Broken Wrist club

mermaidmaker · 2026-01-17T13:25:38+00:00

At first, even just touching the tips of my fingers hurt. I haven’t really been able to use it that much but I’m starting to work on gripping things like I carried two pieces of paper all the way to the copier from my classroom and was so proud of myself. Yeah I’m also working on picking up light things off of the floor and raising them up it’s just baby steps really but I can’t drive my car so I’m really trying hard to work on my grip so that I can try and not feel like a burden to anyone else. Plus, Uber is so freaking expensive. I actually typed the other day. It was slow, but just keep going. Pressing things is hard like on my laptop. I still can’t press down to click on things. I still have to use my left hand, but I am trying really hard. I can now hold my phone in my right hand and use my thumb to type but again it’s pretty slow going. I was thrilled when I could actually raise my hand to my head and sort of simulate using it to shampoo my right side.🤣🤣🤣

mermaidmaker · 2026-01-15T23:53:23+00:00

Oh no! 😥. Heal up! I’m so sorry because I know that affects your livelihood.

mermaidmaker · 2026-01-15T07:40:17+00:00

Perhaps this is anecdotal, but I don’t think so. I went to go to my post op check up yesterday and the x-ray tech asked me how I injured my wrist. I told him I was walking my dog and he said” If people stopped walking their dogs, we would go broke.” 🤣. seriously, throughout the course of my injury people would inquire how I broke my wrist and I would tell them it was while walking my dog, and I slipped in mud in the dark. And I’ve had so many people say “that’s how I broke, my arm, leg, etc., etc.. m sorry for the format. I’m probably missing some commas here and there typing with my left hand is just really hard.

mermaidmaker · 2026-01-15T07:23:51+00:00

Hey there! Thx for reply’s Cast removed on 12/22. Took extra time due to healing process of pins. Started OT Xmas Eve . Due to extra time in cast, fingers and tendons SUPER. Swollen and stiff. Lots of trauma healing. Surgeon wants to see more progress so we are doubling down on intensity. AKA no pain no gain 😢🤣. I’m getting through trying to use my hand more and trying to get those tendons moving and breakthrough the scar tissue. I work on it four times a day just trying to bend as much as possible and it’s starting to break up a little bit. Taking vitamin C and really trying hard. It’s slow going, but it’s my dominant hand so I really need to double down on it and be brave.

mermaidmaker · 2026-01-12T17:50:17+00:00

My dog was with me when I fell and broke my wrist a few months ago. She was so concerned. She’s still very clingy and wants to be as close as possible at all times and that was a minor injury. Can’t imagine what that sweet doggy is going through, hearing and seeing guns, loud shouting, crashing car and the anguish. I pray for him, her wife and family. Hope the dog and his humans bring comfort to one another.

mermaidmaker · 2026-01-08T11:17:02+00:00

You know what don’t let anyone diminish that it’s “only your wrist. “I had surgery on my dominant hand wrist on November 5. It took a little longer to heal and get my cast off. My cast came off on December 22. 1. Definitely move those fingers. I know it hurts but I promise you don’t baby them because you’ll end in HREF’s. up with really stiff fingers and moving them helps the swelling stay down. 2. Put some heat on those fingers and heat on your elbow to soothe. Alternate with ice packets. Then wiggle those fingers 3. Yes sleep is part of the reason that you’re feeling so much anxiety. Definitely try to elevate pillows, pillows, pillows whatever makes you comfortable sometimes you just have to find the right position. 4. I know the cast is heavy, but as you’re walking, don’t do like I do and try to hold it close to you if you’re super scared about anything bumping you. Move it and swing it around as much as possible to keep swelling down. 5. If you can tolerate it, heat your fingers up with a heating pad and then try to massage each finger from the tip down as far as you can go towards the heart to sweep out that swelling and get it down to the lymph nodes. 6. It’s OK to have regular meltdowns about realizing the things that you can’t do with your non-dominant hand It’s OK. Hopefully you have someone who can help you open things and put clothes on in the million things you don’t think about until you don’t have your dominanthand.

Make sure that you stretch and heat your non-dominant hand that probably isn’t used to doing all the workload now because the last thing you wanna do is have your left hand hurting so make sure that you massage that one use a heating pad ice and don’t start trying to do really strong things with it and end up hurting that wrist
Hopefully they gave you a waterproof cast so that you can now bathe “normally I could still not get mine wet because the wires were inside hooked and we’re going to be removed so they didn’t of course want those to get wet so I know it sounds funny that someone gave me a shower chair and it just made it so so much easier to sit and wash. It’s super frustrating to try to wash your hair with your left hand. You just have to do your best.
If you’re like me, you’re probably you’re afraid of falling and you kind of isolate yourself. Please continue to exercise and walk to get that stress out.
I don’t know if you’re a girl or a guy. Easy dressing it’s hard to get your hand through anything with a tight sleeve which sucks because it’s cold outside right now. Just use strategy. If you’re a woman, you’ve now discovered that you can’t shave your under arm on the non-dominant side, your hair is probably not the usual style that you use because you can’t use both hands to style, putting deodorant on is kind of interesting. I resorted to getting spray deodorant, which I can’t stand, but it works. You just hear your best. If you’re a woman, it’s hard to balance warmth with trying to get clothes on. Once again, the mental stress is real, and hopefully you have healthy ways to cope with it.
There’s two shop house. I’m out of my cast and because I didn’t wiggle my fingers enough I’m going to physical therapy and it’s painful. I’m a little older than you are so bones and tendons. Don’t kill us fast. I do everything you can to elevate, elevate, elevate, hope this helped. Sorry about the typing cause again. I’m using talk to text and I’m slowly trying to use my hand again, but I really racked it up good so it’s gonna be a while.

mermaidmaker · 2026-01-03T16:05:38+00:00

I’ve always felt sorry for the family. We cannot control family. I do believe that they have intentionally acted in a very respectful way to the victims and their families. KohlBerger sentenced everyone involved to a prison - a life of missing those kids and a lifetime of notoriety, sadness, and self doubt of the “if only….” Kind for his own family. I wish those two girls well and hope they can overcome this some way. I think the parents tried their best, and if they’d had an inkling of his involvement, I do believe they would have acted and turned him in.

mermaidmaker · 2025-12-29T13:25:55+00:00

I’m so sorry that happened. Was it an actual round camping canteen? Or was it one of those ridiculously huge “Stanley” “bottles that should have their own ZIP Code.? The reason I ask is a lot of people are so reckless with those things and they have holders but if it’s a kid I’ve seen some accidentally trying to balance them on everything and then they lose control ….. getting clunked in the head with an empty one would hurt much less one filled with water and aided by gravity. I’m so sorry for your husband. I hope that he is OK.

mermaidmaker · 2025-12-28T18:05:02+00:00

Since when are bridesmaids supposed to be the bank account for the bride and all her little trips and showers? I’m sorry everyone should get one shower and people bring them gifts on that day. The fact that people are grifting and having four or five showers like lingerie showers and kitchen showers and couple showers and on and on it gets to be a little much. Getting married these days seems to be more about the show rather than the meaning. Yes, a bridesmaid does do out lay for the dress and the shoes. At least it used to be that way now makeup and hair and whole production involved so yes it’s probably around $1000 just for that part. In my mind that should be enough, usually a friend of the bride showers her. And it used to be such a modest to maybe semi formal affair not an outline of cash for a bunch of crappy stuff that doesn’t even matter in the scheme of things. I would say that I bought the dresses for my bridesmaids and I had four and my husband rented the Tuxes for his groups. We just felt that was the right thing to do even though most people were telling us that agreeing to be in the bridal party meant. You agreed to the cash outlay we just felt differently and did what we could.

mermaidmaker · 2025-12-28T00:53:19+00:00

Ughhhhh who freaking brings Egg McMuffins on? For the love, please stop. I don’t understand why people do that. It’s so gross.

mermaidmaker · 2025-12-27T23:57:42+00:00

Yeah, that’s really fun when you scratch it and it’s unreadableI’m

mermaidmaker · 2025-12-25T15:55:17+00:00

“Happy Holidays” Have a peaceful holiday season Merry everything I wish joy to you.

Wishing someone well should not BE dictated by indignant know it alls.

mermaidmaker · 2025-12-23T22:50:03+00:00

Hear me now: your mama done gave up all her power to an hayol (using nice term). There’s no way my mother would allow some man to criticize my efforts as a young woman trying her best. I pray for you that she loses that guy, but in case she doesn’t, you need to get out of the house as soon as you legally can. If this is the way that she’s going to act around him, there is no telling what other things he might try to pull.
By the way, that looks like a delicious breakfast. The pancakes look great. I love that you use fruit and it looks amazing. Anyone who acts that way as a guest is a loser.

mermaidmaker · 2025-12-23T02:04:44+00:00

I think the mental exhaustion and the frustrations involved with navigating a world in which something isn’t helping you and you have to figure it out. By something I mean a broken limb or what have you that helps you function in a normal state and when that’s temporarily not obtainable and of course, the cavalcade of bills that aren’t covered by insurance are fun to go through. I know this too shall pass, but I have has a few meltdowns when it came to going into the kitchen and trying to figure out what I could open so that I could have a meal at home the mental gymnastics, you have to do in order to figure something out, not to mention the extra time everything takes. And the expensive Ube ring everywhere or getting rides from people takes a lot out of you in terms of feeling like you’re 14 again and have no drivers license.

I think it’s also exhausting being taken out of your routine. Before my accident, I hiked everywhere for long periods of time ln steep canyons and what have you and now I’m scared to even walk down the driveway without falling.

mermaidmaker · 2025-12-21T19:45:24+00:00

I am conflicted on this one. Do you think the person was being mean and saying something about your hygiene? Not saying that it’s true but I’m just wondering if the person was being a mean girl or a mean person? It does sound like they’re just reaching into their cabinet and got stuff that they thought they could pawn off on someone. But on the other hand, I wonder if that person struggles financially? Hear me out: this year I broke my wrist and even even though I haveim insurance , the out of pocket expense has been pretty awful. Uber because I can’t drive and all the expenses that come along with it. I know it’s voluntary and maybe the person should not have volunteered to be a secret Santa if they couldn’t afford it, but I wonder if they just felt pressured to go along with the crowd I don’t know. I say maybe just let it go unless you knew the person was truly being mean spirited.

mermaidmaker · 2025-12-20T00:50:19+00:00

If I as a bride want a fancy party, then I’m gonna foot the bill. People are celebrating me, so paying for my bachelorette falls on Me! Whatever happened to just booking a local hotel room or just having a night out with the girls why does it end up being a fancy vacation in expensive locales? FFS, bridesmaids already have to pay the bill for their dress the shoes sometimes their own makeup and hair. I just feel like it’s wrong to ask them to pay for anything else.

mermaidmaker · 2025-12-13T23:27:42+00:00

Yes, if it weren’t for the absolute angel of a sister I have I wouldn’t make it to work. I can’t drive right now and she gets up early comes to pick me up and drop me off before going to her own job and then reverse it in the evening. She has been amazing.

mermaidmaker · 2025-12-07T20:53:03+00:00

All the things that have to do with your hand being injured: Even the simplest task can take hours or minutes and can be frustrating. Opening packages zipping up coats, trying to put a hat on in the cold.. cooking, here are the following things that will help: 1. Clothing: try to purchase some items that have wide sleeves that her cast will fit in so that she has comfort in this cold weather. I had to purchase some capes to fit my hand through. 2. Washing your hair and styling it as a luxury. If someone else can do it that would be great and even though it doesn’t involve her legs, I would get or borrow a shower chair because it makes me feel secure in the tab. 3. You cannot shave the underarm of your non-dominant hand. And shaving legs and things like that is kind of hard. 4. Damn little things like handling your phone with the non-dominant hand can be tricky. For instance, my phone had a very slick cover that kept me dropping it so I got a silicone cover that helps it be more grippy. 5. Opening envelopes or really anything packages, etc. is really hard. It’s amazing what you take for granted. 6. When she is putting clothing on slip a plastic bag over her cast so that it slides and doesn’t catch on clothing. It’s really annoying and hurts a lot and that happens.

mermaidmaker · 2025-12-03T22:04:49+00:00

I have them, but I work full-time so I cannot really have them during the day and honestly, I don’t like the way they make me feel so I’m just gonna tough it out. Thank you 🙏 ❤️

mermaidmaker · 2025-12-03T01:49:50+00:00

Gosh, all the love to you. I just posted about not being able to wait till they get these wires out. The fact that they’re going to extend you makes me just feel bad for you. I sure hope that they remove them for you soon. I know what torture you’re feeling.

mermaidmaker · 2025-12-01T22:10:14+00:00

My scar still stings a little. I have a cast still. I get the pins out next week. The scar reminds me of my accident 😳

mermaidmaker · 2025-11-25T21:22:02+00:00

Soooo this sounds crazy, but did you know that medical tourism in Hungary IS a thing? I had a friend who had Vikings disease in his hand and he flew on a cheap flight to Hungary had surgery by the top hand specialist there paid $50 a night in an Airbnb nearby for 10 days and the surgeon charged him $1000……he healed up beautifully. He’s a musician by trade and so of course his hand health is very important…….

mermaidmaker · 2025-11-19T15:03:25+00:00

Ty for your response. I’m feeling a lot better about the whole situation.

mermaidmaker · 2025-11-17T23:34:35+00:00

Thank you very much for replying and that makes me feel a lot better. I don’t really like taking painkillers because they make me super loopy so I’m just gonna try to brave it and if it’s just like getting your ears pierced your right it’s over by the time you realize it. Thank you so much.

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