I Broke My Wrist (Pt 3)

I had my wrist surgery two days ago. They performed an internal fixation with a titanium Herbert screw. Today I met with my physical therapist and got a pretty neat thermoplastic splint, as pictured below.

a great image

On Monday I'll meet with my doctor and find out more about the timeline for physical therapy and splint removal. The physical therapist I talked to today told me that it's likely that I'll be in the splint for another eight weeks (although it's too early now to really know). Because the scaphoid bone has so little blood flow it takes longer to heal than most other fractures. After the splint is onde I'll still have more physical therapy while I regain full mobility.

I'm pretty over sitting around and not being able to do anything, so I think I'm going to start biking to work (very carefully) again soon.