{"id":353,"date":"2005-05-12T11:46:00","date_gmt":"2005-05-12T11:46:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dresan.com\/blog\/?p=353"},"modified":"2005-05-12T11:46:00","modified_gmt":"2005-05-12T11:46:00","slug":"a-remarkable-lack-of-progress","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/2005\/05\/12\/a-remarkable-lack-of-progress\/","title":{"rendered":"A Remarkable Lack of Progress"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Well, time to start researching <a href=\"http:\/\/www.vetmed.ufl.edu\/sacs\/notes\/Cross-Healing\/page9.html\">bone healing<\/a>.   <\/p>\n<p>I dropped by the doctor yesterday for a follow-up X-ray and while my arm shows every external sign it&#8217;s getting better, the x-ray shows a different story.  The bone, while healing right, is showing &#8220;a remarkable lack of progress&#8221; &#8212; everything&#8217;s going the right way, but really slowly.  In case the problem is that my body is simply having a traffic jam (typical Atlantan!), I&#8217;ve included the handy map below to indicate where the bone SHOULD be growing:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.dresan.com\/images\/armcomb.png\"><br \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.dresan.com\/images\/armcomb-small.png\" width=\"600\" \/><br \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Fortunately, bone is one of the few body systems that can fully <a href=\"http:\/\/www.vetmed.ufl.edu\/sacs\/notes\/Cross-Healing\/page6.html\">regenerate itself<\/a> rather than just slapping on scar patch over the damaged area.  And it is the case that &#8220;clinical healing&#8221; (what you can see externally) progresses faster than &#8220;radiographic healing&#8221; (what you can see on an x-ray). SO both I and my doctor are confident that, God willing, my arm will heal up and I&#8217;ll return to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dresan.com\/2004\/10\/throw-your-head-at-ground-and-miss.html\">throwing my head at the ground and missing<\/a> soon enough.  However, it pretty much kills my chances of participating in the 30th anniversary karate tournament this year.<\/p>\n<p>So, God, if you&#8217;re telling me I should <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fanufiku.com\">concentrate on my webcomic<\/a> for a while, I&#8217;m listening.<\/p>\n<p>-the Centaur<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well, time to start researching bone healing. I dropped by the doctor yesterday for a follow-up X-ray and while my arm shows every external sign it&#8217;s getting better, the x-ray&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[37],"class_list":["post-353","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-the-break","ratio-2-1","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/353","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=353"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/353\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=353"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=353"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=353"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}