have last night's post this morning

[cornerofmadness]

Father's day was quiet. Mostly I read. Did walk out to ooo and ahhh at dad's new shooting range. Can't wait until I'm well enough to test it out. He's got some new guns I can play with too.

I am unconsciously trying to do too much with my arm. I'm so afraid of accidentally hurting myself. It's very hard to pull on pants without hurting myself. Should wear skirts, I think. Unfortunately, last night I noticed the vein that had the IV in it burst open. My whole hand and wrist are bruised. I also noticed a clot in the old bruise from the airline. Worse, today the IV invaded vein now has a clot. I'm probably doing too much typing and yanking things with this hand.

It makes me nervous and to add to the stress mom just looks at it, feels the lump and says her usual too me, 'you're such a hypochondriac.' I get real upset with this since I hear it from her all the time, as if I'm after attention. It's like, mom, it's not hypochondria if there are real symptoms. If you mean I'm a worrywart, say that and guilty as charged

I found one of the procedures I had done. Here you go, it's all animation, no gore biceps tendon relocation

I'm still bummed about some writers stuff too. Sigh.



I wanted pictures time stamped of my dressings appearance and of the four incisions just in case something goes awry. I look so worn out greasy and fat in the first picture, all flushed from the narcotics. All the red splotches are allergic reactions to the tape.



dressings



the one in the armpit is where they moved my biceps tendon to



these are where they went in to removed the bursas, flush out inflammatory tissues and shave down the collarbone

Comments

[caffeinified.livejournal.com]

Huh. For some reason I thought they'd cut more skin. Which makes me think medical procedures sure have changed a lot in recent years. Of course the medical field is probably the most continuously advancing field out of any field.

But I can understand you being nervous about it. You want it to heal correctly and quickly. No one can fault you for that.

[cornerofmadness.livejournal.com]

yep all done using arthroscopic cameras/tools. it's neat