Tag: Bones

Mowing Bones

Today I finally was able to mow my hayfield, aka, my lawn. My mower wasn’t starting and I thought I needed a new battery. Turned out, it needed the magic touch of my favorite mechanic.

My hayfield had 4-5 of these large areas that were all flattened down. I’m thinking maybe bear.

Do you see it?

Any better now?

How about now? It’s my lupine that my great nephew dug up for me and I transplanted it last summer. It survived the winter!! I have two plants that are looking great.

It’s sooo beautiful.

Near my lupine are some daylilies. I didn’t think they were in bloom yet.

There’s so much hidden beauty in my hayfield. I call these wild violets, maybe they have a different name.

Look at my mowing wrist!! It didn’t bother at all!!

Some columbine.

My beautiful maples. And another, ‘do you see it?’

I think my maple has a big crack in it. I did a power prayer every time I went under this branch.


Matthew 6:28 And why do you worry about clothes? Learn how the wildflowers of the field grow: they don’t labor or spin thread.

Buttercups.

Daisies.

Rosebuds.

Some stew on the hoof.

Dandelion. I missed the flowers, guess I’m saving the bee’s!!

Matthew 6:30 And if God cares so wonderfully for wildflowers that are here today and thrown into the fire tomorrow, he will certainly care for you. Why do you have so little faith?

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Bone Up On Supinations

At today’s appointment, a new flavor of faux bees wax, vanilla muffin. Oh those faux bees!! At the last PT appointment she had asked if I thought I needed any more sessions. I was still scheduled for a few, and said, “maybe one more and go from there.”

I mainly wanted at least one more session because in my spare time, I made my wrist whisperer, my physical therapist, a makeup bag as a little thank you for getting my wrist back to cutting, sewing and quilting. My plan was to give it to her at the last session.

When I arrived today, I told her I was thinking this could be my last session because my wrist is feeling a lot better, so much so that I sometimes forget to do my wrist homework exercises. With that, she brought out all the toys, including the 5-pound weight!!

And the thera-p-bar. My biggest challenge.


Next, the measurements. Major improvements!! Notice my palm nearly face up!! Supination!!

Ezekiel 37:5 This is what the Lord GOD says to these bones: I will cause breath to enter you, and you will live (and bones will be healed.)

The last column are today’s scores. Up ten points, 50 to 60 for flexion. Up ten points from 65 to 75 for extension, which you might notice, is now 20 points better than my right wrist!! And another increase from 60 to 80 for supination.

Next, the grip. My first grip had been a whopping 2. The next grip after ten sessions was 18. Today, 25!!!

These measurements along with the questions of what I can do and/or still have problems with, I scored 97.8%!!! The only thing I still have a little problem with is opening jars like pickle jars. I’ll probably always have a problem with some jars and need my jar gripper thing anyway. So really, I’m 99.9% healed!!!

I’m sure some of the strength came from this torture bar. Today I did it without much problem at all. Yeahhh!! I did ask her once if my wrist case was the worst she’s seen and how my healing compares. Except for a thumb case, mine was probably the worst, and that I improved the most.

The next therapy putty with more resistance.

I smuggled in the thank you gift for her explaining that I know some places don’t let you keep gifts. She loved it adding that brown and pinks were her favorite color combinations.

Thank you ever so much for getting my wrist back to almost normal. I appreciate everything you did and all you taught me about supinations!! You are truly gifted.

Proverbs 3:8 It will be health to your body [your marrow, your nerves, your sinews, your muscles—all your inner parts] And refreshment (physical well-being) to your bones.


And a PS. The other day I opened this jar of Bread & Butters without much problem at all. A friend told me to hit the top of the jar four times with a knife handle so I did try that as an added assistant!! I think I’m back to normal!!

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I Feel it in my Bones

My homework weightlifting was definitely helping. I could feel it in my bones!! Not nearly as much pain as earlier in the process.

The next day I had to sew some feet back onto a duck before I could get started.

Quack, Quack.


Song of Songs 2:11-12 See! The winter is past; the rains are over and gone.

Three or four days later I headed out for another PT appointment. It was a beautiful spring day with all the greens coming into my maple trees.


12 Flowers appear on the earth; the season of singing has come, the cooing of doves is heard in our land. 

At the hospital, a lovely garden with tulips greeted me.

Another day, another graduation!! I did a minute with the three-pound weight and then she brought in a four-pound weight!!

Next, the twist bar. I had done this one before, but a lighter resistance. Today I was able to turn the ends to the center without any problems!! Another milestone. She also brought out the thera-p-bar, but I forgot to get a picture. It too was an improvement from the prior appointment.

Proverbs 3:8 It will be health to your body [your marrow, your nerves, your sinews, your muscles—all your inner parts] And refreshment (physical well-being) to your bones.

A week later, another PT appointment. First on the agenda, warm-up with the 3-pounder.

Then the 4-pounder. A couple minutes each exercise. Eight minutes.

The last exercise for the day, the thera-p-bar. It’s the one that’s only two-pounds, but it seems like twenty-two!! I did better today with it, I only had a little problem with one move. I’ll get it next week.

Ezekiel 37:5 This is what the Lord GOD says to these bones: I will cause breath to enter you, and you will live (and bones will be healed.)

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Bone Graduation

Today as I headed out to PT, we were having a mini Spring blizzard. I studied the online weather app to see what kind of snow it was. Anything close to freezing rain, AKA, slip & fall snow, I’d call and reschedule.

Inside I had a beautiful blossom on one of my geraniums.

I decided the weather wasn’t too bad and went to physical therapy where she graduated me to this Thera-P-Bar. Two-pounds. Like some of the other tools, two-pounds didn’t seem like much.

It nearly killed me!! Just two little pounds!! Maybe because it was about three feet long!! Maybe there was two pounds in each foot?!! Or twenty-two!!

The exercise started with the bar standing up. Then I had to control it as I turned my wrist palm down, to touch the top onto the table and then, again controlled, turning my wrist all the way to the left, palm up, and touching the end of the bar to the other end of the table.

I couldn’t even lift it!! It weighed a ton!!

Finally I managed to get one done!! One!! She was hoping for ten. Ended up I did seven. I think that was pretty good for a little old weakling.

Before the session was done, she brought out the 3-pound weight. It was almost light after the 2-pound torture wand. Next, she also graduated me to a medium therapy putty.

Proverbs 3:8 It will be health to your body [your marrow, your nerves, your sinews, your muscles—all your inner parts] And refreshment (physical well-being) to your bones.

A couple days later I had another appointment with my bone Doc. He was extremely pleased with my progress. He said the minimal pain I have from time to time will gradually go away. He also said the healing bone might work its way off and smooth out.

Bone Graduation

He turned my wrist in four or five directions and said if I was able to do my regular activities, I wouldn’t need surgery. He graduated me too!! I won’t need anymore appointments with him unless I’m having problems!!

Ezekiel 37:5 This is what the Lord GOD says to these bones: I will cause breath to enter you, and you will live (and bones will be healed.)

See what else has been happening to theses old bones.

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Bargello

I started this page, then changed my mind, then went back to it sew there’s a couple things I wrote about recently, but didn’t want to edit out for new followers.

We now have added, ‘Sew Days,’ to our Guild meeting schedule. Sew Days begin at 9:00 and go until the regular meeting at 1:00. You bring your own sewing machine, tools, project and sew away. Occasionally they sew on a group project, like the quilt raffle. Sometimes someone will teach a class. Today, a member was teaching the Bargello quilt. I decided to participate in the Bargello quilt.

I had missed the last two meetings because of all the ice in my driveway and not wanting to fall again. Sew, I didn’t know about the project until the minutes came out. One item in the minutes was about the Bargello and some home-sew-work. It listed amounts of fabric needed and some strips sets to cut, sew and press before class.

I had been sewing some after my fall, but my wrist was causing problems when I needed to cut strips. I had created the forearm hold to put enough pressure on my cutting tools to cut.

Today though, after PT, I tried putting pressure on my wrist/hand to do my strip cutting. It worked quite well without too much pain. It’s not 100%, but improving.

In the past I’ve posted about the store cuts. They rarely are cut straight. Here I lost almost 2” on one end.

For this Bargello, we need three-strip sets of 12-colors and one focus fabric. I had my dozen all selected, but at the house under more natural lighting, I didn’t like about three of them.


After getting about eight other fabrics to match, I still wasn’t overly pleased with about four of them. I eliminated the worst four and used the remaining four.

I finished cutting and made the three piles of the twelve strips. After a couple more PT sessions, the cutting was almost back to normal. Yeahhh!!!

Ready to sew. First time back at my machine in about a month.

Nice to see my pin cushion on my wrist instead of the brace!!

Sew, I double checked and packed my ‘have sewing machine will travel,’ with the Bargello project.


A bigger quilted bag to keep everything from flying around.

At the Guild for sew day, I set up and worked on sewing my three sets of 12-strips together.

I had to walk around and see what everyone was making. Here’s another Bargello.

Next, a Postage Stamp quilt. The cuts are 1 1/2” squares that finish at 1”. Two rows completed. It’s going to be a queen size quilt.

Two more projects.

Another Bargello.

Next up, a couple members laid out a mock-up of the Guild quilt raffle. It’s a Christmas Star pattern. Each member makes a square and then another sew day to finish sewing the rows together. We are waiting for a couple more star squares to come in. A few members will finish longarm quilting and binding it. Then we will start selling the raffle tickets.

As part of the business meeting, someone usually does a demonstration. Today’s demo was on paper piecing.

After the demo, the drawings for the quilting gambling, I won a bundle of fat quarters.

Exodus 35:25 All the skilled and talented women spun thread with their hands, and brought what they had spun, blue and purple and scarlet fabric and fine linen.

The meeting ends with ‘Sew & Tell.’ You’ll notice there are two more of the Bargello quilts that members made. Don’t you just love the dog that one lady added to her quilt? One is a Yo-Yo quilt, that the lady has made several for each of her grandchildren.

Everyone is sooo talented in the Quilt Guild!! They have wonderful projects and ideas, I want to add each quilt design to my ‘to-do’ list.

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These Bones Were Made for Cutting

After about my third week of PT for my wrist I decided to try cutting some strips for my Bargello quilt. I needed more wrist pressure to cut, sew my sewing slowed down some. I had compensated, using what I called the ‘forearm’ hold.’ It might have been better called the ‘elbow hold.’

My Physical Therapist is what you might call, ‘the wrist whisperer.’ Or ‘the wrist miracle worker.’ The first appointment had been measurements for the before and afters. The second appointment, I noticed a 100% improvement even though I still had a long way to go.

Proverbs 3:8 It will be health to your body [your marrow, your nerves, your sinews, your muscles—all your inner parts] And refreshment (physical well-being) to your bones.

At today’s PT session, she brought out a 3-pound weight and a flex bar.

She demonstrated three or four exercises I would be doing. They seemed easy enough.

She asked me if I wanted a picture of me since I can’t do a selfie and the exercise without a third hand. In a way it was like rolling pie crust; I had to keep my right hand steady and twist the left down, then reposition and twist up. It wasn’t too bad after I got the hang of what I was doing.

For part of my own homework PT, I did some more strip cutting today. It’s feeling better everyday!! Did you notice it’s braceless?

After 10-PT sessions, she said it’s time to do measurements and compare from the first appointment.

First up, the questionnaire about things I can do and those I have trouble doing. Things like opening my pickle jars and vacuuming. The wrist was about 63.6% disabled that first evaluation, now it’s only 25.2% disabled!! Yeahhh!! That’s a lot of improvement!!

Next, six or eight different measurements of wrist angles. All angles have improved since the first ones.

Another improvement was in my wrist measurement. I lost a whole centimeter!! Most probably because the swelling went down during all the weight lifting.

Remember this gem, it’s the grip. I scored an 18 today!! It was only a 3 that first day.

One question she asked was, ‘if I’d be happy not coming to PT anymore?’ I said, “no, this is the highlight of my day!!” I added that with today’s gas prices, I make a day out of it, going shopping for groceries and fabrics while I’m out.

Ezekiel 37:5 This is what the Lord GOD says to these bones: I will cause breath to enter you, and you will live (and bones will be healed.)

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The Funny Bone


The faux bee’s were busy making more faux wax. They are so weird. They put their faux wax into these plastic bags instead of hives. I don’t understand them.

The Bees in Your Backyard

Not a faux bee in the swarm.

Anyway…

Today’s PT was about the same as the last couple sessions so I didn’t take new pictures.

This 25-pound weight showed up again. It’s actually a whopping 2-pounds. It’s the most difficult exercise so far.

Ezekiel 37:5 This is what the Lord GOD says to these bones: I will cause breath to enter you, and you will live (and bones will be healed.)

I did a little online window shopping at Walmart.com and aisle I-17 they had some of the 25-lbs. weights. If the online search was right, they had them in stock at my local store. The next time I went to Wally’s, I went to aisle I-17, and found the two-pound weight. It was only $4.38 or something, so I got one.

As a side note shopping tip, I love the aisle feature when I bring up an online item. I use the ‘notes’ feature to make my grocery list that I’ve organized the way I shop the store. So for something like this, I put the item and the aisle number in my list. 2-lbs weight, I-17. It’s great!! I don’t even have to look around for a clerk for assistance.

With my new weight, I was ready to pump iron. Two-pounds, two-minutes, two-times a day. I did four different exercises. A grand total of eight-minutes for one set with the weight.

I had to compare pumping iron the old fashioned way. I did alright and I think it was about two-pounds too!!

Do you see it? The ice is out of the river!! It’s my second sign of spring!!

Psalm 147:18
He sends out His word and melts the ice; He causes His wind to blow and the waters to flow.

During today’s Pain & Torture, one thing she said was it would take a year for my wrist to get back to almost normal. They never get back to 100%. I think I was a little shocked. You usually hear 6-8 weeks to heal broken bones. I’ll have to ask a few more questions next appointment.

Another new tool. It was like a heavy duty elastic with loops for fingers. The goal is to spread my fingers open. I’ve got a ways to go on this one.

Then she explained I could make a loop with the putty and put my hand in and expand my fingers. It would act like the heavy duty rubber band. I could add 15 ‘expands’ to my PT homework.

At the next PT appointment, she used this therapy cream after the faux bee’s wax, wrap and turns.

The cream and ‘butter knife’ was helping to elongate the muscles in my forearm. Among other things, it should help me be able to hold my wrist down 90° and up 90° from the arm. Right now I’m probably around 45°.

Somehow from the time I left the last appointment and got home, I noticed pain in my forearm as I did my exercise homework. I mentioned it at this next PT session. She did the ultrasound, then the cream and butter knife again to elongate the muscles.

You probably can’t see it, but there’s new hair growth on my forearm where the break was/is. She said that’s a sign of healing!!! Yeahhh!!

A successful couple weeks of PT!!

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The Wrist Bone’s Connected to The Thumb Bone

About three-weeks ago I left readers hanging with my broken bone and wrist brace. When I first met the Doc, I said, ‘they might not have taught you in medical school about all the different wrist turns and twists depending on what you are trying to do.’ He didn’t say anything.

These guys were having a little lunch on my way into the appointment. First on the schedule were new X-rays of my wrist. I asked the X-ray guy if I could get a picture for the blog, but he said no.


The doc came in and took my arm and did a couple turns and moves. He said to continue PT and he’d see me in a month for another assessment.

I asked him if the wrist bone is connected to the thumb bone? His answer was basically, ‘yes.’

It’s why I can’t make a fist well and can’t angle my hand when using my cutting tools. Yet.

The wrist is made up of two forearm bones called the radius and ulna, the radius is the larger of the two. A distal radius fracture is a break near the wrist (distal) end of the radius bone, where it is particularly vulnerable. Sometimes, the ulna bone in the forearm is also broken, called a distal ulna fracture.

My break is the most common wrist break.

The Gist

FINDINGS:
Similar alignment of the moderately impacted angulated fracture of the distal radial metaphysis, with moderate dorsal tilt of the distal radial articular surface. Progressive bridging callus is present. Moderate base of thumb osteoarthritis. Bony mineralization preserved, without suspicious lesion. Soft tissues within normal limits. No pathologic calcifications.

He didn’t tell me all this, but it was in the exit report. I understood him more when he took my arm and did a few turns.

Another question I asked the Doc was how long he’s been in the bone business and he said, ‘forty-years.’

I like him.

1 Corinthians 7:7 I wish that all of you were as I am. But each of you has your own gift from God; one has this gift, another has that.

Doc’s gift is bones.

Ezekiel 37:5 This is what the Lord GOD says to these bones: I will cause breath to enter you, and you will live (and bones will be healed.)

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As the Bones Turn

Between the last Physical Therapy appointment and the current one, I did this exercise I called, ‘the Princess Di wave.’ With and without the brace.

Today’s PT started like the last one with the faux bee’s wax.


The wrap and rest.

The ultrasound.


The ‘Pain & Torture’ is what the physical therapist called today’s session. She turned my wrist basically like my Princess Di Wave exercises, only just a tad more so I could feel the pain. I almost had to change my pain level to seven!! Yeahhh!! Improvement from last time.


Next, a new exercise picking my water bottle up at the bottom and tipping it over. I can turn it about halfway.

Another exercise she had me try, I was supposed to put my forehand flat against the wall, making a 90° angle with my arm. I have a ways to go to be able to do this one.

The final exercise of the day was using this therapy putty, like play dough, for pressure. Make a ball, turn it and make another for three-minutes. Seems easy enough. Right away she said, ‘your arm is shaking.’ Then she explained it’s a sign of weakness. I wasn’t overly surprised since I haven’t been able to do too much with it the last month or so.

Another play dough exercise was pressing my fingers and thumb on the dough rope. It was basically like fluting a pie crust. I didn’t get a picture at PT so I got one later.

She sent me home with some ‘Pain & Torture’ exercises to do using the therapy putty. Three minutes, three times a day.

My first putty homework assignment.

I did it, however I had to cheat a little.

I set my 3-minutes-3-times a day schedule to be around 9:00, 12:00 and 3:00, give or take a few minutes. If I missed one, I’d do it after supper.

My next PT appointment was a couple days later and started with the faux bee’s wax dips. Then the wrap and ultrasound. She again saw improvement from the last appointment. I think it’s from my Princess Di Wave exercises and the putty homework.


Today, a review of a couple of the exercises from last time. Then she brought out this 25-pound weight. Actually it was only two-pounds, but I could hardly lift it!! It might as well have been twenty-five pounds!!

Three reps of ten. Listen to me, sounding like a training coach!! They were up & down, side-to-side, and another one, palms up maybe. The first ones were was the hardest.

She said I need to work up to thirty each before I graduate. I’m apt to be here all summer at this rate.

The session ended with this icy-hot stuff for my worn out muscles!!

Ezekiel 37:5 This is what the Lord GOD says to these bones: I will cause breath to enter you, and you will live (and bones will be healed.)

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Make No Bones About It

Make no bones about it, it’s difficult to do simple tasks with a broken wrist. I fell in winter and one of the first obstacles that I couldn’t do was shovel my walkway. Fortunately my plow guy kept it cleared out for me.

Cooking presented problems too. Some of the simplest tasks were the hardest. Things like opening a jar of pickles, a can of pineapples or my jar of peanut butter, all sometimes posed pretty big problems.

Philippians 4:13 I can do all things through Him who strengthens me.


This rubber gripper thing worked well some of the time. You know, the thing they give you at health fairs that you don’t think you’ll ever need? Occasionally that didn’t work. I didn’t realize how a broken wrist weakened the whole body. Anyway, I had this other gripper tool that usually worked when the other didn’t. I also figured out a way to use both along with the forearm of my broken wrist like a fulcrum.

I usually make bread, however I put it on the back burner for a month or so. In my mind, I knew I wouldn’t be able to shape the loaves well. When I did make it, my loaves came out pretty good. Then my next problem was cutting a slice with one hand. I hadn’t thought that far ahead.


As an FYI, as easy as ziplock bags are normally, they too were challenging at times. I think the ones with the pull tab might have been invented by someone with a broken wrist. They were a little easier.

Except for slicing my bread, I didn’t prepare much that required the use of a knife. I had visions of it slipping and cutting my wrist off completely!!

Dangers in the Kitchen

When I was teaching Home Economics, one of the first units in Foods & Nutrition class was safety in the kitchen. A picture similar to this almost always had someone sticking a knife in the toaster. Yes, my toast got stuck in the toaster. I started to unplug it, but my wrist didn’t turn the way I needed it to, so I used my knife to get my toast out. Visions of 100-Zillion-Kilowatts of electricity went through my mind!! I managed to get it, but was again reminded of things I shouldn’t do with my broken wrist.

Fortunately I had some leftovers in the freezer that I was able to have with only a few problems. The first being opening the containers. Tupperware and tupperware-wannabes, are great, until you try to open them with one hand. Here’s the secret, push the top off by pressing it down on the edge of the countertop. Hopefully the little tab won’t break off.

My sewing came to a bone chilling halt too. I actually tried to keep my sewing routine right after the fall for a about three-weeks. I had a few things cut that I was working on. The problem came when I needed to cut strips. I needed more pressure on my left hand and couldn’t cut it well. I was able to adjust and put my arm/elbow on my cutting tool for the pressure. Then I got out of my sewing routine and rested a while. You might call it, ‘lazy bones.’

During the assessment at Physical Therapy, there were a series of questions about what I could do and the degree of difficulty. Like opening a jar, most of my tasks were on the list. One was, could I carry a bag of groceries? Not 100%, but I could push, pull and even kick a bag along on the snow to get it in the house.

Ezekiel 37:5 This is what the Lord GOD says to these bones: I will cause breath to enter you, and you will live (and bones will be healed.)

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Skin & Bones

The next visit to PT she had me put my hand in fairly hot bee’s wax. It’s actually faux bee’s wax. I’ve never seen a faux bee before. I’m a little bit of an expert on bee’s, and bug’s.

Five dips. At first I didn’t think I could flatten my wrist enough to cover it. I did it!!

Then she put my hand in a plastic bag, covered my wrist and let it rest.

Next the ultrasound machine to see what my bones were doing.

The wrist ultrasound. It somehow helps the bones heal quicker. I should have taken better notes!!

Some exercises where she turned my wrist in different directions. Including the painful directions. She could already see improvement in range of motion since the first visit.

Putting a lotion on the wrist to help reduce the swelling. Overall successful PT.

Ezekiel 37:5 This is what the Lord GOD says to these bones: I will cause breath to enter you, and you will live (and bones will be healed.)

While I was out and about, I decided to stop at my favorite fabric store and parked beside this guy.

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Working my Fingers to the Bone


A few days after my appointment with the orthopedic doc, I had a call to come for PT. I was a little confused because I thought the doc said I’d see him again first, then see about PT. The person that called gave me a couple appointment options.


After signing in, the receptionist gave me this, ‘therapy attendance agreement.’ Apparently I couldn’t skip school or be late to class.

Once in for my appointment, 10-minutes late, I questioned ‘if the being late clause goes both ways?’ She didn’t quite understand my question until I said I’d been in the waiting room ten-minutes.

First, a few before & afters. A bunch of measurements and comparison to my right wrist.


Next, some hand movements that were similar to my own exercises I’d been doing right along. One movement, palm up, always would hurt some. The reason, the break, of course. The bones normally would turn and cross in this movement. Right now, they don’t cross.

Toward the end of the assessment, she brought out this gem. I don’t quite understand how it worked, it didn’t seem to even move. I gripped it with my strong arm, the right, and then with the left. The right was normal. The left scored a zero if I remember correctly.

Ezekiel 37:5 This is what the Lord GOD says to these bones: I will cause breath to enter you, and you will live (and bones will be healed.)


Coordinating times for PT for the next few weeks.

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