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Originally Posted by njrick
That is terrible news Luke! the good news is that both seem to be on the mend. A fracture on 2 places? did they cast her? hoping that the therapy does the trick and she can avoid surgery! hoping everything with your mom is ok too!
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Nope, no cast, per se... sling, and then a brace with limits on the hinges... she's moving it now...
It was really weird. Took her to the ER that morning, they X-rayed it, said "yep it's broke" and put her in a sling and sent her home with a Rx for happy pills. She had a follow-up with an orthopedic doc about a week later (??? seems like a long time to wait to me, but what do I know-- seems like all medical stuff now is "hurry up and wait!"). He sends her for a CAT scan, which takes several more days and basically another week before she gets back in for him to "review the findings". He tells her he's never seen one busted that bad on an adult-- chip of bone off the elbow, two fractures, ligaments totally torn off the bone, etc. He said, "Oh yeah, we're gonna have to do surgery-- but not here... we've never done one this bad... I'm sending you to an elbow specialist". So she calls the guy to make an appt., his secretary brusquely says "he doesn't see patients anymore" (Guess he's retired and she's just in charge of doling out people's records when they need them). She gets in touch with someone else and gets an appt. ANOTHER week later, so now it's like THREE weeks, and still the ONLY thing that the guy the ER doc referred her to was gripe how the ER SHOULD have splinted her, so he did a "soft cast" on her with some kind of wet-n-stick-til-it-hardens moldable removable stuff wrapped with an ace bandage... She made an appt. with the local bone-n-joint place (instead of in downtown Houston) for a second opinion. She went downtown, they did an MRI, and said, "nope, don't need surgery, just an articulated brace" and put her in one, and then physical therapy. She gets a copy of her CT scan and MRI for the other place's doc to look at, and drops it off. The other place calls her and moves her appt. back because the "CT scan isn't on the disk, just the MRI". She plays phone tag with the first bunch and they assure her it's on there, then a couple days later the other place goes "oopsies, we found it-- it was on there" and makes her an appt. Doc there says the same thing-- PT and the articulated brace, so she decides to do it all locally.
By this point it's been several weeks since she busted it and I'm like "WTF?" because heck by that time it's either healed up on its own or royally screwed up...
Oh well...
In other news, Keira made purple belt in her Kickstart Kids martial arts program at school...
Later! OL J R
