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I smooshed my hand

June 18, 2012 by Tricia

You’ll have to excuse me for not writing much lately. Earlier this month I had an accident that resulted in me damaging my left hand – badly. Oh and unfortunately my left hand is my writing hand so that makes typing on the computer or doing pretty much anything a whole lot more difficult!


We’ve been doing some renovations on our home and my husband “stupidly” left an extension ladder – you know one of those huge metal ladders – out in our living room. It was lying on it’s side up against a table that we have our turtle tank on but that table happens to be right in the hallway that leads from the dining room to the kitchen. Well … Early in the morning of June 7th I was wandering into the kitchen to get a drink of water and as I came back through that hallway in the semi-dark my foot caught on the ladder – or something – I really don’t know what happened and the next thing I knew I was falling literally on top of the ladder and almost under the side table.

Skip forward to a very swollen left hand, a huge bruise on my lower left thigh a trip to the local emergency room that took 6 hours – with xrays of my hand and a follow up visit with a plastic surgeon that specializes in hands and I’m in a special hand splint because it looks like I have a torn ligament in my left thumb, and possibly a torn ligament in my outer left wrist or maybe a break in the bones there. Next week I have a follow up visit with the surgeon to see how my hand is doing. It’s still swollen and bruised but less than it was to begin with so that’s good. Then if it’s not healing well enough or if she thinks it might be a complete tear of a ligament I guess she’s going to send me for an MRI and then depending on the results I might have to have surgery.

 torn thumb ligament and torn outer wrist ligament

So … thanks for leaving the ladder out Chris! Whatever happens it looks like I’m going to be in this splint for at least another four weeks so there goes half the summer. Do you know how hard it is to type on fingered and how hard it is to do just about everything else with your non-dominant hand? I take a lot of medicines and I can’t even open my pill bottles properly! I have to leave most of them open with the caps sitting on top and I’m really messed up if I close one! Oh and I can’t even use the plastic twist thing on a loaf of bread to open or close the bag. It’s hard to do with your non dominant hand and since my left hand is all splinted up so that I can’t use my thumb it’s almost impossible and very painful to do with my left hand. So my bread is put in a Ziploc bag for now.

Wrist and Thumb Spica Splint

 

The huge lump in my thigh is slowly going down. It’s been 11 days since the accident. What was once one huge lump is now several smaller ones. I don’t know if that’s good or bad? Smaller is good I suppose but it was HUGE to begin with. I was told not to be too active.

Bruised thigh after fall ON ladder

I know I’ll figure more things out as time goes by, but I’m not a happy camper.





Filed Under: Health Fitness + Beauty, Home Renovation, Life with Chris, Pulled a Trish, Toronto Tagged With: accident, bruised, clumsy, dark, difficult, dominant hand, emergency, ER, fell on, fell on ladder, hallway, hand, hematoma, hospital, hurts, husband, left hand, left wrist, ligament, living room, lump, lumpy, MRI, pain, photos, plastic surgeon, reno, side table, splint, stupid, surgeon, swollen, TFCC, thigh, thumb, torn ligament, torn thumb ligament, torn UCL Thumb, torn wrist ligament, triangular fibrocartilage complex, tripped, ulnar collateral ligament, ulnar wrist, wrist, wrist ligament, xrays

Good-bye cool April

April 30, 2012 by Tricia

It’s really become quite cool in the last week or so. I’m glad that it will be May tomorrow and that April will be long gone .. it wasn’t the April I’d been hoping for at all. March was warmer.

We actually had snow in April … we didn’t even have any snow in March! That is odd for a Canadian winter, but it happened. March was so beautiful, so warm, especially towards the end of the month when the weather was in the 70’s and even the 80’s for a few days that I started thinking about getting out the patio furniture. I suppose I could have, but it would have sat unused for most of April the way the weathers been.

I know it sounds like I’m complaining. Sounds like – I suppose I am complaining – however, I am happy that we had a very warm winter and April wasn’t absolutely freezing or anything. The plants in my garden still grew and bloomed. Spring progressed. It just felt like a setback after the glorious weather of the previous month.

Was the last month a lot cooler for you than you’d been expecting? Are you looking forward to things warming up so that you can get outside and enjoy the season and whatever outdoor activities you want to do?

Filed Under: Home and Lifestyle, Items to Try, Toronto Tagged With: April, Cold, cool, furniture, garden, goodbye, March, patio, plants, Spring, Toronto, winter

It’s getting cold again

April 22, 2012 by Tricia

I can’t believe it’s going to be so cold tomorrow. I thought it was Spring – not winter. We might even get some snow! Isn’t that terrible. We’re near the end of April – after a beautiful warm winter and decent spring and we might get snow after two seasons that barely had any snow? Odd! LOL

No no … it’s time for us to be outside wearing light jackets or not coats at all .. perhaps even shorts and tank tops! Sandals!

One great thing about my neighborhood is that once the weather is nice and even when it isn’t – people are outside visiting each other, working on their houses and their yards, walking or biking everywhere. Parents are walking their kids to the school just down the street, pregnant women are walking around in hip maternity clothes and almost everyone is friendly. Perhaps not friendly enough to stop and talk but at least to wave hello or to smile or nod your head at – make eye contact and so on.

I’ve been in this neighborhood now for 11 years and I know pretty much everyone nearby. I know people in part because it’s a friendly neighborhood and in part because until I became ill and had to take some time off work I was a nurse in the Emergency ward at the hospital down the street from my house and eventually a lot of neighbors end up coming through the emerg either as patients themselves or with friends and relatives so it’s not hard to get to know them a little bit that way.

The only time I’ve ever found this neighborhood quite or “dead” was this past Christmas. I was alone myself and there just seemed to be no one around. Everyone was away.

Hopefully the weather warms up soon and it doesn’t snow tomorrow. I’d really hate to have to pull out the shovel again! Just when my garden is really starting to do fanatically!

Filed Under: Home and Lifestyle, Items to Try, Nursing - a career, The neighbors, Toronto Tagged With: alone, away, Christmas, Cold, cold weather, emerg, friendly, ill, neighborhood, Nurse, quiet, snow, sping, talk, Walking

Still waiting to get back to work

April 22, 2012 by Tricia

I’m still waiting to hear whether I’m getting my job back at the hospital or perhaps when I might be getting it back.

Last Monday I had a meeting at the hospital in the Human Resources department. I knew that it would be with at least two people but to my surprise there were five people in the meeting! Ahhhh! I wasn’t prepared for that. I don’t think there were even that many people there for my two interview for the Emergency Department back in 2002. I think there were only three people for those interviews.

Since I’ve been off work on medical leave for 6 years the hospital wants to make sure that I’m ready to come back and they’re trying to decide where to place me. I’ll also have to learn the new computer programs for charting my nursing notes and so on.

So … I’m waiting and waiting and waiting. Between going to my doctors and telling them that I wanted to go back to work and then having meetings with Occupational Health at my workplace and then HR I’ve been working on getting back to work since January! I’m antsy to get back to work. If it takes my longer I’m going to start think about looking into a Walmart or walgreens employment application form just so I can get out and get working. It would be a waste of my Nursing education, but I’m tired of being at home.

Filed Under: Home and Lifestyle, Nursing - a career, Toronto Tagged With: back to work, Career, doctors, hospital, HR, human resources, interview, job, medical leave, meeting, Nurse, people, placement, waiting, work, workforce, workplace

Interesting News Day

April 17, 2012 by Tricia

This seems to be a historic day in many ways. I was just watching the news and I realized that it’s the 30th anniversary of the signing of The Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms – April, 17th, 1982. The Charter is still controversial even 30 years after it was created!

Then … there was a story about the Space Shuttle Discovery’s last trip. It flew on the back of an airplane as it was taken to Washington to be placed in the Smithsonian Museum. It’s hard to believe that there aren’t going to be any more Space Shuttles and that there doesn’t seem to be anything created to replace them as of yet. Well … maybe these galactic looking boots might do the trick? They’re called Alpinestars SMX 5 Boots and to me they look like they’d be perfect for space travel. LOL Yeah I’m just kidding but do take a look, they’re funky.

In my little world .. nothing historic going on here I’m afraid. I’m tired, I’m hungry and I have sore feet. Hmmm … what to do.

Filed Under: Canada, Culture, Education, Home and Lifestyle, Items to Try, Technology, Television Tagged With: 30th anniversary, Canada, Canadian, Charter of rights and freedoms, controversial, Discory shuttle, funky, history, interesting, Museum, news, news day, space boots, space shuttle

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