Tomorrow. 01 March 2019. Tomorrow, a Friday, I get to take off my thumb spika splint and begin to carefully rehabilitate my thumb, wrist, and hand for climbing. The best place to do that will be at the climbing gym! I’m entering this phase of recovery with trepidation and excitement both. I know that it’s extremely risky and reinjury is something I’m really going to have to guard against. I’m going to have to do a lot of hydrotherapy for inflammation, I have a feeling… I don’t take any anti-inflammatories because of some interactions with other medications that I take and my body’s response to some of them. That’s both comforting and disconcerting. I will take acetaminophen if I need to, but as a last resort. I just hope that I have a smooth recovery and that I DO fully recover full use of my left hand. That’s the question. It doesn’t function to do much of anything right now and there’s a lot of pain there. This rehabilitation process is going to be a slow, cautious one, and one involving a lot of prayer and small gains over a long period of time. Like I said, nobody knows if I’ll regain FULL function of my left hand, wrist, and thumb. Time will tell… If I have anything to say or do about it, though, I’ll be climbing regardless of whether or not I have “full function”. I will find a way! The stone in my blood will make sure of that!
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I try to keep the content of my posts in the PG range (meaning that maybe your 13-year-old should not read it... Just kidding!) - you know, something I could get away with tastefully in the town square without getting lynched, tarred-and-feathered, or hung (and something my mother would NOT wash my mouth out with soap for). As far as what age you have to be to understand some of the subtleties of my humor in writing and/or speaking, well... That may vary. A lot.
CLIMBING 4 THE REST OF US 