I wiped out yesterday and fell and broke my left arm. Question! (hair, yoga)
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My dad used to have a saying "It's hell getting old!" He said this in his Spanish accent, which added to the whole drama of it all. Yeah, I am 73 this month, and all the big problems for me started right when I turned 70. Trying hard to keep positive. I am sure you feel that yourself. We are due for some good things for sure!
We never thought we were old until DH tripped over something in the middle of the night and ended up in hospital with some broken things.
Since then we have tried to be super aware of things that could go wrong in future and installed more grab bars, some at the beginning and ends of stairs, and ditched the throw rugs (well, most of them, anyway), and tried to think before we do silly things like carrying an armload of stuff so big we can't see where we're going, and always carry our phones if we're going out without each other.
All you can do is do the things people keep ranting about online and elsewhere, and hope most of them work. (Hope you're doing better by now, KA)
Update: Out of the sling for the most part and my arm is weaker and still hurts but not badly if that makes sense. Going back to the doctor in a few weeks. It was a long fracture, not a complete break in two so I think things are going well. We'll see, I guess!
Oh good, start using it as you can to build back the muscle. We atrophy so darned fast, but, it takes a long time to recover. Kind of like how easy it is to gain weight and how hard it is to lose weight.
Oh good, start using it as you can to build back the muscle. We atrophy so darned fast, but, it takes a long time to recover. Kind of like how easy it is to gain weight and how hard it is to lose weight.
Haha, good analogy! I am starting to move first my elbow and now my shoulder as well. So far so good.
The really really weird thing about all this is that the night before I fell, alone in my house, I had a very vivid dream that I was saying "Alexa, call 9-1-1. Alexa. Call 9-1-1." I didn't actually say that but I thought it was weird that 1) I am not afraid to be alone but 2) my subconscious was apparently trying to let me know that I'd be OK no matter what happens. It was like it was trying to prepare me for a semi catastrophe that was coming.
My, my, my. So you had ruptured your achilles tendon & I don't know the cause or how long ago that was. Now your arm too!
Now, I've never broken a limb, but I'm seeing that once you're in your 40s, things do seem to start happening.
Maybe that's how it's happening for her.
For me, I broke my arm when I was 10 by skipping across the street to the school bus stop and slipping on the ONLY patch of ice on the road.
Then, when I was 20, I was in a crash (I was a passenger) and broke my left femur, left radius and ulna, clavicle, two ribs, had spinal trauma, jarred my upper front teeth loose, and had multiple bruises on the left side of my body.
By age 30 I had developed degenerative disk disease from the crash 10 years prior.
Fast forward - I'm 61 and will likely need a hip replacement next year. But I haven't broken a bone since. I do have osteoporosis, osteoarthritis, another disk is disintegrating on my spine, and had to have my third and last cortisone shot for the hip a few months ago. I'm not allowed to ever have another one (which is why the next stop is hip replacement - I'm bone on bone).
I've become MORE graceful than I was when I was a kid. My balance has improved, I can stand on one foot almost indefinitely, I can still sit cross-legged, I can still do a cartwheel, and I know more dance moves now than I did when I was a latin hustle competitor in the late 1970's.
My secret: after the accident the doctor told me I'd be in a wheelchair by the time I was 40. I set out to prove him wrong. I embraced this mantra: move until you can't. I'm still moving.
For me, I broke my arm when I was 10 by skipping across the street to the school bus stop and slipping on the ONLY patch of ice on the road.
Then, when I was 20, I was in a crash (I was a passenger) and broke my left femur, left radius and ulna, clavicle, two ribs, had spinal trauma, jarred my upper front teeth loose, and had multiple bruises on the left side of my body.
By age 30 I had developed degenerative disk disease from the crash 10 years prior.
Fast forward - I'm 61 and will likely need a hip replacement next year. But I haven't broken a bone since. I do have osteoporosis, osteoarthritis, another disk is disintegrating on my spine, and had to have my third and last cortisone shot for the hip a few months ago. I'm not allowed to ever have another one (which is why the next stop is hip replacement - I'm bone on bone).
I've become MORE graceful than I was when I was a kid. My balance has improved, I can stand on one foot almost indefinitely, I can still sit cross-legged, I can still do a cartwheel, and I know more dance moves now than I did when I was a latin hustle competitor in the late 1970's.
My secret: after the accident the doctor told me I'd be in a wheelchair by the time I was 40. I set out to prove him wrong. I embraced this mantra: move until you can't. I'm still moving.
This is very encouraging to me. I too have degenerative disc disease. Have almost the same issues as you. As I posted previously I broke my patella and it is the most horrible debilitating thing ever. I have a long road back. But I really want to do my long walks and dance again so I cling to hope. There are days I think I can't make it. Strange for me, because I am always the "forever optimist".
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