Phew! 2-3 months post op Second surgery/hardware removal (surgical pins) was 8/16 and the original surgery was six weeks prior to that. What a road to recovery this has been! This whole experience has left me deeply humbled and intensely aware of my limits and also the limits of people in general. The thing is: limits are ever expanding and contracting according to every person and how they handle it. Overall I have to say I have learned a lot through this. I took what to me seemed to be a much harder, drastic path than just being passive and letting it go until something worse happened. Sure, I haven't climbed since mid April or so, but so what? I'll come back and get just as strong, meet my new limits, and hopefully surpass them in a safe way. I guess this parallels life to some extent. I am humbled by pain. It's a daily reminder that I'm still healing. I can barely move my wrist, my range of motion (ROM) is minuscule, but it improves a little everyday. I'd say 40% of my grip strength is back. I massage my scars every day to break them down as much as possible, but the long red scar probably will be the most prominent for a while. I start PT on 9/29 and I'm STOKED. I'm PSYCHED. I almost cried when my doctor told me I could start. I've still got a LONG road to recovery ahead of me.
