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Tuesday 16th May 2006
I saw the consultant today about my wrist pain, swelling, clicking and movement. He had a good feel of my wrist and after long examination of the x-rays and comparing them to previous ones, my wrist is given the ok. It is most likely some soft tissue, either damaged in the crash and starting to “come alive” again, soft tissue that has been stiff due to lack of use or I slightly pulled something. Either way they don’t believe its serious and I should just take it easy for a bit, using ice packs to help with the swelling.
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This post is filed under Car Crash, Injury and Recovery by Lonewolf at 4:38pm
Wrist looks bad, sent to X-Ray
Monday 15th May 2006
I had a physiotherapy session today, but as soon as I showed her my wrist, she had a little feel of it and sent me immediately down to A&E to get some x-rays, as she was not happy with how it looked. Having waited for a bit in I had a few wrist x-rays and was followed up by a talk with one of the doctors. He called in a specialist orthopaedic doctor who had a look and could not find anything serious. The internal fixtures are all secure and there is no sign of infection. He has made an appointment for me to see the senior orthopaedic consultant tomorrow.
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This post is filed under Car Crash, Injury and Recovery by Lonewolf at 4:22pm
Sunday 14th May 2006
Whilst using my dads PDA my left wrist became stiff, and I could not turn my hand from palm up to palm down, to put the PDA down. I did eventually turn my hand over with a sharp click and a burning pain in my wrist, which lasted a few minutes, and it now clicks each time I rotate it. There is also now some swelling on the forearm, which wasn’t there earlier. I’m due to see the physiotherapist tomorrow so I’ll see what she makes of it.
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This post is filed under Car Crash, Injury and Recovery by Lonewolf at 11:32am
Knee Healing Well as Physio Continues
Thursday 4th May 2006
I have seen the doctor and physiotherapist, both are very pleased with my progress so far. My Doctor has said that at this stage he can’t see why I can’t regain full use of my arm and knee over time, but it will require a lot of work, however there will always be a weakness in my knee and I may suffer problems later in life. I may also have a slight limp. The physiotherapist has given me some more exercises to do, the consultant is happy for them to push movement into the knee as much as they feel happy with. After today’s session I am now up to 90 degrees movement which sounds a lot, but it isn’t yet enough to comfortably sit on a chair normally.
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This post is filed under Car Crash, Injury and Recovery by Lonewolf at 7:01pm
Good news from the Insurance People
Wednesday 3rd May 2006
I chased my insurance company today, as I have not heard anything since the beginning of March about the car and the claim. For some reason the insurance company has not sent an engineer to see the car yet - over two months since the accident! The garage that the car was taken to have confirmed that the car is a definite write-off though. Also, the third party driver has admitted liability for the accident, so even though I knew I was not at fault, I am very relived to hear it officially.
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This post is filed under Car Crash, Injury and Recovery by Lonewolf at 10:19am
Tuesday 2nd May 2006
I have been out of plaster about a week now and i’m feeling strong enough to have a go with my telescope, of course I need help with setting up and moving it around.
I have learned a lot from the last session when I went out in plaster, and this time I tried using a Barlow lens (as suggested on UKAI). This almost doubles the image size, and I was able to capture some good shots of Jupiter. I also got a few good pictures of the Moon and a new Messier Object, M13, a globular cluster in Hercules which I found by accident (again!).
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This post is filed under Astrophotography, Car Crash, Injury and Recovery by Lonewolf at 11:52pm
