Hello Everyone: I'm sorry to provide bad news this way, but it makes it so I can get the news out to everyone in a timely fashion. Before the message gets mangled by well-meaning types.
On Friday afternoon Bill and I took one of our bike rides. As most people know, I've been trying to lose weight. The ride started well, and I had just gotten my speed up to 20 mph on Sunnyvale-Saratoga Road (three lanes in each direction with a divider berm). I saw some teenagers crossing, and coming into the bike lane that I was in. They were not looking where they were going, and they were not aware of their surroundings. I yelled at one teenager that it looked like I was about to hit. I tried to avoid hitting the teenager. The next thing I remember is becoming aware of an ambulance attendant telling me that I was being taken to Stanford Trauma Center. I was discharged from Stanford yesterday (Sunday) afternoon. The upshot is that I have a badly fractured elbow. I am having Dr. Warren King do the surgery this evening (Monday) about 6:00 p.m. Dr. King is the surgeon who did my shoulder surgery six years ago, and he is the orthopedic surgeon for two American football teams - the Oakland Raiders and the San Francisco 49ers. I have more confidence in Dr. King than I do in the physician that Stanford wanted me to use - a resident in her thirties who specializes in upper arm/joint repair. No thank you. Funny thing was, the Stanford resident that I was talking to was predicting that Dr. King would not want to do the surgery, and that I would wind up back at Stanford. Ha. What I called confident arrogance. The prognosis is that I'll lose some of my flexibility and range of motion. The fracture is that bad. It also depends on how well I do in physical therapy. The better I do there, the better the quality of life I'll have. I typed this message one handed, and I do not expect to be on the computer at all tomorrow. First Wednesday will still happen, but I don't think I'll be doing any sewing. I'll also be at SiliCon as planned, but I don't think I'll be doing any Regency dancing there. I'm also not going to be on the computer much this week. I'll have my arm in a post surgical splint for a week, get it removed, and then start physical therapy. I suspect that I'll be doing a lot of sleeping for the next day or so. Here's to a good surgical procedure without complications. I'll try to have Bill send an update later. Until later-- Carole _______________________________________________ basfa mailing list [email protected] http://vesta.wallis.com/mailman/listinfo/basfa
