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Don't be surprised if the wrist injury is there for a long time.

I was heading to a flight and had a stuffed suitcase for the long trip. Went to lift is on the scale at the counter and misjudged the height. Wrenched my left wrist in the wrong direction and the pain stuck around for months. Hopefully your recovery is much faster. ;)
 
Ouch, where's those UNDO buttons ??? That would be great to be able to go back just a few seconds !

And thanks, I am hoping it doesn't linger too long. I was in our basement yesterday bracing up the floor boards that the previous owners cut through to put in a heating vent, they didn't seem to care what boards they cut through! I just noticed that one end of a board that goes up against the vent had dropped down at an angle, wasn't that way always or I would have noticed it.

So, I took a hardwood 2x3 board I had and to get the angle of the cuts as best I could, I put a nail in both sides where I wanted the board to stretch across the joists and give some support to the dangling floor boards. Between the nails I ran a small cord and used sliding bevel gauge to get the angle needed and then transferred that onto the ends of the board. The result, perfectly matched angles on both sides, worked out well, BUT as I was trying to hoist the board around in that small area, it tilted and fell and I grabbed it with my 'left hand' and the injury made it self known again, vividly ;) But, just glad to get the brace in place!
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I had a fall in late march in my yard. I fell against my brick house wall. A week later I had the beginnng of a bleeding brain stroke. It took severak days to manifest itself.
On april fool's day it started and by april third, things got serious, I saw my doctor and had a cat scan, and blood test. On wednesday I hobbled into the er at my hospital.
I was checked in and had a dye injection and a cat scan again and then an mri.
I slowly lost full use of my right arm and right leg. I was showed a pic of my brain scan (it was really there much to the surprise of my friends) of two neurons with bleeding traces on the left side.
SO get it checked out!!
I am on the mend now 2 + months later. I walk like frankenstein and can feed myself with my right hand. Forget using hand tools yet, but am hopeful I will return to normal in a month or two.
GOOD LUCK!!!
 
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Wow that’s a terrible event!
I will be seeing a doctor soon as I don’t have a primary care doctor yet and my wife has been pressing me to get my ankle fixed, 8 years ago I broke my ankle and have a plate and 13 screws in it and it has never worked right
Thanks for sharing and I hope that you are doing better?
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I am getting stroke recovery therapy and have about a month left at this time of physical therapy (walking) and occupational therapy (use of hands and eye hand coordination.)
p.s. I turned 70 last year so my age has some to figure in all of this.
I also had trouble using a mouse until recently.
 
Thanks Win, and it was a surprise, as most of them are I guess :). But my right hand is doing much better, my left knee squawks from time to time though...
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Glad to hear everyone is on the mend.
I wiped out on my bicycle a few years ago and really jammed my wrist, sleeping with a wrist brace made a huge difference. According to my doctor, you bend your wrist in strange ways when you sleep.
 
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Glad to hear everyone is on the mend.
I wiped out on my bicycle a few years ago and really jammed my wrist, sleeping with a wrist brace made a huge difference. According to my doctor, you bend your wrist in strange ways when you sleep.
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Yeah my wife has been wearing one for quite a while and says it definitely helps.

Glad things are getting better Gary!
 
Thanks guys, while it's still healing, I was doing some 'repairs' to our small shed. The doors to the front have rotted sections across the top and along the bottom. My neighbor just got a big stack of cedar boards about 5 1/2" wide and varied in length and he said I was free to use what I needed from that stack of wood. So, I took the top section first, cut across to get rid of the rotten area and put in two pieces of the cedar. Now removing things using a claw hammer I found that my right wrist, the 'bad' one REALLY did not like the impact that vibrated back down the hammer's handle!!! and while I can do a lot with my left hand, hammering is not one of them :) so after attempting to use the hammer my wrist needed to recoup a bit more, so ice and wrap were the two as well as some motrin.

The second day I realized that the lower parts of the two doors I would not be able to do while they were hanging, so, I took each one off and used a circular saw to trim off the bad sections and even up the border panels and proceeded to insert the cedar planks. All told it doesn't look half bad...maybe half good lol but it is better.

Then I thought, hmm an awning would be handy, to keep the rain from the doors a bit, so I worked on that today, just a narrow board across the two doors screwed into a strip of pressure treated board with a 25 degree angle and the boards were at the 5" wide, had to make lap joints to get a section wide enough to span the 55" across, and then used some silicon sealant to cover the top sections to prevent water from getting things soaked. One last bit will be to paint it, fortunately my wife loves painting, while I tolerate it, I'm just not interested in it and the end results of anything I paint proves that point very clearly ;)

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Thanks guys, while it's still healing, I was doing some 'repairs' to our small shed. The doors to the front have rotted sections across the top and along the bottom. My neighbor just got a big stack of cedar boards about 5 1/2" wide and varied in length and he said I was free to use what I needed from that stack of wood. So, I took the top section first, cut across to get rid of the rotten area and put in two pieces of the cedar. Now removing things using a claw hammer I found that my right wrist, the 'bad' one REALLY did not like the impact that vibrated back down the hammer's handle!!! and while I can do a lot with my left hand, hammering is not one of them :) so after attempting to use the hammer my wrist needed to recoup a bit more, so ice and wrap were the two as well as some motrin.

The second day I realized that the lower parts of the two doors I would not be able to do while they were hanging, so, I took each one off and used a circular saw to trim off the bad sections and even up the border panels and proceeded to insert the cedar planks. All told it doesn't look half bad...maybe half good lol but it is better.

Then I thought, hmm an awning would be handy, to keep the rain from the doors a bit, so I worked on that today, just a narrow board across the two doors screwed into a strip of pressure treated board with a 25 degree angle and the boards were at the 5" wide, had to make lap joints to get a section wide enough to span the 55" across, and then used some silicon sealant to cover the top sections to prevent water from getting things soaked. One last bit will be to paint it, fortunately my wife loves painting, while I tolerate it, I'm just not interested in it and the end results of anything I paint proves that point very clearly ;)

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You wouldn't happent to live in South Florida? I'd be happy to come by and help.

Give the wrist plenty of rest. Wear the brace, especially as night. They really do help.
 
Appreciate the offer Billy but way up north and Ray, yep, patience is a virtue that I never quite picked up, my wife says I am the most impatient man she's ever met, go figure lol...
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I don’t care for painting either. A small project I can tolerate but a large one is drudgery to me.

I’d be careful for quite a while Gary. I have a damaged rotator cuff and just about the time it quits hurting, I overextend or pull it the wrong way because I forget to baby it. But it’s getting better slowly.
 
Thanks for the tip, I was hammering today with a small hand sledge and a cold chisel on some pavement along the entrance of our garage and it didn't come back with the severe pain I felt before trying to hammer in a regular nail with a regular hammer so it's doing much better for sure!
Haven't tried going to Panera's yet, that'll be the real test ;)
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