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Well, the surgery went just fine.  I was hoping I'd be awake for it but apparently the Versed and the other drug they gave me just put me to sleep during the half hour operation.   They gave me a nerve block so my arm was completely dead and I could of been awake if I wanted.  Whatever, it was over before I knew it and I was on my way home shortly after I woke up. The nerve block was wicked weird, it was like I was touching someone else's hand.  Felt like John's hand actually.  I'd take it out of the sling and it would just flop around like it was dead.  That wore off by around 4 last night and I took a coupla vicadin to fend off the pain.  I haven't had anything since, and it's starting to ache a bit as I use it for typing.  I'll probably just take some ibuprofen and save the good stuff for sleeping.  Doctors apt on the first of June, until then I'm back to showering with a bag on my hand. The doctor made me a copy of...

This Thursday (5/21) I'm going to get a Synthes 3.0mm headless compression screw put into my scaphoid bone in my wrist. This option will get me out of a cast and back into my normal activities faster and also ensure proper healing of the bone. Should take around 45min surgery time. In the hospital at 12:45, out around 4. This was the option I was hoping for, fixation an reduction of broken bones is something I believe in.. and it should be considering what I do for a living. Unfortunately, these screws aren't made in my plant, I believe they are made in PA somewhere. I'll figure that out at work tomorrow. I'm going to get the long thread version in stainless. I have alot of the cancellous (spongy inside bone) on the other side of the fracture for the threads to bite into. It's going into my scaphoid, which is in the wrist and shown in the picture below (with the titanium short thread version). The tip of the screw has a steeper (faster) pitch than the head so as t...

Online tilt-shift lens image manipulator makes things look like they're toys instead of full scale. This sorta turned out, I need to find a better subject photo..

Lately it seems things aren't going so well for me. My back hurts, my hands and feet are tingling at random times due to some unknown nerve problem, and then I go and break my wrist... I was starting to get bitter at all the healthy people around me who don't even know what it's like to hurt constantly. People who go on abusing their body with grease and television while I do the best I know how to my body and repeatedly get the short end of the stick. Then I find out this morning that a friend I've been on a few rides with and some generally great fun with died last night in his sleep. A mid-late 30's friend who rode more than anyone I know, and was apparently one of the healthiest people I've had the pleasure to hang out with. Cause of death, unknown but natural. This person, this picture of what I was starting to get frustrated seeing is now gone.. forever. It's quite the reality check when you are put back into the realization that you could be...