wrist update

So it's been six days today since I got the cast off and the brace on. I'm typing with both hands again without pain for the most part, which is a good thing. No more hunting and pecking with one hand!

The lack of range of motion has gotten me concerned. I have this one exercise I'm supposed to do--flexing my hand forwards and backwards, which I'm to do for five minutes four times a day. It's very depressing. I can barely move my wrist much and it does definitely twinge when I do it. I'm not concerned about the pain--I expected it after five weeks in a cast. Muscles do atrophy, after all, and get stiff. But this stiff? I can bend my right hand almost to a 90 degree angle to my wrist both forwards and backwards. Left? About 20 degrees if I'm helping it along with my right hand.

I'm not a patient person. I'm expecting things to get better like NOW, and it's going to be a long, slow slog, methinks. I'll bet I end up in physical therapy of a more extensive sort after my next appointment on the 13th. I'd have to, what with the small amount of range of motion I've got right now. I just don't see it getting much better with the one exercise I've been given to do in a mere week and a half's time. And PTs gonna hurt a lot more than this wrist flex exercise...Le sigh.

Oh wells. If anything this will be a lesson in patience with myself, which I sorely need...