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It's been four weeks since I broke my arm.  I thought I'd be a lot better by now.  I guess I am but not as better as I'd like to be.

I was at work when this happened.  I was coming out of a patients room, trying to step over visitors and all of their stuff on the floor, when I realized my foot was caught in the vital machine cord.  I took a quick hop with my free foot (since I was already straddling the "stuff") thinking I could somehow get my back foot free.  No such luck.  I was airborne when I went down.  My hands landed first.  I knew I would probably break something when I landed but I didn't have much choice.  It was either my hands or my face.  When I landed, the noise was so loud that my other co-workers heard it and came running.  I felt quite a bit of pain but I could still move my wrists so I thought the pain would soon subside.  No one in the patients room said a word.  Not even a "are you alright?".  I guess they were too busy taking a picture with their cell phones to post on utube.  The pain didn't go away so I went to the ER and had Xrays and found that I had fractured my distal radius on my right arm. 

The fracture has been nothing compared to the sprained left arm and right wrist.  In the beginning it would take me one hour just to shower and get myself dried off.  Everything has been challenging.  Think about what you need your hands for.  Kelsey has been washing my hair and fixing it for me.  I can comb and kind of style it on off days but it isn't easy.  Cooking has been hard.  I empty the dishwasher one dish at a time.  My mom and my girls came and cleaned for me.  It was all kind of comical at first but now I'm just plain sick and tired of it all.  I want to be done with this.  I'm not a good patient.  It is baby steps and I can't measure it by days, I have to measure by weeks.  I am back at work.  Workman's comp and all of the paperwork is for the birds so I went back after taking a week off.  I can do most things, I just have a weight limit.  I am behaving because it hurts if I don't.