Bad News I was planning to go see the doctor another month from now but that got changed. I had some nasty pain in my arm for the last couple weeks due to the broken screw in there. So we called up the doctor and scheduled an appointment which was today. He was surprised to see me since he wasn't expecting us so soon. I told him that I had been having a lot of issues with pain. He thought that it could be due to the fact tat I know that there is something screwed up in my arm and that my brain is just making up the pain. I tol him that I highly doubt that, I have a high pain tollerance and it just started. After feeling the arm for soreness (a sign of heeling) he felt a pop in the arm. Ended up that with little force he could more the 2 peices of bone. That's right, I have a plate in there but yet it's moving around.

After the X-Rays we decided that surgery was about the only way to fix it. They are going to take bone out of my hip and put it in my arm. The surgery is planned for the 17th of this month and I'll probably mis up to a week of school and work due to taking the bone out of my hip, he said it wouldn't screw up my hip but it might be sore for a few days afterward. The surgery is considered out patient but I will be in the hospital for 23 hours (enough for the insurance to consider it out patient).

I'm not looking forward to it but I'm tired of living with a screwed up arm. I've lived with it for 7 months now and it's getting annoying to not be able to lift things and do the things I like to do such as track and PE which I had to drop both.

Just wish I could get wifi in the hospital. Posted by chris at 12:03 AM ArmBreak 2003 • (15) Trackbacks