Sandra had her last surgery yesterday: the doctor reset a broken bone in her right wrist, along with some misaligned cartilage. She postponed this surgery until she could use her left hand more normally. Imagine not being able to hold anything in either hand!
Surgery was about two hours...and was successful, but what they didn't tell her was she'd have to deal with a totally numb and unusable arm for at least 16 hours, until the nerve block drugs wore off. She couldn't feel ANYTHING from the shoulder down, nothing on that arm worked. Ther arm was protected by a sling, but the numbness meant she couldn't use the arm for standing, sitting, eating, anything.
She said, its like holding a 30-pound baby, that you can't feel or move. The numbness was super freaky because there was no feeling in it, touching her own fingers felt like touching someone else's hand, or an alien hand (verbatim). That was the worst part about the surgery (in my opinion, not hers, see below), not being able to move like she had been, doing more and more "normal" things, and it was terribly frustrating for her.
PS: Sandra says the not moving wasn't the worst, the worst was trying to alleviate the pain once the nerve block wore off at 3.30am this morning; it took almost 12 hours and a lot of pain drugs to make the pain subside.
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