UPDATE on My Broken Arm

Well, here we are in week 4 of healing from a fractured humerus. Although I am getting better and the pain has lessened since that first (horrible) week, there are some days it seems like I am going backwards in my healing, usually when I have tried to do too much.

For example: I noticed that the wild bird feeders hanging from the huge pine tree in our front yard had become almost empty.  I had asked my husband to fill them, but with all of the extra stuff he has had to do since my fall, this was not a priority for him. I totally get that.

Still, I felt bad that "my" birds were running low on seed. So, I tossed on my boots and jacket, with the container of bird seed in my left arm (the one I didn't break) and proceeded on a mission to fill the bird feeders.

Ordinarily, this task would have been easy as pie but with my injured right arm in a sling and a terrible fear of falling again, it was exhausting. One of the feeders requires two hands to fill....one to lift up the little roof and the other to pour.  Don't ask me how I did it with one hand.  Sheer (and stupid) determination, I guess.

That's when my pain started coming back in my broken arm. Add to that cutting some fabric, making a batch of porridge and taking pictures for my etsy shop and it was more than my poor little arm could stand. The pain came back in waves and I was so scared that I had re-injured myself.

But after a night's sleep (which is now 4 hours if I'm lucky) the pain has subsided again and I am feeling better. I will try to take it easier. More t.v. watching and resting for this gal today.

This was a (very) long-winded way of saying that even though I am slowly getting better, I am not ready to go back to work....to my shop. Nor can I drive yet.

It will be 4 weeks this Friday and they say it takes 4-8 weeks to heal well enough to start getting back to normal but a year or more to be fully healed. I am praying and hoping that I can re-open Tattered Rose really soon.

Stay tuned...........miss you all!
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