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pivey
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Mod, et al, wondering about how fake I am (lololol)
pivey
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Miss.Modular:
</p><p>wait a minute. what accident caused this? and you have a prothetic what? the bone in your arm? or something else? How did the dr continue with your eyes if you were in such pain? TELL ME MORE INFO! <br></p><p>Aside from being ripped open from stem to stern in an attempt to have a bebe? Kidding...</p><p>I broke every.single.bone in my right wrist and forearm. I have to have a complete wrist replacement and have a completely artificial bone structure from my mid arm through the middle of my hand. It was my dominant hand. I was NOT told by the doctor, though my mother was, that I would never, ever be able to use my wrist, hand, or arm in any normal fashion ever again. I am a belligerent SOB (in case you hadn't noticed) and taught myself to be ambidextrous, not take any painkillers (because drinking was more important and it was my freshman year of college), and within 6 months of doing physical therapy I asked to stop because it was boring and useless. I went to the doctor, who examined me, and, when I showed him I had complete and full use of my wrist he stepped back 2 steps, welled up in tears, and openly showed his shock, which, again, I didn't know was possible because I didn't know I was supposed to be a cripple. And you can ask any of the girls at the GTG we had, no one knows I have a prosthetic. </p><p>TA DA!</p><p>I also mangled my face in that accident but that isn't visible either. </p><p>And I had lasik without pain killers in my eyes. Major oops on the doctors part. It was a pain worse that a hundred labors and what I meditated on during med free labor... <br></p><p> </p><p>
1) I have a prosthetic wrist/arm/hand/ It starts at my mid arm, replaces all of my wrist and then rejoins my hand/each of my fingers. Its amazing shiit really...I actually almost worked for the company that made my write too (weird enough). So my entire wrist, part of my arm, and part of my hand. To do the surgery they had to remove all the bones and then carefully (duh) rework all the nerves, muscles, etc over and through the new fake stuff. There is a wiring deal that connects into my *if I remember right* nerves/short twitch muscles, which controls part of the electronically motivated part of my wrist - the part that controls the left side, that I had nerve damage to....I can tell you when it is goign to rain though! Wheee. And I have a fun, albeit subtle scar. You can tell how anal my doc is by how perfect the scar line is.
The only issue I had was a weird thing where the one nerve would click over a pin and I would get a pain that can only be described as being shot by lightening randomly from my head to my left toes...I got to watch the surgery to take that pin our though, it was awesome. Then again, I'm the freak who wanted to watch her own c-section...
2) The lasik, ugh, they left me mid "numbing" because of an emergency and forgot to finish up. I didn't know. During the surgery the pain from the laser being shot in my eye was so intense I was passing out and they kept saying look at the light but I couldn't because I was "white-ing out", as in I was in so much pain all I could see was white light. I had to do corrective surgery...of course...and my mom went in with me to hold me down because I seriously wanted to run every 2 seconds...that time I got some sedatives because I was freaking my shiit out - and that was after my wrist...
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Re: Mod, et al, wondering about how fake I am (lololol)
I was on a bike, tried to go up a curb, missed, flew over handlebars into a wrought iron fence. I then dragged my bike, and me, bleeding, around the fence and up the stairs into a Bank Of America, where I asked them to call an ambulance. They said I was fine, gave me some ice...and finally called - when I showed my backwards and hanging (gag) hand...
I'm in a medical journal somewhere...I'll find it...
Hilarious part, the doctor's partner, a leg/keee dude, was named Dr. Hand. hahaha
Yes this!
the lasik story is creeping me out. I had lasik in March 2008.. i could not imagine feeling the pain. That would be the most fvcked up thing ever, because you wouldn't want to move because there is a LASER IN YOUR EYE!!!!
You are officially my hero.