Oct 17
ironing out some wrinkles
I got to talk to my surgeon today and here’s the deal…
Surgery - Friday, October 27th, bright and early
He wants me off the job for 10 days afterwards… which means the entire following work week… so no typing for me (unless I use only my right hand) from the 27th all the way through to November… uh… 6th, when I’ll return to work to type with only one arm.
I talked to my boss tonight and she said we’ll work things out somehow. I might just be a slower typer for a while.
Additionally, the doctor confirmed that I’ll be in a cast between 4 and 12 weeks, depending on how I heal. Once I’m out of the cast, I’ll be in a soft brace indefinitely - but it will take up to a year to heal fully. I’m going to have to go for physical therapy 3x a week. That’s going to be fun to work around my work schedule, and to get my family to drive me to. I HOPE I can find someone who is either really close to home or really close to work and who can do early morning or late evening hours so I can make it work with my schedule. It’s not going to be easy. At all.
I’m still very much in a funk and I’m ready to go to bed already, though I only got home from work at 8pm. Just constantly drained. I won’t know my blood test results until Saturday… so no answers on the hypothyroidism question until then.
Between my physical and mental and emotional ailments, I’m really ready to exclaim, “Twenty-eight is really too young to be falling apart!” But I feel like I am. More often than I’d like. Gonna go to sleep now.
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