a load of strain on the muscles. My ribs and sternum however prevents me from lifting my body back up to vertical so I rather not go through the pain if I don't have to.
I have yet to lay back down flat on my back since I was in the hospital where the bed would lift me up. I have been sitting so much that I had to start a stretching routine on a regular basis to stretch out the hamstrings and calves. The C7 vertebra flares up in pain more often then not especially when I don't take a painkiller for about 6 hours.
Yes. I haven't been able to drop the painkillers. It's not that I've gotten addicted to them or anything but when I don't take a pill for a while I just can't really function. OK. I know most addiction starts like this when the patient doesn't realize or doesn't want to realize that he/she has gotten accustomed to the effects of a certain drug. I don't want to belong to this group but this healing seems to take a lot longer than any other injuries I have ever had before.
The right shoulder is just is. No real changes in how it feels at all. Some days I just want to leave the sling behind but then I'm quickly reminded by the pain that goes through my body as soon as I try to put on or take off my jacket. I can't move my shoulder and I just have to realize it.
My pinky finger hasn't moved a bit. I was given a plastic splint that wraps around my right hand from the bottom and three velcro keeps it all in place and closed. It gets super stinky in it after a while. I was given a cloth to wrap my hand in it but it just got all torn after a week or so. I started cutting up old socks to replace the cloth but those just got really stinky again.. No wonder.. old socks.. So I've been going naked for a while now and wash the plastic as often as possible.
What no one seemed to notice and even I haven't paid much attention to is the big toe on my right foot. It's been just hurting since the accident without any relief. It's not a constant pain but I don't think I would want to go ballerina now even if I could.
I have my next X-rays and my first physical therapy set up for Monday. One thing I don't want to hear is that nothing has changed a bit and my osteoblasts didn't do their job properly.
Sleep tight.
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