Catching Up
Aug. 1st, 2009 08:50 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
dmarleyI've realized that I haven't actually, formally updated anything about my wrist lately. As it happens, no news is good news, but since I've been blithering about it for months I might as well offer closure, too. :)
I went back to the surgeon just before leaving for the beach, and he basically said, "You are healed, go forth." I have about 40 degrees of forward movement in my wrist, and about 60 degrees backward movement. This is not as good as I might have hoped, but in practice I've found that I can do pretty much anything I want. Well, anything that doesn't involve leaning all my weight on my right wrist, but I'm working on that, as well. I'm also continuing to stretch the wrist, in hopes of eking out just a little more freedom of movement, but I'm pretty happy where I am.
I'm also knitting again. :) :) :) :) :) :) :)
I also fared rather well in the "purely vanity" category. I don't think I would actually have cared that much if I'd ended up with a huge messy scar, not if it meant fixing the pain, but as it happens I don't have to test my own vanity. I have one three-inch-long scar on the back of my hand and another about three-quarters of an inch long on the side of my wrist. They're obvious, but not particularly noticeable, if that makes any sense. I'm not sure what my level of self-consciousness would be, but it's apparently way below what I ended up with, so I'm very pleased.
All in all, I feel pretty darn lucky. It was a hellish winter, but I came out of it with all the important things (for instance, knitting) still possible, and I'm not in pain anymore. This is all good. :)
In other news, I'm done rescuing files from my Mom's malfunctioning iPod, and am about three-quarters done transferring the files back into iTunes so I can load them onto her new iPod. This has taken some time, both because I want to make sure that everything's being transferred, and also because I'm converting a bunch of WAV files to MP3. She has a machine that converts cassettes into digital audio, but it saves the files as WAV and we've never really coordinated that "How to convert files to MP3" tutorial I've been promising to do for her. So far, I've saved about 50GB (!?) of space.
I've also plowed through the backlog of Torchwood stories that were posted on LJ during my vacation. Without going into brutal statistics, I estimate that I had to read roughly twice as many stories, and tagged about the same net number as I would have pre-Children of Earth. I would despair, except that I sort of suspected that this would be the case. I also saved a bunch of stories that I didn't tag, some of which may end up working their way into the rec list. We'll have to see.
All in all, it's good to be back.
I went back to the surgeon just before leaving for the beach, and he basically said, "You are healed, go forth." I have about 40 degrees of forward movement in my wrist, and about 60 degrees backward movement. This is not as good as I might have hoped, but in practice I've found that I can do pretty much anything I want. Well, anything that doesn't involve leaning all my weight on my right wrist, but I'm working on that, as well. I'm also continuing to stretch the wrist, in hopes of eking out just a little more freedom of movement, but I'm pretty happy where I am.
I'm also knitting again. :) :) :) :) :) :) :)
I also fared rather well in the "purely vanity" category. I don't think I would actually have cared that much if I'd ended up with a huge messy scar, not if it meant fixing the pain, but as it happens I don't have to test my own vanity. I have one three-inch-long scar on the back of my hand and another about three-quarters of an inch long on the side of my wrist. They're obvious, but not particularly noticeable, if that makes any sense. I'm not sure what my level of self-consciousness would be, but it's apparently way below what I ended up with, so I'm very pleased.
All in all, I feel pretty darn lucky. It was a hellish winter, but I came out of it with all the important things (for instance, knitting) still possible, and I'm not in pain anymore. This is all good. :)
In other news, I'm done rescuing files from my Mom's malfunctioning iPod, and am about three-quarters done transferring the files back into iTunes so I can load them onto her new iPod. This has taken some time, both because I want to make sure that everything's being transferred, and also because I'm converting a bunch of WAV files to MP3. She has a machine that converts cassettes into digital audio, but it saves the files as WAV and we've never really coordinated that "How to convert files to MP3" tutorial I've been promising to do for her. So far, I've saved about 50GB (!?) of space.
I've also plowed through the backlog of Torchwood stories that were posted on LJ during my vacation. Without going into brutal statistics, I estimate that I had to read roughly twice as many stories, and tagged about the same net number as I would have pre-Children of Earth. I would despair, except that I sort of suspected that this would be the case. I also saved a bunch of stories that I didn't tag, some of which may end up working their way into the rec list. We'll have to see.
All in all, it's good to be back.