THE BACK OF THE MEDIC

Healing continues

23 February 2010

My arm is better and better every day. I worked this past weekend, and didn’t even give it second thought when we lifted a patient that we had c-spined. I just sent an email to my ortho asking if I can start riding and strength train my arm again. Here’s hoping for good news!

Missing my ride

18 February 2010

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I miss being on my bike. I miss the wind in my hair. I miss the feel of the trail as I ride. I miss the sounds all around me. The stationary bike just doesn’t do it for me. Soon, we will be reunited. And I will ride again. Maybe tomorrow. Definitely tomorrow!

And the news on my elbow is…

11 February 2010

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GREAT! Fantastic! Incredible! Well, maybe not incredible, but great and fantastic. I saw my orthopedist today, had more x-rays of my elbow, and I found out that: The bone spur (called an osteophyte, by the way) is resorbing (going away). The contusion was significant. I saw the MRI myself today. It takes time for that [...]

Welcome to the new incarnation of “Back of the Medic”!

11 February 2010

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For a while now, I have been meaning to move my blog from Blogger to WordPress. And I procrastinated. For years. However, a recent email from Blogger made me re-think my procrastination. They let me and many other Blogger members who use their FTP function to post our blogs on our own domains that they [...]

Elbow Update: I am hardware free!

6 February 2010

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I went to a massage appointment today, mostly to get the crud out of my muscles. I picked up a bug recently, and was left pretty sore everywhere by it. But I had the CMT work on my left arm as well (not around the elbow, but all the muscles around it), and my shoulder. [...]