Life Experience part 2

So after I got my arm set I was in my first cast for 3 weeks. It took me awhile to get used to sleeping with my extra weighted arm but I managed. It was either on my right side with it up on my body pillow or on my back with it over my head. The over the head one proved dangerous at times when I'd twitch in my sleep and hit my head with a hard cast but I'm still alive ;) I was able to get off the pain killers pretty quickly so that helped. The doctor wanted me to stay in my sling as much as possible to keep the swelling down but the best feeling ever was to just let my arm hang at my side and let my elbow straighten out...amazing!!! So I went back after 3 weeks, in which my arm shrank a bit and I could move the cast about an inch up and down my arm, not good. So I got a new cast, still camo, that fit my now skinnier arm and was about an inch shorter than my last one and my what a difference an inch can make. With my first cast I could barely bend my elbow and I couldn't touch my left ear, let a lone my shoulder, but with the second one I could put my earrings in and touch my shoulder...hallelujah!!! I had one check up between my new cast and when I was supposed to get it off so I had a plan to try and put in motion with the doctor. I was supposed to get my cast off after Memorial Weekend, which meant that I'd have to go to Palm Springs with my extended family with a cast on that I couldn't get wet, so i asked him if I could get it off early so I could get in the pool and not have to worry about it. I blamed it on the fact that I didn't want to disappoint my 2nd cousins that I couldn't get in the pool and play with them, which is true but I did want it off by this point. He agreed, only saying that I better be careful with it...I agreed right on the spot! So I went back in 2 weeks and 2 days later and got it taken off and was given a velcro brace to wear when not in the pool. Early on I was given a stuffed animal horse that I affectionately named Quad that had a cast around his left front leg to match mine. So he got his cast off too!! The doctor told me to wear the brace like a cast for 2 weeks and then I could ween myself off of it. Well anyone who knows me knows that weening myself off something, like my brace, involves taking it off one day and never putting it back on...so that's what I did :) I had one more checkup after my brace was off and a few more X-rays and my bones are doing great. New bone is growing back where the break was and my strength is coming back. It still clicks and clunks when I use it but it's on the mend! :)

Quad

This is how I took my showers

I was so happy when the swelling went down enough to get my purity ring back on

(L to R) broken, right after they set it, 2nd cast

2nd cast...still camo...still awesome!!!

Getting our casts off!!!

Quad was so brave :)

Fresh out of my cast...it left really weird!!!

The brace I got

I'd say 85% better...just took this picture :)