Hi all,
guess what---I've fallen and broken my left wrist. Been walking on The Roaches in Staffordshire, which are steep and rocky, and waited until I was \"safely\" back on the road, and went crashing down on the tarmac with my arm under me, (no footpath) It was a single break and was sorted by manipulation. I'm plastered to the elbow, what a hoot---never broken a bone before!! Cannot drive of course until the plaster comes off in 6 weeks oh joy!! I'm such a sure footed person usually, and am really cross with myself, not least because I've now given ammunition to the medics to shoot me down for not taking AA. My Dexa scan at the end of Jan was normal, I take calcium and Vit D supplement, and am obsessive about eating a very high calcium diet. The PMR seems to have taken a back seat btw, I think it's been frightened off ha ha. I cannot speak highly enough of the Doctor, nurses and radiographers who attended me in A and E at the local hospital, for their kindness, care and efficiency. Tell you what, it's amazing what you can achieve with 1 hand and your teeth!!
Hope you are all soaking up this glorious sunshine, and having a pain free day.
Cheers,
Molly.
Hi Mollycoo - welcome to the school of hard falls! Just hope this is one thing that doesn't run in 3s :wink: - though mine isn't a broken bone, two torn cruciate ligaments :cry: . I can't drive either but I don't know how long for - it's the clutch leg that's in the brace so it wouldn't bend enough to get onto the pedal. I need it for 6 weeks too but get to bend it more after 2 weeks and then gradually more and more if all goes well with the healing. That's actually the worst bit - can't walk far on it either so am dependent on himself. Then he parks ha;fway across the carpark :roll:
Since your Dexa scan 2 months ago was normal they can't say anything about you not taking AA - had you broken the wrist and then they had done a dexa and found you did have osteoporosis (and that is how most women discover they have it) they might have had some grounds. As it is - no reason for AA at all, it wouldn't have made any difference!
I'm just envisaging you using your teeth to pull up your jeans - but somehow it doesn't quite work! Which arm? As long as you can still lift a wine glass it'll be fine. Hope it doesn't hurt too much - torn ligamnets don't hurt like pulled ones do which is something - it's just finding a comfortable position in bed that's a problem. And I just sussed out hair-washing and half a shower in our bathroom - really not keen on removing the brace to stand int he shower with such a wobbly knee!
Get well soon!
EileenH
Hi Eileen,
so sorry you are in the wars too. It's a damn nuisance isn't it when you're used to being active and independent. I hope you are much better very soon. I'm actually not in that much pain. Had more pain with PMR and I have to say migraine, which I'm not getting at the moment of course.
Feel a bit of an invalid though, my daughter is coming at noon to take me and the dog for a walk ha ha. She doesn't pull on the lead but I've lost my confidence a bit walking, and haven't been out with her on my own yet. Don't want to break the other wrist----really in trouble then!!
Here's hoping we both recover really quickly. Has your fall upset the PMR at all?
Cheerio,
Molly.
I don't think so, strangely. I felt quite rough the day after in the late afternoon - wasn't hungry and - even more worrying, didn't fancy wine either! :roll: :lol: That was the day I don't take any steroids so I did wonder if I should have taken a bit more. However, yesterday was OK, I've just reduced the dose by half a mg a time and had the occassional twinge in the upper arms anyway but that seems to be settling despite the knee. I actually felt amazingly OK the day I fell - really got the impression the adrenaline rush that is normal had functioned to cope with the accident! Then I felt the bruises the next day - I did come quite a cropper so it wasn't surprising! :roll: As you say - PMR puts other pain into perspective if you ask me!
PITA (pain in the ...) - we'd probably have been heading over to the UK for a week or two but stairs don't appeal (at daughter no 1), I can't face here to there with him driving :wink: :roll: and I have an appt in about a week to get the hinge on the brace adjusted and a check up in just over 3 weeks to see how the knee is doing. Nor would getting the caravan out at Lake Garda be that simple - got to get in and out of the van and the restaurants are all a good walk at our usual site. Maybe I should look online for one that is open with restaurants onsite/at the gate - do know of a couple. Our balcony is pretty good and the weather at present is unbelievable - though it is to get colder again on Weds but not for as long as in the north of Europe.
Mind you don't fall over the dog though!
Eileen
Oh dear Mollycoo, what rotten luck - was that in sympathy with poor Eileen as well?! 
It's good news that you only recently had that DEXA scan and can therefore prove to any persuasive medics that you really DO NOT need AA as the break was not caused by osteoporosis.
I had a couple of falls in the early days of PMR when the legs just didn't want to perform! After 2 years I still have the red area on the knee that took the worst and that knee does let me down sometimes. At the time the hospital thought I may have fractured a finger so did an X-ray but, guess what, there wasn't any sign of a recent fracture but only an old one! I then remembered that I'd had a fall some 10 years previously and although my fingers were strapped together at the hospital they hadn't done an X-ray so didn't know about the break! :roll:
It's great to hear that you received such good care Molly and, hopefully, if we manage to have good weather still when the plaster comes off, the warmth will help with the continued healing.
Eileen - love the idea of your half a shower.....the mind boggles. But I don't blame you for not risking taking the brace off to stand in there for a full one!
Chins up both of you. 
MrsO,
thanks for your reply and good wishes. I'm not going to let this get me down, it's a nuisance, but as I say, I've had much more pain with the PMR from time to time, and I feel better PMR wise now, than I have for some time strangely enough. I'm happy, cross with myself, but happy. My dog is back to full health now thank goodness. I prefer a broken wrist to a poorly dog!!
So glad Adrian is much better btw. My Adrian and family are coming up for Easter, so that's something to look forward to.
This typing with one hand is a lengthy business!!
Cheerio,
Molly.
Hope it's all better soon, Molly..............and I agree, it's somehow much easier to cope if it is yourself rather than another family member or a pet.
This weather we are having makes everything seem easier somehow. There's no doubt about the effect warmer weather and longer days have on us all...........I believe we've got one more day of it.
Nefret
Thanks Nefret,
yes weather changing after tomorrow I think. Had a lovely walk today(managed to keep vertical) my daughter who's fair skinned was quite red when we got home !!
Cheerio,
Molly.
Hi Molly & Eileen....sorry to hear you have both been in the wars, and as for Eileen's aversion to wine.....definately a cause for concern :shock: :lol: :wink: ....hope its not \"cyber contagious\" 8)
I am glued to the golf on Tv at present and hoping that Rory McIlroy holds his young head and gets that green jacket.
Hope everyone had a lovely weeek-end...weather was great here.
Love, Pauline.
I've been glued,too. What a collected young man even when he must have been so disappointed. He'll be back.
Molly and Eileen, you really must stand up straight. All this falling about will not do at all. :shock:
My neighbour was telling me all about bathing with a broken ankle. Apparently you just hook the leg with the cast over the edge of the bath!!! I've tried to imagine how he does it. Do you get into an empty bath and, when settled, turn on the taps or do you fill the bath and sort of flump down into it?
What ARE magic are the wonderful inflatable boots that replace the early cast and almost give you a life back. He's back to walking his dogs again and can even ride his bike.
So glad your dog is OK again.
I think you're right about the adrenaline, Eileen. The day I spent at the dentist was my best PMR day for months. Perspective, as you say. Hope you are both more comfortable very soon.
Thanks BettyE,
I really must try and do better. I don't usually go around falling all over the place. Managed to stay upright during the icy weather, and then go and do this. Ah well---such is life!!
Best wishes,
Molly.
Well - at least we are in good company with falling over judging by the news about Kim Cljisters. At least I don't think either of us was dancing on a table :wink: :roll: On the other hand - we don't need to earn our living by using our limbs like she does! Silly girl - I was looking forward to watching her at the French Open, she is so elegant and doesn't grunt!
And yes - poor Rory. Guess it was pre-programmed though. Do you remember the Frenchman who lost it on the final approach to the 18th? Carnoustie wasn't it? I remember waiting a bit and deciding it wasn't going to be finished before going to Evensong - and lo and behold it was still going on when I got back! And I had a 20 min drive each way!
Eileen
Yes she's dislocated her ankle hasn't she? Oh dear.
Molly.
So sorry to hear about your fall...... after Eileen H too so hope there isn't a third waiting to happen :?
You take care and let others take you for walks!!!! Love that image :lol: :lol:
Fiftiesgirl,
thank you. Actually my daughter's calling later on this evening to take the dog and myself for \"walkies\"---what a state to be in!!
Cheers,
Molly.
Hi all,
spent 4 hrs at the local hospital's fracture clinic today. Down to X ray twice and a new plaster, in a very fetching shade of blue. Doctor said I'm borderline for having surgery to fix the wrist, we're seeing what it looks like next Thursday, when a decision will be made. They did go banging on about AA. I knew they would, I absolutely knew it-----hells bells!!!!!
PMR behaving very well btw, so must be thankful for that I suppose.
Hope everyone's having a good PMR day too.
Molly.
Hi MollyCoo,
Did they not have any nice \"girly\" pink ???.
I am on the AA, because I had osteoporosis in my spine for a couple of years before I ever developed the PMR...but sometimes I \"Forget\" to take it :shock:....I just HATE drinking that cold water and waiting half an hour for my brekky as I'm always hungry when I wake up:!: :!: .
That said, no-one in my family has EVER broken a bone, apart from my Mum, when my darling hubby (accidentally) dropped something heavy on her foot .....so I'm not at all sure that I am at risk.
Neighbours of ours have all broken bones at some stage over the past few years, and none of them have osteoporosis, so I feel it is more likely that some families are more pre-dispoed to fractures than others regardless of their \"Bone Density\"....but that could just be me being optomistic :roll:
Will try to keep upright....just in case :!: :!:
Love to all, Pauline.
Hi Pauline,
I had a choice between red blue pink and purple :lol:
Cheers,
Molly.
Wow - I'm really impressed by the NHS colour choice, who would have thought it! Years ago I can remember if a friend had a cast we all used to draw on it or leave our autographs :D :D
I am seriously impressed with your ability to use the computer - I had real problems a year or so back when I sprained my wrist - no capitals amongst other things.
Sorry about AA raising its ugly head so to speak! As you may have read I've been having problems with teeth and AA (if or when I have extractions) but my GP who also works in the rheumatology dept of hospital says there's too much exaggeration about its downside, a broken hip is much worse! Don't know who to believe do we? But, apart from everything else, that horrid taking it with just water, nothing else, etc etc. is a real turn off!
So lots of sympathy, at least the PMR seems stable still I hope. GG
Shouldn't it have been purple - with a red hat? :lol:
But your dexa scan was normal - so the AA wouldn't actually have made a difference at present! My granddaughter (11) broke her wrist a few weeks ago falling on it whilst skating. My cousin-in-law (56-ish) broke her wrist skiing a few years ago but the dexa scan showed normal bone density so AA didn't get a mention. Pauline has a justification for having to take it but otherwise - please!
EileenH