What a way to start a year!

My sister is now calling me Grace Jr. (Clutz Jr works too.) At the point I was about 3, my mom took my tricycle down the driveway and broke it...and her wrist if I remember right. She also walked into a rake that year...and something else happened. It was a family joke for awhile. We called her Grace.

On Saturday January 5, we went cross-country skiing. It was my technically my second time out this year but my first real loop.

On my way down the first hill, my foot went out from under me and I flipped backwards and braced myself on my left thumb. Ow. It started to hurt right away, but I tried to work through the pain and prepared for some ibuprofen later.It was still swollen on Monday morning, so I decided to call the doc. They worked me in (strange! I thought...it's probably just a sprain...) Three cool digital x-rays later I had an appointment at an orthopedic specialist...and surgery was the following afternoon. In a word YIKES!!!!I broke the bone where the ligament is. I was in a lovely splint for a day that I'll probably use after my cast is off.

I don't have a picture of the splint they had me in, but was a piece of plastic that was molded to my hand. I wore it from Monday afternoon to Tuesday afternoon.

Tuesday, I inherited this monster. I said I felt like I was carrying something out of the Flinstones and started called it Bam Bam. On January 16, a friend saw it and said "It's a hermit crab." She was right!!!

I typed with it this way.

Today, after calling the office Saturday Jan 12, Monday Jan 14 and the night of Jan 15 due to pain, tremors and muscle spasms, I "graduated" to this lovely cast with the color chosen by Miss Hannah (who was home "sick" from school and went with me.)

I can now almost type normally...

I posted this on Snapfish as my "cast" album too and my sister said "Cast of thousands..." Scott thought it was funny that I put a cast album on Snapfish.

Quite an adventure!