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Laura’s Terrible Triad, Salem, OR (2025)

09/11/2024

Update: Facebook buries private messages if we aren’t Facebook Friends.

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Facebook messages have been getting buried since we weren’t connected. (Sorry for those I responded to late.)

You can also write messages under any post on this page and I will see them. ❤️

07/17/2024

I am leaving this page open since this is a rare break AND extremely rare to go the non-surgical route.

I am fully recovered without surgery. I am happy to answer questions should anyone need support with this type of fracture.

PT compliance was my saving grace and how I got back full usage.

10/07/2023

Finally made time to get out on my bike today!

It was wonderful!

08/07/2023

Today is my 5 Month Mark.
I took July & Aug off from PT so I could enjoy my summer and make up work I lost out on.

My arm has lost some mobility in reaching and extending but I know I can get it back when I go back to PT next month.

It has been a nice break from all those Dr Appts.
Life is good.

Still very grateful I did not need surgery or need hardware. I had a FANTASTIC surgeon / doctor.

06/02/2023

6/1/23 12 Week Surgeon Appt & X-Rays:

(Left clinic jumping up and down excited!)

My X-ray showed the bones are healed.
My joint tendons ligaments are healed enough that they will not fall out of place or dislocate on their own.

So I am free to bike, lift, paddle, etc.
I can do anything my body will allow.
She said, “When it is too stressed it will tell you.”
I have experienced this and know what she is talking about.

So I am working on PT, gaining more mobility and having fun this Summer. Then I report back to her afterwards and see her again in 3 months.

05/07/2023

5/7/23 ~ Week 8 completed ~
Still talking like a Potty Mouth Trucker.

Don’t tell my Husband, but last week I hurt my elbow twice:

1. I was taking my dog out on a leash with my right hand and reflexively reached up and opened a sliding glass door with my left hand. Thought I was gonna die. Had to play it cool and hide it from my husband because he keeps telling me to wear my brace. (Brace gives support and reminds me not to use it.)

2. Friday was Cinco de Mayo and I was buying Corona 1/2 rack bottles from Roth’s who had them on sale (for our landscapers) and accidentally pulled a case out. I went to push it back in accidentally w/ left hand and almost passed out.
I wanted to lay down right there in the cooler aisle. Been playing it cool all weekend hoping it heals.

Long story short ~ Wear the brace.
I am still packing this around like High Schoolers carry those egg babies in Health class.

I have three (3) different braces now.
I choose based on need and activity.

05/01/2023

It’s official!
As of today I’m down 20 lbs!
I’m going to keep going… plenty more to lose.

My hope is that if I ask for help getting out of this river on to the dock and the person can’t help me, I will be saying, “I’m now light so if you can’t lift me, you must be weak!” 😂 😝😂😆😂

(Family eye roll 🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄)

04/30/2023

Thankful for Keto Chow - If you go through a bad break, these meal replacement shakes make the weekly meal prep a breeze.

The smaller containers are the same thing but put in Creami containers for my ice cream dinners using the new Ninja Creami.

This looks like a lot but my hubby is drinking them too…

Delicious & Easy.
No shopping, chopping, cooking, or food waste.

04/28/2023

Mel’s 5 Second Window Philosophy has helped me be the great Mom, Wife, Business Person that I am. If you are flat on your back, consider listening to one of her audiobooks. 💕

04/28/2023

Week 7

I did great staying busy with work Mon-TH this week but as soon as I pulled in and parked, I was brought back to my Summer Plans of Grief. I wish tears counted towards calories burned. The PT Guy, Mark, was kind and understanding. He confirmed the emotions I am going through at this stage are 100% normal and common.

Range of motion is at 130 and 140 is normal.
My hard work is paying off. I have the range of motion of a 12 week recovery at only 7 weeks.

However ~ Tissue and ligament damage does not speed up from hard work so I cannot speed up the clock on my recovery/desire to lift myself up and out of water this Summer.

I learned today I am looking at a 6 - 7 month recovery time before I can lift anything with my left arm, not alone my Big Girl Body up a ladder out of water.

Photo is to remind myself of pronation vs supination positions as this weeks focus.
I am still at risk of dislocation because my joints aren’t stable.

I was this therapists second Terrible Triad patient of the day and it was only 10:45 AM.
He said there’s a lot of us out here and most are hardware surgical recoveries involving full replacement of the radial head with a prosthetic. I know I am extremely fortunate.

Therapy days and weekends are terrible tear filled emotional days for me. So here I go into another weekend staying busy… Cleaning outside in this beautiful sunny weather with my good arm and my two good legs. I’m lucky it wasn’t a leg!

04/21/2023

4/20/23 - 6 Week Surgeon Appt was today.
Good News/Bad News

I received very positive remarks from the surgeon today about my overall situation:

✅ X-Rays show my breaks are healing nicely and bones are where they belong - so no surgery on the horizon.
✅ PT I have done at home has increased my mobility beyond what she expected.
I will continue with PT at home and in their clinic for another 6 weeks when I go back for X-Rays and see the surgeon next.

All that was great. I wanted to know if I could ride my bike, lift, lift things, lift myself, grandchild, etc. and she said no, that we needed to see where I was at - at my “next” 6 week visit. 😭 😭😭😭

She kept filling me with praise on how well I’ve done and acknowledged how much pain I’m in and how well I’m handling it. She restated again and again how horrible the elbow is to heal from a break. Blah blah blah. I love her she’s sweet. All I heard was “Another 6 weeks.”

If you have cancer, a terminal illness or chronic life long illness stop reading.
I know I have no right to whine/complain.
But my body and emotions aren’t listening to my brain right now.

I lost it on the way home. Bawled like a baby.
I’m still grieving. I feel just like the shock my body went through when I landed on that driveway, and thought I’d pass out and throw up at the same time.

I worked so hard to get to 6 weeks. Had that built up in my mind as THE DAY. The mark. The goal. Etc. And I’ll be damned if the goal post didn’t get moved on me.

I’m in shock. Another 6 weeks. And on that day - I just get more information.

I can promise you one thing. On that day I’m riding my damn bike. Maybe sooner. I’ve got a rebellious streak in me the size of The Grand Canyon. It’s all I can do to keep it together right now and not go completely off the deep end.

6 weeks is a long ass time.

The End. I need to go break stuff.

I can’t even go take an Epson salt bath because I can’t get my big ass out of that tiny bath tub without two hands. I know. TMI.

I better go to bed and recite “His mercies are new every morning,” again and again.
And pray I stop cussing.

04/19/2023

Week 6 PT:
Previous exercise + 2 more

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