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jubilant · ‎06-10-2010

Glad to hear you are coming along so well. Yes, you sure do appreciate everything that works once it doesn't! Keep up the good work. All that rehab will pay off!

sfnative · ‎03-10-2010

@qualitygal wrote:
Just updating, if you read that I fell in my hallway Oct 9. Both casts are off now. I'm into therapy for my hand, and my arm is doing good too. It'll probably be a year for things to be more of what I want them to be. But I have a good therapist working with these old bones. Thank goodness no surgery. That really worried me at first. I'm working like a dog and doing all at-home exercises I am to do. Some 5 x's a day, hand ones, 3 x's.

When something like not being able to drive, or tend to your own hair, or even holding your little dog are not able to be done, you realize the drive to get back to what you took for granted before.

So old bones can mend.

@qualitygal

Am so sorry to have missed your post when your fall occurred. How pleased you must be to perhaps seeing a light at the end of a tunnel.

Things like not being able to drive, personal care, typing, holding your little dog, and for me baking Christmas cookies and just cooking in general, are huge losses. You've sure been through the mill. I sincerely hope that with each week functionality increases and that your life returns to normal.

(4 weeks ago, I injured my dominant wrist and hand. Because it didn't qualify as a "traumatic injury," as in a fall or auto accident, I've yet to be seen by a specialist. Cannot believe the pain and swelling and inability to perform tasks. Today 1st day able to type using 3 fingers of my right hand. Ridiculous. Will finally see hand doc on the 16th...)

qualitygal · ‎10-04-2010

@sfnative, I'm finally back to crocheting!! I couldn't do it for 2 mos. Thanks though, and I sure hope yours heals well too. I'll do exercises to help out for some time yet. Oh well, it beats not being able to use your hands and arms properly. I'm not driving yet, I need to get more strength back into my arm. I want to do that properly and safely.

sfnative · ‎03-10-2010

@qualitygal wrote:
@sfnative, I'm finally back to crocheting!! I couldn't do it for 2 mos. Thanks though, and I sure hope yours heals well too. I'll do exercises to help out for some time yet. Oh well, it beats not being able to use your hands and arms properly. I'm not driving yet, I need to get more strength back into my arm. I want to do that properly and safely.

@qualitygal

QualityGal -

Oh, man, I'm so jealous that you're back to crocheting! It sounds as though you may had has fractures that have or are continuing to heal? I so wish I had simply fractured the distal radius like everyone else. Instead, my injury would probably cause you fits of laughter. Suffice to say, it was a huge stretch injury day after Thanksgiving. Lost 9 crochet commissions (have a small crochet business) and had to drop everything I was making for family - some neat Game of Thrones, Baby Groot, Star Wars and on...

Hope you're able to drive soon. I finally got some grip back, so just started driving. It was necessary for my sanity. Missed my independence (cannot have that husband person everywhere I go).

You're going to do well rehabing at home, as that's just the kind of person you are. All the best toward a full recovery in 2019. ~ Rebecca

qualitygal · ‎10-04-2010

I had to rest my hand so here I am. LOL @sfnative, so sorry to hear that for you. I'm gaining on the muscles I need to strengthen them.

I have to decide what I want to do next for the Senior Center (to donate) sewing group. I finally went back last week, only to find out they weren't meeting, LOL Oh well, there's next week.

For us, I've decided to do a granny square blanket. I have so much yarn I've been dying to get my hands on so I'll have a sampling of each color (lots of them) making up the squares, thus, the blanket.

We're having rain again today, and I pictured crocheting while it snowed out, but guess what, I can crochet even if it rains. LOL

Hope you're better soon. Keep working towards it. Best of luck on the healing too.

sfnative · ‎03-10-2010

@qualitygal

A Granny Square blanket or afghan is a great stash buster for sure. You could probably do various squares from memory with your experience. However, have you seen some of the new - contemporary - takes on granny square blankets and afghans? Out of sight!

I've simply got to find a place like the one you go to where I can sit and crochet with other people. Tried a few here when we first arrived a few years ago. Was told outright (Scandanavian forwardness) that I was too old! What?! Rude for sure. Still haven't found a group. You've inspired me to continue the quest, once my darn ligaments and tendons are healed.

qualitygal · ‎10-04-2010

You might consider a small group that could meet at your library. Sometimes libraries love to say they have a little sewing group that meets there. Worth a shot when you mend.