Recovering!

It has been awhile, but finally I have a truly positive update. My wrist is on the mend!

Finally diagnosed as a level 2 sprain, I was able to begin physiotherapy. While I still have internal swelling, all except one appointment has been about pain management. I'm hoping this week sees more healing therapy. I've been told I am to start using it a moderate amount as I'm now at risk of muscle apathy, and I'm finding it gets very sore and tired very quickly. It's apparently good pain, and not at risk of further being further injury, but it still hurts.

I tend to organize myself by writing things down, often in lists. (I even currently have a list of the different lists I wish to organize, having found all these partial lists laying about. But that's a whole other story...) I also like to write down my thoughts, either electronically or in a journal. Nevermind trying to keep track of all the paperwork, doctor's visits, etc, etc that is related to this injury. Not having been able to do any of this has caused me no small amount of mental discomfort. It's disheartening to still be without full use of my hand.

When at work I see the stacks of low priority work piling up, and I'm just itching to be able to plug in the music and just start plowing through it. (Data entry is so much better with MP3 players!) My absence has caused my share of work to be added to the desks of the my coworkers, and I feel awful for it. So many of my duties are on the current forbidden list, so even my time at work doesn't seem to be enough to really relieve them.

With the warm weather approaching, and my hand slowly getting better, I'm looking forward to so many things. Getting some spring cleaning done, getting my balcony ready for some summer time relaxing, and cooking up meals. I can't wait, though I have to.

And now, to go ice my wrist again. This post has found me at the end of my limit, and that's despite taking breaks... Soon... Full recovery should be soon, I hope.

Injured :-(

I injured my right wrist at the beginning of March at work. I should point out here that I am right handed. Luckily, it is neither broken nor dislocated, but other than it being a generic "soft tissue injury", I have no idea what is wrong with it. It has been over a month now.

At first, believing it would be an injury quickly recovered from, my boss and I attempted to find work I can do, and when that ran out, I tried to resume my usual duties of data entry. Unfortunately, that aggravated the injury, and so I have been off work since. Queue massive amounts of boredom and depression, and large quantities of paperwork to be filed for the leave.

I'm going stir-crazy at home, only able to watch TV and follow my limited number of facebook friends. Reading books gets sore quickly, as I cannot seem to comfortably adapt to holding a book and turning it's pages one-handed. I'm getting better at writing, typing and mousing with my wrong hand, but it tires quickly. And my right just keeps floating up to the keyboard, wanting to get back into old habits. So even time on the computer has be limited.

I am truly thankful to my wonderful parents who have been visiting to drive me places, clean for me, cut up veggies and cheese into "finger food", and stock my freezer with frozen meals.

I've been avoiding posting any entries up to now, for fear I would want to keep at it, and I simply can't make that kind of typing commitment. But I've been wanting to update my page, and so I've compromised to making just this one post until I am able to handle more typing.