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softball3332
05-14-2007, 06:04 PM
Hi everybody!
The surgery I was supposed to have today to remove the plates and screws in my left arm ended up having to be rescheduled. There was a power outage at the same-day surgery center due to a couple of power lines being cut. The place was running on back-up generators and they can't start new procedures when they are on back up generators.
The surgery was rescheduled for next Monday morning.
I thought I should let you all know. I am still in a cast for the time being. :rant: :rant:
PattiCake
05-15-2007, 10:03 AM
Sorry you're having to wait another week. :( Hope everything goes smoothly! :hug:
softball3332
05-15-2007, 07:04 PM
Sorry you're having to wait another week. :( Hope everything goes smoothly! :hug:
Thanks Patticake!:hug:
I am frustrated because I wanted to get this done and over with. I have this dang cast on,I am on restrictions at work, and it's hard to do anything with this cast on.
idiots that were installing stoplights who cut the power lines:Hit 1: me !
southerncharm
05-15-2007, 07:57 PM
Im sorry softball! I wish I could get the screws and plate out of my neck! When I had my neck surgery they put those in...sometimes I wonder If thats why I still have pain! :confused:
softball3332
05-15-2007, 10:00 PM
Im sorry softball! I wish I could get the screws and plate out of my neck! When I had my neck surgery they put those in...sometimes I wonder If thats why I still have pain! :confused:
That could be a big part of it. I have been having pain in my wrist and hand when the weather changes. Some of that could be the plates and screws, some of it could just be the injury itself. :confused:
shelly 72
05-16-2007, 07:51 AM
That could be a big part of it. I have been having pain in my wrist and hand when the weather changes. Some of that could be the plates and screws, some of it could just be the injury itself. :confused: I'm sorry softball..I wish there was something more we could do for you..:hug: Just know that we're here for you and you'll be in our thoughts..
softball3332
05-16-2007, 05:59 PM
I'm sorry softball..I wish there was something more we could do for you..:hug: Just know that we're here for you and you'll be in our thoughts..
Thanks Shelly!:hug: That is awfully sweet of you. I am SO looking forward to getting all this hardware out.
scrawny
05-17-2007, 08:27 AM
Ya never know...maybe its a good thing it was postponed...I'm of the mind-set EVERYTHING happens for a reason. Hang in there. :)
softball3332
05-17-2007, 10:41 PM
Ya never know...maybe its a good thing it was postponed...I'm of the mind-set EVERYTHING happens for a reason. Hang in there. :)
I'm trying to, it's not the postponement of the surgery that's bothering me right now. It's this cast I have on! I can't do much of anything with this on! :rant:
southerncharm
05-17-2007, 10:46 PM
I'm trying to, it's not the postponement of the surgery that's bothering me right now. It's this cast I have on! I can't do much of anything with this on! :rant:Hey soft! Can I call you that? Wait...I like softy better...LOL..Its shorter, and Im not the best typist! LOL...Hang in there, sweetie...my son had a cast, and when It was taken off he said he felt like his arm was taken off....just be aware of that....:)
scrawny
05-17-2007, 11:02 PM
I'm trying to, it's not the postponement of the surgery that's bothering me right now. It's this cast I have on! I can't do much of anything with this on! :rant: LOL. Ya know, you can take a hack-saw to it...LOL. Ive known a few people who have taken their casts off...LOL. Not the plates and screws, though...
softball3332
05-17-2007, 11:02 PM
Hey soft! Can I call you that? Wait...I like softy better...LOL..Its shorter, and Im not the best typist! LOL...Hang in there, sweetie...my son had a cast, and when It was taken off he said he felt like his arm was taken off....just be aware of that....:)
Only you, southerncharm, can call me that! I know about casts! This is like the 8th one on this arm in the past almost three years! This is a soft cast and I can actually take it off (it's only half fiberglass with ace bandages wrapped around it.). But with the fiberglass shaped to my arm basically renders the left hand useless. I can barely move my fingers to type and it gets in the way of typing-considering I do have a one page paper due in my class on Tuesday night.