{"id":388,"date":"2005-01-31T01:32:00","date_gmt":"2005-01-31T01:32:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dresan.com\/blog\/?p=388"},"modified":"2005-01-31T01:32:00","modified_gmt":"2005-01-31T01:32:00","slug":"the-worst-possible-good-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/2005\/01\/31\/the-worst-possible-good-news\/","title":{"rendered":"The Worst Possible Good News"},"content":{"rendered":"


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I had my doctor’s appointment and the results were good though discouraging.
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My bone is healing perfectly, but slowly. Clinically my arm is healing perfectly
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— scar closed, swelling gone, good range of motion and promising strength —
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but on the x-ray you can clearly see that the bone isn’t healed at the site of the
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original break. My doc told me that while I could “return to the activities of
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daily living”, it could be up to two to three months before the bone is healed
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to take the weight of handstand or a nengi (taido’s spinning floor kick).<\/p>\n

The super good news, thank God, is that my arm looks like it will completely
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heal, so I don’t want to screw that up! I’ve done some research on my own,
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and the doc’s projections are right on the money for what other physicians
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project for a forearm break. According to my initial surveys if I was on
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schedule for a break then around 10 weeks I’d be starting range of motion
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therapy and at 12 weeks back to limited strengh training. I’m past 8 weeks,
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so if anything I’m progressing ahead of schedule.<\/p>\n

While I may talk to my doc about doing an early followup appointment,
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realistically I’m not going to be able to go full out for at least a
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couple of months. SO … while I’m having a lot of fun at taido with
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nengi and handstands and such, especially with the new ideas for the
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upcoming tournament, it looks like I’m going to either have to miss
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the tournament entirely or have my slot switched to do a less
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intensive technique than throwing my head at the floor, missing,
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and catching myself on my hands.<\/p>\n

This sucks, but my arm looks like it’s going to heal almost
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perfectly — and I plan to Do The Right Thing and keep it that way!<\/p>\n

-Anthony<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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