Broken humerous and no it's not funny

[A.Reader]

Yesternoon i went down on the ice and broke the knobby bit that
goes in the shoulder sockt off the end of my right arm. im
r-handed of course. anyone have any idea how long the clorty
thing will take to heal in someone in her 70s? Docs were cadgy
"everyones different". they couldn't plaster it, being where it
is,they said, so its just in a sling

[Robert Carnegie]

Sympathetic oww.

Microsoft Windows since Vista includes speech
recognition, this may be a time to give it
a try. When I've used it, working through
all the "training" exercises has paid off.
Also rhyming "a" with "hay" and "the" with
"bee". The result still is occasionally
hilarious and I artfully in porridge you
to diet. :-)

You can make a two button computer mouse
"left handed" by setting the operating system
to interpret the buttons with the opposite
meaning to usual.

Windows also has a "sticky keys" feature
so that buttons like shift "stay down"
effectively for one-handed operation.
Note, buttons do not actually stay pressed
down, nor are they actually sticky.

Bottom line, you can make your computer either
completely unusable or very uncomfortable
for a comparatively undamaged visiting user.
If you're not using the keyboard much then
you can even hide it. Do remember where
for when you get better.

[Richard Heathfield]

On 04/02/15 14:38, Robert Carnegie wrote:
> On Wednesday, 4 February 2015 13:38:28 UTC, A. Reader wrote:
>> Yesternoon i went down on the ice and broke the knobby bit that
>> goes in the shoulder sockt off the end of my right arm. im
>> r-handed of course. anyone have any idea how long the clorty
>> thing will take to heal in someone in her 70s? Docs were cadgy
>> "everyones different". they couldn't plaster it, being where it
>> is,they said, so its just in a sling
>
> Sympathetic oww.

Please add an empathetic oooch.

<snip>

> Windows also has a "sticky keys" feature
> so that buttons like shift "stay down"
> effectively for one-handed operation.
> Note, buttons do not actually stay pressed
> down, nor are they actually sticky.

That rather depends, doesn't it? :-)

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Richard Heathfield
Email: rjh at cpax dot org dot uk
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[larry]

You have our sympathy.

In her early 70's m'lady had microsurgery shoulder muscle re-attachment
(physio and two weeks in sling,) and, in her mid-70s, a hip replacement
(three days in hospital, home physio and cane-assisted for two weeks,)
so there's good precedent for a quick recovery.

[Nigel Stapley]

On 04/02/2015 14:38, Robert Carnegie wrote:
> On Wednesday, 4 February 2015 13:38:28 UTC, A. Reader wrote:
>> Yesternoon i went down on the ice and broke the knobby bit that
>> goes in the shoulder sockt off the end of my right arm. im
>> r-handed of course. anyone have any idea how long the clorty
>> thing will take to heal in someone in her 70s? Docs were cadgy
>> "everyones different". they couldn't plaster it, being where it
>> is,they said, so its just in a sling
>
> Sympathetic oww.

As the ape-like thing on the wall in "Banana Splits" used to say,
"That's an 'Ootch'!"

BTW, it's funny how you find things out, isn't it? I hadn't had you down
as a) female, or b) a septug...septi...someone in their 70s.

>
> Windows also has a "sticky keys" feature
> so that buttons like shift "stay down"
> effectively for one-handed operation.
> Note, buttons do not actually stay pressed
> down, nor are they actually sticky.
>

A few months ago, I had a problem with the left-hand-side Shift key
because of some half-forgotten morsel which had got lodged beneath it.

As I was hammering away at it to dislodge the crumb, a message appeared
which said, "Do you want to turn on Sticky Keys?".

To which I replied, loudly and in exasperation, "No I don't! I've
already fscking *got* one!"

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Nigel Stapley

www.thejudge.me.uk

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[mstephen51]

Yeah, it's a bugger. It's a fairly common rugby injury, and players in
their teens and twenties used to recover in two or three weeks. I broke
my left collar bone when I was in my late 50's (also six ribs)
(naturally, I'm left-handed.) It took about six weeks to heal, but
wasn't that incapacitating - although you have no control over your
upper arm, your fingers and forearm work OK, so you can pick up your arm
with your other hand, put your elbow on a table and write or type or eat
without much discomfort. My doctor (another ex-rugby player) advised me
to get rid of the sling and just tuck my thumb in my belt, which I found
was far more convenient, though I lost the sympathy vote.

Of course, there are a lot of things which are simply impossible, and
getting dressed in the morning is painful, slow and humiliating. Best
wishes for a speedy recovery.

Mark

[Rocky Frisco]

That happened to me when I was 14. The sling did not work for me, so they operated and I spent the whole Summer in an "airplane" splint with a rod stuck through my elbow to hold the arm steady. When they took it off, my elbow would not unbend, so I added a 15 pound weight to my wrist and eventually it straightened most of the way. One year later, I fell while roller skating and dislocated the shoulder. That happened a few more times when attempting strenuous activities like trick roping, back handsprings and the like. It was injured again while in the US Army and it would dislocate when turning over in bed or reaching for the salt at the table. You have my best wishes and complete sympathy. I hope it turns out better for you than it did for me.

-Rocky

[Lesley Weston]

Ouch! My condolences. I don't know about the shoulder in your seventies,
but when I was 68 my broken knee took six weeks of not touching that
foot to the ground and using a zimmer frame with 2 wheels to hop around
the house. Then about 2 months of weekly physio and daily exercises
while cautiously walking about with first one crutch, then a cane then
(yay!) nothing. I was able to walk on it after the six weeks, though I
had to keep taking breaks, and the physio encouraged me to use it as
much as I could and rest only when it started hurting. After a couple of
months more I was back to normal, walking at least a mile most days.

Shoulders when you're ninety, I do know about. My father did much the
same as you did, but they decided to put it back together with surgery.
Only days after that the physio that he was sent to see every week
started hounding him to start doing exercises, but they hurt so he
didn't. This was four years ago; he never did do the exercises and he
never did regain the full use of that arm.

So when you get to the physio stage, it really is worth listening to
her/him and following his/her suggestions closely. I do hope it goes
well for you.

Lesley.

--
My real e-mail is leswes att shaw dott ca

[Richard Bos]

That is indeed not funny. Unfortunately I suspect your doctors were
right to be cagey about predictions, some people just heal faster than
others. And some people heal broken bones fast but upset organs
slowly... humans are unpredictable.

Richard

[Richard Heathfield]

On 05/02/15 11:55, Richard Bos wrote:
> A.Reader <anony...@example.com> wrote:
>
>> Yesternoon i went down on the ice and broke the knobby bit that
>> goes in the shoulder sockt off the end of my right arm. im
>> r-handed of course. anyone have any idea how long the clorty
>> thing will take to heal in someone in her 70s? Docs were cadgy
>> "everyones different". they couldn't plaster it, being where it
>> is,they said, so its just in a sling
>
> That is indeed not funny. Unfortunately I suspect your doctors were
> right to be cagey about predictions,

I know, I know, but I preferred "cadgy". There's something appealing
about a doctor who says:

"Everyone's different. It will heal, though, if you look after it. And
by the way, I've been awake since 3am yesterday morning and I seem to
have left my wallet at home; could you spare me a dollar for some coffee?"

[Robert Carnegie]

On Thursday, 5 February 2015 09:18:49 UTC, Lewis wrote:
> Okay, so one time? In band camp? A.Reader <anony...@example.com> was all, like:

> > Yesternoon i went down on the ice and broke the knobby bit that
> > goes in the shoulder sockt off the end of my right arm. im
> > r-handed of course. anyone have any idea how long the clorty
> > thing will take to heal in someone in her 70s?
>

> Honestly, it is unlikely that it will ever heal completely. Sorry :(

I do wonder if we're generally too casual about
breaking bones and expecting them to mend.
Of course you didn't do it on purpose but...
Sherlock Holmes's pal Dr Watson spent their
whole career complaining about his war wound
hurting, admittedly a bullet and I don't think
it was still in there. And it was Sherlock
that kept taking the drugs. I don't mean he
stole Dr Watson's painkillers... he could get
the hard stuff in any shop, well, any suitable
shop. Happy days. :-)

Also Christopher Reeve's broken neck never really
got much better... but that is different.

[Walter Bushell]

In article <mavm1g$o20$1...@dont-email.me>,

Richard Heathfield <r...@cpax.org.uk> wrote:

> On 05/02/15 11:55, Richard Bos wrote:
> > A.Reader <anony...@example.com> wrote:
> >
> >> Yesternoon i went down on the ice and broke the knobby bit that
> >> goes in the shoulder sockt off the end of my right arm. im
> >> r-handed of course. anyone have any idea how long the clorty
> >> thing will take to heal in someone in her 70s? Docs were cadgy
> >> "everyones different". they couldn't plaster it, being where it
> >> is,they said, so its just in a sling
> >
> > That is indeed not funny. Unfortunately I suspect your doctors were
> > right to be cagey about predictions,
>
> I know, I know, but I preferred "cadgy". There's something appealing
> about a doctor who says:
>
> "Everyone's different. It will heal, though, if you look after it. And
> by the way, I've been awake since 3am yesterday morning and I seem to
> have left my wallet at home; could you spare me a dollar for some coffee?"

Where can you get coffee for a dollar nowadaze.

--
Never attribute to stupidity that which can be explained by greed. Me.

[larry]

What News?

[A.Reader]

Still broken. Still hurts like merry hell. On Tuesday (17th)
new xrays showed the fracture had displaced, so i was shunted off
for soonest-surgery to another doc in another city with, of
course, no public trans between them. That appt was today,
whereupon new xrays showed that the frac has un-displaced. So
the new doc is going to follow it for another 12 days and then
reevaluate. *sigh*

[larry]

As an aside, there is no public convenient transit in this rural area,
the county administration has a list of volunteers to call on. Once or
twice a week we are drivers_for_neighbours.

Is there no-one who will rid you of this mettlesome displacement?

[larry]

On 20/02/15 03:39 PM, larry wrote:
> On 20/02/15 02:15 PM, A.Reader wrote:
>> On Thu, 19 Feb 2015 18:14:04 -0500, larry
>> <shirleya...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> On 04/02/15 08:38 AM, A.Reader wrote:
>>>> Yesternoon i went down on the ice and broke the knobby bit that
>>>> goes in the shoulder sockt off the end of my right arm. im
>>>> r-handed of course. anyone have any idea how long the clorty
>>>> thing will take to heal in someone in her 70s? Docs were cadgy
>>>> "everyones different". they couldn't plaster it, being where it
>>>> is,they said, so its just in a sling
>>>>
>>>
>>> What News?
>>
>> Still broken. Still hurts like merry hell. On Tuesday (17th)
>> new xrays showed the fracture had displaced, so i was shunted off
>> for soonest-surgery to another doc in another city with, of
>> course, no public trans between them. That appt was today,
>> whereupon new xrays showed that the frac has un-displaced. So
>> the new doc is going to follow it for another 12 days and then
>> reevaluate. *sigh*
>>
>

We're hoping that your medics figure this out and that you heal with
all good speed.