Damn... broke my arm.

Gagaryn

ICBM said:

Well, it's not good news. Saw the elbow specialist today and had more x-rays taken. It's more badly damaged than they initially thought - two fractures as well as a lot of ligament damage. I'm going to need surgery and some metal parts fitted.

The slightly better less bad bit is that I should regain the use of it sooner than they initially said, and it probably won't need to be in a full cast. Full recovery isn't guaranteed though.

Op day is tomorrow...

Hope all goes well. I presume they will be fitting a volute. ;-)

Bridgehouse

Gagaryn said:

ICBM said:

Well, it's not good news. Saw the elbow specialist today and had more x-rays taken. It's more badly damaged than they initially thought - two fractures as well as a lot of ligament damage. I'm going to need surgery and some metal parts fitted.

The slightly better less bad bit is that I should regain the use of it sooner than they initially said, and it probably won't need to be in a full cast. Full recovery isn't guaranteed though.

Op day is tomorrow...

Hope all goes well. I presume they will be fitting a volute. ;-)

£5 says he has a stinger to hide the break and a sticker over his serial number

ICBM

Back home. The NHS is clearly getting good at fairly major surgery on a day-patient basis - in and out including full general anaesthetic in 7 hours. I've had what's called a radial head arthroplasty, which basically means the end of the radius has been replaced with a metal piece, and a coronoid fixation which is to repair a bit that chipped off the ulna. Apart from having very little sensation in my arm at the moment - which I'm assured is normal and will recover - it appears to have worked well and I can actually move it a bit - no cast now, just a binding and a sling.

When I was about 8 or 9 I used to watch the Six Million Dollar Man, and I wanted to be Steve Austin... this is the budget version . I told a friend of mine that and she said "be careful what you wish for" .

Bridgehouse

ICBM said:

Back home. The NHS is clearly getting good at fairly major surgery on a day-patient basis - in and out including full general anaesthetic in 7 hours. I've had what's called a radial head arthroplasty, which basically means the end of the radius has been replaced with a metal piece, and a coronoid fixation which is to repair a bit that chipped off the ulna. Apart from having very little sensation in my arm at the moment - which I'm assured is normal and will recover - it appears to have worked well and I can actually move it a bit - no cast now, just a binding and a sling.

When I was about 8 or 9 I used to watch the Six Million Dollar Man, and I wanted to be Steve Austin... this is the budget version . I told a friend of mine that and she said "be careful what you wish for" .

Pics of you in his tracksuit pls

DavidRees

wishing you a successful and pain free recovery ICBM ...

Rocker

Great to hear that you are over the OP and home again.  Take it easy and do the exercises prescribed.  It goes without saying that I wish you a pain free recovery @ICBM but I said it anyway.  In my experience the days can seem long but the weeks fly by.  Take care....

ICBM

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Not that bad actually!





This was this morning... just before the staples got taken out.



It will leave quite a scar I think - luckily I don't look at the back of my elbow a lot .

They're satisfied with progress so far - I don't have a huge amount of movement in my wrist, and it's pretty painful if I go beyond where it wants to move freely, but apparently I just have to keep working at it. No official physio needed - just a list of suggestions for the right exercises and to basically use it as much as I can stand.

I actually have full freedom of movement in my fingers and a fair bit of strength - I can hold things, if I bring the thing to the hand and not the other way round. I definitely can't play guitar yet, but bass is looking more hopeful - it's forming chord shapes that's the real killer at the moment. But not bad at all considering it's only 11 days since the operation.

vasselmeyer

That's a very neat job. I had 35+ staples in my head a few years ago. Fair warning...it can sting when they take them out.

ICBM

vasselmeyer said:

That's a very neat job. I had 35+ staples in my head a few years ago. Fair warning...it can sting when they take them out.

It did a bit, but the nurse kept me talking which distracted me enough. Only a couple of them were really nippy - not actually as bad as I expected.

bbill335

The first step of the bit-by-bit transformation from man into immortal cyborg with the world's largest database of guitar/amp tech info. 

octatonic

Jesus, you look like a cricket ball.

camf

Yikes! 

Bridgehouse

octatonic said:

Jesus, you look like a cricket ball.

Just cos he has a red t-shirt on and a bit of a leathery complexion.....

Nice stubble tho

guitars4you

Best wishes @ICBM - hope it is resolved quickly

1/2 expecting some supa dupa DIY job from yourself, albeit one handed, with a shed load of other members chucking in with other ideas of how to do it better 

Chin up and hope for a speedy recovery - mark

richardhomer

Ugghhhhh - that looks painful. Hope they replaced the caps while they were in there....

Wishing you pain-free, speedy and complete recovery.

NelsonP

Jesus - just saw your pic. Can you unzip your forearm and take it off now ;-)

Sounds like you are making very good progress if you are nearly able to pick up a bass again already.

Sporky

That looks like a robot centipede is burrowing into your arm.

So if you like sci-fi-horror, ace.

ToneControl

Are you still getting obscene comments on a regular basis?

viz

ToneControl said:

Are you still getting obscene comments on a regular basis?

Yep - that’s not going to change just because he’s had an injury surely?

ToneControl

viz said:

ToneControl said:

Are you still getting obscene comments on a regular basis?

Yep - that’s not going to change just because he’s had an injury surely?

True, but I was thinking of the predictably jolly topic of self-pollution