Expecting Healing

Christ Healing the Blind, El Greco, 1570. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1978.416

I’m 3 months post-op from left wrist surgery and my hand surgeon says I have “million dollar x-rays”. The bone (broken in 3 places and dislocated) has perfectly healed in place with the help of two plates and numerous pins and screws. I’ll have at least 7 more weeks of occupational therapy and we’ll “talk about golf” at my next appointment around May 1.It seems like a long time since I broke my wrist in a bike fall in October 2015. Because of lymphedema complications from my breast surgery in 2006, I had abnormal amounts of swelling throughout my arm, wrist and fingers. I still have some puffiness that is slowly resolving. In addition, breast cancer treatment had decreased my bone density, so we weren’t sure if my bones would heal slower, faster or never.It was six weeks of complete immobility, followed by 6 weeks of limited flexibility exercises. As of this week,