It’s been FOREVER since my last post, and I really feel remiss here – that broken arm really knocked me for a loop. I never stopped having horrible amounts of pain, and after the cast came off in July, I was still feeling screamy. In came months of PT in which I went 2-4 times a week and got my wrist worked on and bent to and fro for me. I was still in pain, and had a MRI in August. In September, I had surgery on my thumb tendon, because scar tissue had built up thickly around it, and I couldn’t use my thumb properly. That surgery was a success, resolving my thumb and right side wrist pain, but I still had a lot of pain on the left side of my wrist.
More months of PT later, it was clear something was still wrong with my arm. Earlier this month, I had another MRI done on it, and it turns out my ulna healed too high up and at an angle, rubbing directly on other bones. No wonder it hurt so much all the time! So I am going in for surgery again on February 8th, hopefully to fix the problem at its core, by shortening my ulna bone so that there will be no more rubbing. I find it more than a little ironic that in order to fix the broken arm that started the whole thing, they have to break the arm again, with more screws and plates coming into play.
Lesson learned: never break your arm badly.
I have knit a little through all of this – mostly stockinette and garter stitch, things that didn’t bother my wrist too badly. You can, as always, keep up with my projects on Ravelry – I try to keep that page updated.
I’ve missed being part of the online knitting community, and I hope that I can come back in. It’d be great to reconnect.









