Apr. 12th, 2002
hand stuff
Apr. 12th, 2002 04:12 pmtherapy today.
bathe hand, new dressing, movements.
much progress. hooray!
the therapist was pretty impressed with how much motion i've gotten back into my wrist. the rest of the movement axes are good, too, but her jaw almost dropped when she asked to see the wrist. the doctor came by at one point, was less impressed - after all, i hadn't injured my wrist.
after another bath (the hand emerges from the lizard claw!), i put a bunch of little, narrow metal cylinders (a couple of millimeters in diameter) into a board, then took them out again, using a tweezers for some of them, which was harder.
i'm supposed to change the dressing myself this sunday... hope i do it ok.
oh, and next week i'll be getting ultrasound! (no, not THAT kind of ultrasound!) apparently it's also used to stimulate soft tissue somehow, so i'll be having it on the back of my hand, to loosen things up some.
bathe hand, new dressing, movements.
much progress. hooray!
the therapist was pretty impressed with how much motion i've gotten back into my wrist. the rest of the movement axes are good, too, but her jaw almost dropped when she asked to see the wrist. the doctor came by at one point, was less impressed - after all, i hadn't injured my wrist.
after another bath (the hand emerges from the lizard claw!), i put a bunch of little, narrow metal cylinders (a couple of millimeters in diameter) into a board, then took them out again, using a tweezers for some of them, which was harder.
i'm supposed to change the dressing myself this sunday... hope i do it ok.
oh, and next week i'll be getting ultrasound! (no, not THAT kind of ultrasound!) apparently it's also used to stimulate soft tissue somehow, so i'll be having it on the back of my hand, to loosen things up some.
not as much shabbat prep as a usual week, but i was asked to bring bread and dessert for dinner tonight (sushi... mmm....). so bread dough is rising, and i've dipped the last of the dried apricots in chocolate. i also dipped the last of some crystallized ginger, and made some dried-cherry-and-almond clusters. somehow it's satisfying not only to make pretty food, but to finish off lots of containers, too.