My question.
Three weeks post surgery. Most things going well, except if I don't take care about how I move, my ulna dislocates (I can tell this by feel, this is happening under the cast).
Also, I'm getting bruising at my elbow. There was a lot to begin with, that started to go, but this looks persistent. It's still blue/black and is tender. The surgery was up close to my wrist, so I'm kind of surprised I'm getting bruising down at my elbow still.
MrsC thinks I should call the hospital and ask about it. What does the panel think?
I finally got in to see the doc on Tues this week (yes, a week and a half after I phoned them saying I had slight concerns).
they cut off cast, xrayed and the surgeon examined things. All ok, bruising to be expected. As by then I'd been 5 weeks in plaster, at my suggestion, they didn't put a cast back on, they just sent me home with a wrist brace and instructions not to lift *anything*. The bones haven't actually grown back together yet, it's just held together by the metalwork.
Hand and forearm muscles are extremely wasted and my wrist bones are so stiff, very little movement in my wrist; without the cast I can start to move things very gently. Physio is being booked.
Had a good wash (finally! at home) then spent an entertaining 5min with tweezers pulling hairs out of the healed up incision. They hadn't shaved my arm and had trapped quite a lot of hairs when they sewed me back up!
