After four surgeries and over a year of physical therapy I never regained feeling on the ulnar side of my left hand, in fact the loss of feeling is worse than before I had surgery. After doing months of additional therapy it was suggested that I might have a blood flow problem and they wanted [...]
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You may be wondering why the Duct Tape picture for this post? Well I never had any external stitches, only medical suture tape which always made me giggle. They always say you can fix ANYTHING with Duct Tape, and know now that it is true. Today was officially three weeks since I had my endoscopic [...]
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Today is officially six days since I had endoscopic carpel tunnel and cubital tunnel surgery on my right hand & arm. I went to my first physical therapy appointment since having surgery done. I met with kym who was very nice. She took off the gauze and replaced it with a snug fitting “sock” that [...]
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Today is Tuesday, July 26 five days since I had the carpel and cubital surgeries done on my right arm. I’m doing better overall, the experience wasn’t as bad as I had originally feared. The main problem I have been experiencing is a lot of swelling in my fingers and my hand still feels like [...]
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The surgery went well, or so they are saying. I feel better than expected, thanks to the pain mess. They gave me Hydrocodone-Acetaminop 7.5-500 tabs. I can wiggle my fingers even though they are still completely numb after the surgery. Posting this from my iPhone, when I get out of bed and over to my [...]
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