Tuesday 2 October 2007: Empty cups
I was up bright and early for my appointment with the Fracture Clinic and the physiotherapist for yet another wrist checkup. It was only as I neared the hospital and reached for my camera that I realised I'd left home without it. How could this be possible? I mean to say, I'd brought it everywhere with me while away on holiday (often to Carl's annoyance), and now here I am, at home and with the eminently blippable hospital environment ahead of me, and I leave the thing at home! Am I a real blipper at all?!
The word from the hospital was mixed -- bone perfectly healed, so no need to attend the clinic for two months, but it's slightly out of alignment and I shouldn't expect an eventual return to any more than 90% of full rotational mobility: also, the numbness and tingling sensations which caused such discomfort at times while away may be due to either nerve degeneration or maybe even nerve damage. The medical advice was to keep up with physiotherapy, but to contact the clinic if the symptoms persist and make an appointment sooner than two months down the road. Either way, they'll do a neck x-ray next time to check for nerve damage.
After the clinic it was back in line for a short while to wait for the physiotherapist to be free. It was a different girl this time, and she gave me some new exercises to keep me busy for the next two weeks. She also stressed the importance of administering regular 'contrast baths' (immersing the wrist alternately in cold and warm water) to help reduce the swelling.
I had a few things to do around town when I left the hospital, but I was feeling a bit down after the down-beat wrist news/prognosis, abandoned my original plan of treating myself to a bite of breakfast and some retail therapy, and came back home for a lie-down and yet another lazy afternoon. When I finally got my act together I came across the cups I use when I host a Music Group session, still in the kitchen since the last time I'd hosted. Rather than put them away immediately I decided to blip them. My routine is to arrange ten of them neatly in a 10-pin-bowling triangular setup (handles all pointing the same way, of course), so that's how I set them up for the shot.
Comments
Even real blippers forget their cameras sometimes. That is not good news about your wrist - I hope you get suitable compensation.
Please forgive me for not commenting much lately - I was actually waiting for a moment to go through all your holiday blips and make some obsevations - I have looked at them all.
Thank you for your touching comment today.
~ shy
Very orderly and golden cups. I try not to be anywhere without a camera now. It is distressing when the batteries go dead.
Hoping you wrist pulls through with the physical therapy!
~ Chaos
I love the orderliness of these cups. There is an air of calm about them. Sorry about the wrist.
~ Poppy
Super shot, hope the wrist mends soon.
~ Lynn
Such an ordeal this whole wrist thing, good luck with it. Nice shot of the cups though.
~ kdoes
Remember Doctors are only good guessers, sometime they get it wrong, Hope you heal quickly.
~ brickmaker
Lovely, fancy a brew?
~ reidar
beautiful tea cups! sorry to hear about the wrist, I do hope it will improve with time!
~ tigraki
The WORST news DS you underplay this I feel
Shout! scream! wail! beat! your chest! get a second opinion that is what I would do.. about the misalignment etc I would want to do something about that, IF it were advisable and possible even if it meant a repeat of the last 8 weeks good grief this is what I feared the most..for you (and me)
Mine which has minimal misalignment less than1% still have some problems so by extrapolation I can tell what you are going thru...
~ Flick
@Flick: Thanks for the concern and for the advice. I really don't relish going through a repeat, though I have to admit to huge disappointment with yesterday's outcome. I'll stick strictly to the physiotherapist's exercise routine for the next two weeks and submit the wrist to the contrast baths on a regular basis. If things don't show a significant improvement at that stage, that's when I'll consider my options.
~ dublinshooter
I was never told about the hot cold thing... my clicking wrist and aches were put down to ligament, muscle and nerve scarring from the original injury and he taught me how to deep massage the area which really works ..
I think you are wise to go with what they say..for now... it's just that the misalignment thing is going to be a bluddy nuisance and as for the nerve damage I would imagine that is too
Every footballer with these sorts of injuries would have the toppest notchest care which would include oxygen therapy and stuff and it makes me sick to think that because you and I are not 'worth' anything we don't get this treatment ...over the years how many times do you think we will be using the health service because of recurring problems I bet it would make better sense to sort these things out properly in the first place
sorry to go on any way I did forget to say the first time I like the photo and a good cup of tea solves EVERYTHING inmho
also 10000 steps is incredibly easy to do I have already done 4895 this morning and I am just in the house !!!
It is an average assumption tho'
~ Flick
This is a very elegant looking blip.
I like your cups very much.
~ Cora
Very interesting photographic angle.
Sorry to hear about your wrist DS. I think you will end up having to learn to live with it. I live with a number injuries from my bike racing days. All have had a lasting effect but my wrist and forearm is the one that bothers me the most because I use a mouse so much. I get really bad tendonitis which takes days to go away.
~ myangle
Sorry to hear about the wrist (but chortling to hear of Carl's irritation with your constant camera companion!) and the potential nerve damage.
The elegance of your cup arrangement is a suitably calming counterpoint.
~ Red
Does contrast-bathing work or is it just one of these things the medical establishment invent every now and then to amuse themselves?
~ wingpig
Great angle on this blip. I've had a few cameraless moments lately too. Maddening.
I must catch up with the rest of your blips especially the ones towards the end of you holiday. I really enjoyed Croatia, where are you taking us next time?
~ Echo
@Echo: Budapest. We're spending a few days there with friends, beginning on the 11th.
~ dublinshooter
Lovely looking china!
~ archangel
Rough news DS. It's not fun is it?
Loverly cups and arrangement. I now envisage you as the Mad Hatter. Personally I've always been more of a Dormouse.
~ Northern
@Northern: Now you've done it! Now we have Northern The Dormouse to add to the lexicon -- doesn't perhaps have the same ring as Beastie Woman, but it'll do, I suppose.
~ dublinshooter
I'm happy to be a dormouse. I get to sleep loads and hang out at teaparties.
~ Northern
Great shot!
~ dark
great size of a mouse shot.. superb
~ Croz
I thought as soon as I saw your beautifully elegant shot that it would be the perfect accompaniment to Jim and Liz's wedding cakes. However, I see that the cake on the right hand side is slightly out of allignment. Oh dear.
I have a sneeky feeling that you have a hero in the form of Hercule Poirot.....
I'm so sorry to hear about your wrist and the prognosis. I was interested in the 'nerve damage' possibility. A few years back, when on holiday in Tuscany, I woke up in the morning with pins & needles in my right hand, and numbness. I had been sleeping on it, and did the usual shaking of it to get it to wake up. However, I was left with numbness in my wee pinkie, and half of the ring finger. I went to the doctor's and was referred to hospital, as there was concern about my being a musician. I had to have neck and arm tests. It turns out there was nerve damage, related to computer work, and that it was at the elbow, not in the hand. The tests were not v.pleasant, involving electrodes dipped in water!!
However, the good news is that it did get better, and I have little problems now. The arm brace I got for using in bed was horrendously clumsy. But, a funny - the consultant said, "I am sorry that your husband may not like the arm brace". So, I asked if I could have one of THEM on the National Health as well.
He was So young, and blushed beautifully.........
Sorry to ramble on!
~ bethceol
Came across this quite by accident. Brilliant - if I ever shoot any crockery I may have to plagiarise.
~ hiraeth
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