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Hunt & Peck
This will be brief as I am typing with my left hand. I probably should have been a lefty all along, of course, and would have been if only there had been one more pair of green-handled scissors in my kindergarten class. Friday, about 3 a.m., I woke up to the worst pain I have ever known and found that I coundn't move my right arm. Full stop. By Sunday morning, I was going out of my skull. I went to the doctor. She thought that I may have dislocated my arm and sent me to the מוקד לרפואה דחופה moked which is like the ER staffed with specialists. I was promptly dispatched to orthopedics, the to x-ray and then, back for treatment. Twenty minutes after the x-ray upstairs, I was admiring how photogenic I am on the inside. The doctor explained that the Strait of Gilbraltar was a big tear through a tendon in my right shoulder and that what looked ever so much like Australia was a continent of calcium. The combined result was pain. His temporary solution involved a very large needle and a drug called Diprospan. I would make a really bad drug addict. I left in a sling. My boss at the university asked me to come to work even if I am typing with just one hand. So, I am off!
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kmelion From: [info]kmelion Date: April 7th, 2008 09:19 am (UTC) (Link)
Where are you for Seder?
nir1 From: [info]nir1 Date: April 7th, 2008 07:19 pm (UTC) (Link)
תודה רבה רבה
I will be my old friend, Dina and her family in Rehovot this year.
nir1 From: [info]nir1 Date: April 7th, 2008 07:54 pm (UTC) (Link)

bad lefty

of course, I meant that I will be joining my friend,, Dina...
foucaultonacid From: [info]foucaultonacid Date: April 7th, 2008 01:12 pm (UTC) (Link)
you left in a sling? how could you walk and what did they do to yr... oh, a sling for your arm.... yes, of course....

what is the sound of one itai typing?

if a tendon causes a continental shift but there are no neocons to taunt the french, does the xray show it?

and if geoff could, he would. tea. coffee. pineapple juice (did it work?) and lots of love
nir1 From: [info]nir1 Date: April 7th, 2008 07:26 pm (UTC) (Link)

slings and arrows of outrageous fortune

Thanks, dear! I don't know if the pineapple juice helped although it has now become something of a three-liter a week addiction (because I am still exercising a modicum of self-control and not just guzzling that nectar of the gods).
jucundushomo From: [info]jucundushomo Date: April 7th, 2008 07:06 pm (UTC) (Link)
Get well, Itai! How soon will you be hale and hearty again?
nir1 From: [info]nir1 Date: April 7th, 2008 07:47 pm (UTC) (Link)
Gratia! Truthfully, I'm feeling a bit like Nathan Hale on 23 September 1776, but I'm plenty hearty already! A torn rotator cuff isn't too exotic. I originally injured myself while diving in Acapulco in summer 2000.
white_and_blue From: [info]white_and_blue Date: April 7th, 2008 11:21 pm (UTC) (Link)
What's your full Hebrew name? I'd like to start davening for you regularly.
nir1 From: [info]nir1 Date: April 7th, 2008 11:56 pm (UTC) (Link)

איתי ניר בן יוסף ולאה

Thanks, Aliza! I'd really appreciate that. A month ago I had surgery for cancer. I have had a lung infection for two weeks and now, this. I'm feeling like I'm falling apart. Yikes!

bikelovejones From: [info]bikelovejones Date: April 8th, 2008 02:33 pm (UTC) (Link)
What you call hunt and peck I call the Columbus Method (seek and ye shall find...).

So glad to hear that the other thing was benign!
..::claps and whistles::..

Speaking from personal experience: Be really good to your slung arm and patiently follow the doc's orders. And if there's phyz therapy later on, do it!
When I broke my hand in '97, I was off my bike for months. I did a LOT of walking. You've already got this down so you're ahead of the game.
NO CHEATING at the typewriter, either!
I'll be thinking great big healing thoughts for your arm!
Much, much love, B
wicked_danu From: [info]wicked_danu Date: April 8th, 2008 11:50 pm (UTC) (Link)
I hope you feel as good as new soon.
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