How do you take care of your healthy arm?
How do you take care of your healthy arm?
For me it's been a constant awareness to take care of both my arms the TBPI is like a baby...but the healthy arm that does everything, sometimes gets stressed to the max. Over the years I have had a carpal tunnel operation...needed a elow operation, for tennis & golf elbow problems. Did not have it, because it freaked me out, to imagine to be incapacitated for several days with the use of no arms. I'm sure I am not alone with my concerns, at some point we all have been there. Tell me how you take good care of your arm? (P.S. I am not sure if this is a double post..if it is sorry 
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Mardelle
With Peace, Love & Light
Mardelle
Re: How do you take care of your healthy arm?
I have already been treated for trigger finger of my good hand and so far that has been my only problem with the good hand.
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RobertRacer
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- Injury Description, Date, extent, surgical intervention etc: 9/23/07 - LTBPI / Motorcycle collision
- Location: Birmingham, AL
Re: How do you take care of your healthy arm?
Any advice about this for my upcoming disability hearing?
Robert - LTBPI/34/AL - Yamaha meets Ford Expedition....not good.
Re: How do you take care of your healthy arm?
Wow! A trigger finger that must have been difficult.
All nerve related. What did you do to heal this problem?
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Mardelle
All nerve related. What did you do to heal this problem?
With Peace & Light
Mardelle
Re: How do you take care of your healthy arm?
Not sure what specifically I can say to you regarding your disability hearing coming up.
Through my experiences and we are in different countries and my hearings were 22 yrs. ago. When it came to job retaining. The Gov. sent a team of specialists to rehabilitate and retrain me for the workforce. In my case my job was working with numbers. I couldn't remember my own phone or house number without a huge tag in my purse telling me. My healthy arm to drive was also an issue for regular transportation. I needed to test to see if I could drive again. I did test and I'm so happy I drive, but at the end of all their studies of me, the Gov. conculded, I was not retrainable for anything! Due to my brain injury and the short term memory loss, I could not retain information properly, so therefore, I could not be retrained. Gov. wrote me off. I decided to say to heck with them. I opened up a Bed & Breakfast in my old house. Made 10K profit my first year. By year 3 was feeling burnt out...I sold the business on year 4, making 5X what my first year had yield in profit, just by selling my phone number. It was important for me to prove to myself and everyone around me, I could do it. That experience changed how I looked at myself emotionally & financially. Although my work experiences has been very on and off over these years, due to my extensive injuries. I have continued to try to be creative, stay positive, earn cash and feel good about myself in the process.
Getting back to the diability hearing panel question. I guess it depends on the severity of your injury, if you have or will recover and what you did for a living and if you are retrainable? The pain and the pain med's are always an issue in these matters too...as well as your quality of life. If this injury has devestated everything in your life and everyone, there are issues of depression too for some people. I also suffered this...but was fortunate enough to push through it with trying to stay focused on all the good things in my life.
We can only hope for the best with these hearings. I will keep you in my thoughts and prayers.
Good Luck! Keep me posted.
With Peace & Light
Mardelle
Through my experiences and we are in different countries and my hearings were 22 yrs. ago. When it came to job retaining. The Gov. sent a team of specialists to rehabilitate and retrain me for the workforce. In my case my job was working with numbers. I couldn't remember my own phone or house number without a huge tag in my purse telling me. My healthy arm to drive was also an issue for regular transportation. I needed to test to see if I could drive again. I did test and I'm so happy I drive, but at the end of all their studies of me, the Gov. conculded, I was not retrainable for anything! Due to my brain injury and the short term memory loss, I could not retain information properly, so therefore, I could not be retrained. Gov. wrote me off. I decided to say to heck with them. I opened up a Bed & Breakfast in my old house. Made 10K profit my first year. By year 3 was feeling burnt out...I sold the business on year 4, making 5X what my first year had yield in profit, just by selling my phone number. It was important for me to prove to myself and everyone around me, I could do it. That experience changed how I looked at myself emotionally & financially. Although my work experiences has been very on and off over these years, due to my extensive injuries. I have continued to try to be creative, stay positive, earn cash and feel good about myself in the process.
Getting back to the diability hearing panel question. I guess it depends on the severity of your injury, if you have or will recover and what you did for a living and if you are retrainable? The pain and the pain med's are always an issue in these matters too...as well as your quality of life. If this injury has devestated everything in your life and everyone, there are issues of depression too for some people. I also suffered this...but was fortunate enough to push through it with trying to stay focused on all the good things in my life.
We can only hope for the best with these hearings. I will keep you in my thoughts and prayers.
Good Luck! Keep me posted.
With Peace & Light
Mardelle
Re: How do you take care of your healthy arm?
Got a shot into the tendon sheath that releases the tendon. The only other fix long term is to go in and cut the sheath so that the tendon goes through without hanging up in the sheath.
