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Broke my right wrist, the good arm. Any ideas how long this breakage goes on?

Sorry to hear that. Fast recovery!
Enjoy music. Seems you have plenty of time for it now.
 
Doodski said:
Me too. Getting my pants on, tying shoes, using my belt etc is tricky. It is difficult getting the thumb to the cell tel for login but after several attempts it usually logs in...lol.
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sweat pants and slippers ( or crocs ) :) Hope you get better soon
 
:facepalm::facepalm::facepalm:

Please keep resting your arm until your pain goes down, and enjoy relaxing/healing music.

Then I would like to suggest you to consider getting "second (and third)" professional medical opinion based on enough imaging studies (X-ray, CT and/or MRI) for further treatments (or surgery, if needed) for early recovery. (Shohei OTANI is getting opinions from six or more top medical specialists.)
 
Doodski said:
~9pm on the 15th I broke my wrist when I tripped on something behind me and extended my arm to block the fall.
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With all the sympathy your getting here, maybe you should start a go-fund-me thing. :p
 
dasdoing said:
whish a fast recovery.

when you are back 100% take some grappling lessons, knowing how to fall is a skill that becomes more and more useful the older we get. many old people actually die falling
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Yes, fully agree!

When I was highschool student, we had once-in-a-month Judo lessons where almost all the beginner training was "how to take a fall" which saved me a lot afterwards when I was in a fall during soccer games, skiing and even during playing tennis.;)
 
Nasty business!!

I hope this early more acute discomfort passes quickly into what will just be more of an annoyance until the cast comes off.

I had a 'Colles Fracture' of my right wrist during a pretty thrilling toboggan ride many years ago. I will never forget the process of it being set, where they stuck my fingers into these Chinese finger trap things that held my arm up with a 90 degree angle between my forearm and my upper arm (think when you put up your hand to swear on a Bible), turn they put a strap around my bicep which they hung weights from until the bones were pulled down enough to be free, then physically manipulated it to line it up as they removed the weights. I was in a full cast for 6 weeks, when they found out hadn't quite healed so I went back into a short arm cast for another month.

I learned to write pretty well with my left hand, so there was a good side to it.

It will be behind you soon enough, but I'm sorry you have to deal with this. As you say, it's no joke when you live alone.
 
Dualazmak gives excellent advice for all of us. I learned “tuck and roll” taking martial arts as a teen. That technique has saved me from serious injury a number of times.
 
Not saying that this martial arts advice isn't relevant but as Doodski fell backwards, not so relevant. Also, I know he's had his share of spills on motorcycles, so is already aware of these things!
 
Ken1951 said:
Best wishes for a speedy recovery and a reduction of pain. My periodontist swore by the combination of 3 Ibuprofen and 2 extra-strength Tylenol taken together. And speaking from experience from loads of big-time dental work, shoulder surgery, and knee surgery it works. Again, heal fast!
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The Tylenol and Advil do seem to take the edge off... :D
 
Rottmannash said:
the incision
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They never performed surgery. They gave me fentanyl, put me to sleep and I woke with a cast. I don't think I would have taken them setting it without sedation. It hurt a lot at the time.
 
LTig said:
Sorry to hear this. Try to get advice from a physician working in professional sports. They know best how to bring your former health back as fast as possible. Main thing is to move the hurt parts (first passive, then active) as soon as possible to reduce the recovering time.
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I've already started wiggling my fingers often to keep them moving. It doesn't hurt that bad surprisingly but small movement only.
 
dasdoing said:
whish a fast recovery.

when you are back 100% take some grappling lessons, knowing how to fall is a skill that becomes more and more useful the older we get. many old people actually die falling
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I am surprised I never did a judo fall because that would have avoided this. But I was falling backwards and turned to the fall and everything was messed up alignment wise.
 
BDWoody said:
I will never forget the process of it being set, where they stuck my fingers into these Chinese finger trap things that held my arm up with a 90 degree angle between my forearm and my upper arm (think when you put up your hand to swear on a Bible), turn they put a strap around my bicep which they hung weights from until the bones were pulled down enough to be free, then physically manipulated it to line it up as they removed the weights. I was in a full cast for 6 weeks, when they found out hadn't quite healed so I went back into a short arm cast for another month.
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WoW! I hope you received pain relief for that procedure.
BDWoody said:
It will be behind you soon enough, but I'm sorry you have to deal with this. As you say, it's no joke when you live alone.
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Yes, I'm playing the short but long game strategy on this one. I'm learning pretty fast to make due.
 
Speedy recovery to you, buddy!
I was going to give a dislike to your post because what happened to you truly SUCKs!:mad:

I only have one word for you (from my many previous self-induced 'accidents'):
FIDGET!
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TL&DR part: And never stop FIDGETing, especially if broken bones are immobilized for the healing process.
You We be no spring chickens and that means that the first thing that immediately starts happening is muscle-deterioration, in a hurry.:eek:
Older you we are; the longer that muscle-rebuilding process takes, and in most cases [imo] never gets you us back to pre-injury state.
Yeah, PhysicalTherapy (PT) is a thing but that is so far down-stream during mending/healing period..., which makes full recovery -post muscle-atrophy- nigh impossible!

Some may call it 'isometrics' but I was able to skip most of prescribed PT in at least four serious injury related accidents to the chagrin of my doctors and PT specialists!
 
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