cast off

Got the cast off today. In my growing experience of broken arms and casts, this is the scariest time. When the pain goes you get used to wearing a cast. Bumping into things isn't a problem. Mine even occasionally got used as a tool for banging things.
now all that protection's gone and I feel very vulnerable.
I've got a big scar healing, and a wrist joint that's painful to move... A small part of me wants it back inside my protective shell.

No physio this time - I know the routine; so down to work getting everything loosened up. I even started the basic exercises while waiting for the x-ray to develop.

short arm cast

Got the cast changed to a red one that stops below my elbow. The elbow's very stiff, but nice to be able to stretch again. The nurse who was putting it on was about to cover my thumb with the new cast, but I stopped her just in time.
Now it goes a little bit up the thumb and partly covers my fingers too. If anything it's more restrictive than the long one - at least I could use my hand with the purple one.

On the bright side, helicopter heroes is on BBC1 every morning!