KiwiCat's updates

Six and a half weeks ago I had the second  hand surgery. Since then I’ve been healing up and going to the hand physio regularly.  While I’ve been disappointed by the limited range of movement, I’ve been pleased with the removal of pain and the nice way the scar has healed. I’m back to over 80 words per minute in touch typing, with 98% accuracy – at least in short bursts, I tire after about 3 minutes of continuous typing and slow down – so overall I’m happy with where we’re at.

Today I had my 6 week appointment with Simon, the hand surgeon. He took one look, frowned, and basically said ‘we can do better’.

With some local anaesthetic in place he has done a bit of prodding and pushing and has confirmed that the problem is a particular tendon. He thinks it’s caught on or by some scar tissue. He wants to give it a few more months for the scar tissue to settle down, then see me again, potentially looking at another surgery to free up the tendon. In the meantime I need to be carrying on with the physio and it might free itself and save me another operation.

In other unrelated news, I want met curtains in the office to handle the light coming in from the side or reflecting off the neighbour’s window behind my sreen. And while of course I could uy them, I’ve decided to make them myself.

It’s a folly but it’s making me happy and it was done quicker than I expected.  On to the bigger window next.