Chey’s Lounge

Just kidding. I haven’t landed anywhere. I’m still lost in the sauce, floating in the space, cloudy with a chance of meatballs. My wrist kinda hurts lately. I had surgery on it a few years ago, but I actually think it’s mostly what they couldn’t address during the surgery that has had lasting effects. The very tip of my right ulnar chipped off. I’m not sure if I would’ve been so confident there were fractures if it wasn’t for that one. Maybe since that was so easy to see, they just were like okay, orthopedic surgeon. If it wasn’t, I wonder if they would’ve seen that there were other fractures or if I would’ve needed to wait for an MRI to know if there was any damage. 

Okay, so back to the bone chip. Before the surgery, the doctor said he’d probably put a pin in that spot. Once he got in there, though, it turned out to be too small, so he just sorta left it. I feel like it healed ever so slightly incorrectly, and it bothers me occasionally. I did 6 months of occupational therapy 3 times a week to get the range of motion to be basically acceptable enough. That aspect of it doesn’t really hurt; sometimes it feels tight, but it isn’t like painful. I’d truly rather eat a bowl of male inmate toenail clippings than try to figure out if there’s something that could be fixed. I think probably not, and I’ll just have a little (hopefully) pain occasionally for the rest of my days. Who knows, though? Maybe one day there will be something that fixes all that mess.