Collarbone update number 3:

[Prince33Sp4rkle]

So.... My op was cancelled not once but twice (!) but I was eventually plated on tues and came home on wed.

Wed/Thursday I was fairly groggy but managed to potter round the yard doing some one handed weeding etc. Friday much better,watched Goofy being worked and taught one.

Today nearly back to normal as far as I can with no right arm! I can do bits and bobs round the yard and have three to teach later.

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Monday is first physio session ( with the guy who used to be team physio for tigers rugby team so he KNOWS collarbones!) ......in its self the break/plate feels good-very little pain and very stable but I know the real battle is range of movement and stiffness/muscle wastage.

I remain with that arm immobilised until Monday and will see what physio has to say then as the dear old NHS told me it would be immobilised for 4 weeks and I wouldn't be riding for 4 months! Tbh I was incredibly disappointed with the entire experience.....an entire day with no pain relief offered and watching the elderly struggle to eat,drink and left laying in their own mess really upset me. I rang my buzzer repeatedly to draw attention to other people

Super physio not impressed with the absolute lack of exercises given for wrist/elbow,lack of discharge notes,and general lack of interest in someone who wants to be better ASAP. They tried to sign me off work for 6 weeks!!!! But I'll be heading to my GP to get a fit note next week so I'll have had 10 days off post op.

So that's where I am. I look at my beautiful boy every day and just want to be riding him his replacement jockey starts next week so by the time I AM ready to ride him he will be ready for his invalid mother!!!!! NMT is doing a sterling job of keeping him bobbing along so at least this time hasn't been wasted for him

#comeoncollarbone!!!!!

 

[EventingMum]

Good luck. Having had two shoulder ops I know how frustrating being one handed can be - you have to be quite inventive!

 

[PorkChop]

Glad the op went well, the time will fly by and you will be back on board

 

[philamena]

Good luck. Beast the physio. It's the immobility which causes the problems and you'll def need to look after your elbow through physio...

 

[spookypony]

Glad you've had the op! It's super frustrating recovering from injury if one isn't aiming for "functioning enough to get by" but with proper grown-up performance expectations. When I had a dislocated finger, I had a hard time getting people to understand that for a professional-level keyboard player, the exercises suggested barely scratched the surface (I overtook them about a week into the rehab, to the physio's astonishment), and about 2.5 years later, I can still feel the effects of the injury, which anyone in another field would think of as very minor. Get your rugby physio mannie on board, and try to communicate as well as possible regarding the level of performance to which you need to return! And think laterally: what sort of riding-related exercise or movement could complement the physio exercises? (For me, it was finger exercises at the clavichord that did the trick.)