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Wow, just wow. Thanks for letting us know. Bad situation but so glad it's not worse.Hope your doctor gets you physical and occupational therapy to help you.
We suspected something might be wrong and were worrying about you but did not suspect THIS! Thank goodness you got intervention in time! Get better!
Wow, Nell, that is a Thanksgiving! I am so glad you got medical intervention in a timely matter!I can relate to the one-armed actions needed until the damaged one is healed! It does get better with time, but I can sympathize with the frustrations! 🤗💖
Not a fun way to spend Thanksgiving but what a blessing you were able to get the correct treatment. I hope your recovery will be swift.
Oh my goodness, Nell, how totally scary that must have been! I'm so glad you ended up in good and caring hands, Sending my very best wishes for not only a full recovery but a solution to the mystery! 🌺🌺🌺
Oh Nell! What a scary experience. Thank God for the great medical care and now prayers for healing. 🙏🏽
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I hope you have a full recovery. Being one-handed is a real pain.
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What a story Nell! I'm so glad you got the help you needed in time to save your arm. I wish you a full and speedy recovery. Please do keep us posted - we have been worried. I have had more than one injury and surgery involving my dominant arm. It's awful, but it does get better.
Wow That is a scary, crazy story! I hope you recover the full use of your arm. I'm glad you survived to tell the tale.
Wow, Nell, thank you for sharing your story. That would be very frightening. Hoping for a complete recovery.
Nell, glad they discovered the issue! And it will be Thanksgiving a new meaning for sure.
Just discovered this thread... What a frightening experience to go through, Nell, but glad they found out what had happened to you. Hope you´ll be able to use your dominant arm soon!
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I can move my fingers now and have started therapy for my hand. In the meantime, I am trying to be patient and getting pretty good at one-handed typing.
Nell wrote: "Thank you all for your well wishes! 🤗🥰I can move my fingers now and have started therapy for my hand. Meanwhile, I am getting pretty good at one-handed typing."
Very glad to hear about therapy as I am überbeliever in it.
Nell wrote: "Thank you all for your well wishes! 🤗🥰I can move my fingers now and have started therapy for my hand. In the meantime, I am trying to be patient and getting pretty good at one-handed typing."
That's good news! Can you dictate speech to text? One-handed typing sounds really hard unless you type like my mom, with one finger.
Nell wrote: "Thank you all for your well wishes! 🤗🥰I can move my fingers now and have started therapy for my hand. In the meantime, I am trying to be patient and getting pretty good at one-handed typing."
Woo hoo!
Nell wrote: "Thank you all for your well wishes! 🤗🥰I can move my fingers now and have started therapy for my hand. In the meantime, I am trying to be patient and getting pretty good at one-handed typing."
So glad you are hunt-and-pecking okay. I know most people have issues with using only one hand! I think determination will help overcome things that otherwise seem impossible!
No one knew I was ambidextrous, even when I broke my right arm in 1970. I did things with my left hand nearly as well as my right hand and didn't think otherwise at the time. In 1982, after a horrible accident, I was tested, and the results were just over 50% right-handed. That even amazed my closest family.
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The dictation feature in Word annoys me. By the time I've repeated myself and fixed errors, I can type one-handed faster.
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Tuesday of Thanksgiving week as I started to get dressed, I completely lost use of my left arm. I could not move my fingers or my arm. I am left-handed. I had to use my right arm to move my left. Pain radiated from my left shoulder down my arm. Something was very wrong. There's an Urgent Care four blocks from my new home. I dressed as best I could, draping my sweater over my left shoulder, and drove myself to Urgent Care. They said it could be a strained muscle or a stroke. From there I went by ambulance to ER at Yale New Haven Hospital.
I went through stroke protocol including the 'magic drug" TPA. Even though I had not been diagnosed with a stroke, the doctors told me you have to take it within 4 hours or the damage is irreparable. Of course I said "Yes! Save my arm!"
Once I took that medication, they were checking my responses every 15 mins, 30 mins, hour. Plus lots and lots and lots of tests. At 2 am, the ICU nurse tried to check the pulse in my left arm and could not find one. She alerted the doctor, who could only find a faint pulse. She immediately ordered an ultrasound of both arms - which is so S-L-O-W & took FOREVER! It showed that clots near my elbow were blocking all of the major arteries in my arm. I still had blood flow in my 'minor' arteries. God Bless Them! They kept my arm alive.
I had emergency vascular surgery Wednesday morning. The surgery was successful. I spent Thanksgiving in Surgical ICU with a lot to be thankful for! The surgeons saved my arm. I am especially grateful for Patrice, the nurse who paid attention to the presenting symptom when everyone else was looking somewhere else!
I am gradually recovering the use of my left arm and hand. Therapy starts next week. In the meantime, living with only one hand - and it is my nondominant hand - is a new adventure. There are tons of things we use both hands for: They sent me home from the hospital with meds in tamper-proof bottles that I cannot open. I am typing this one handed. It's hard to cut food with only one hand. I am reading on my Kindle instead of print books. I have not been driving. Wondering how to open an envelope.
My doctors say I am an interesting case. They are still trying to figure out the underlying cause - I don't fit any of the usual categories. I love to read mysteries, but I'm not sure how I feel about being one.
With great gratitude
Nell