Broken wrist (update no 2)

[Airhostess.]

Hello everyone,
Well "hopefully" my last update on this, the splints, cast, thingy has been off for a few weeks now the wrist has healed, however i am finding it hard to twist the wrist around a guitar neck so more excercises needed, and now with very soft fingertips to add to the problem,typing is ok now with two hands but holding the wrist out straight to use the keyboard can be tiring and takes time to type anything other than a sentance or two.

I have a two or three sound  files made before the break, plus some back catalogue i may decide to post to give me some more time to see how or how not my playing will progress before trying anything new to post  after the break, also being shut in and couldn't drive (manual transmission),hasn't done my mental health much good and i have seemed to have lost my mojo,get up and go has got up and left  so that's another hurdle to jump.

Anyway .....enough waffle from me, just to say thank you to all my friends for their support,and anything i post until further notice will be "pre break"

my best wishes to all

Kay x

[Stu's Dad]

Nice to hear from you Kay, I did wonder where you were. I know what you mean about your mental health, I was fairly sanguine about the lockdown, only to realise later that it's taken away a lot of my zing. As of next week I can retrain in living a normal life and getting back to being myself. Can you get physiotherapy for your wrist? I don't believe it's the cure all that some think it is, but I think it may well help in your case.

My cure for soft fingers is to play something with a lot of bends on my acoustic. It gets all the pain out of the way quicker.

Take good care of yourself,

Len
x

[trevor]

Hello Kay, just to give you a bit of positivity while you are recuperating, I’m a member of a guitar club called “The Tyneside Shadows guitar club” and among the members is a lovely lady called Margaret (her husband Jim is also a member, nice guy also) a while ago, I don’t know the exact circumstances, Margaret had an accident and also broke her wrist, she had a scaffold arrangement fitted around her wrist for a while but the outcome was, as far as I am aware, she is playing guitar as good as before (actually better than me). So as much as it is a nuisance for you at this time, I’m sure you will be back to playing in no time and I suppose the actual physicality of playing the guitar is in itself a physio workout, anyhow, hope you are soon feeling better and healing well. Trev.

[Airhostess.]

Hi Len,
Thanks for that most appreciated,as far as lockdown went reallt didnt bother me at all i could drive to the market so i was out and using my car or playing the guitar or being in the garden doing somthing or other............bvut the "break" stopped All of that and that's what has got to me.......... still on the mend now and we will see how things go

thanks len
best wishes

Kay


Hi Trevor
very many thanks for getting intouch,yes mine was soet of a scaffold thing with two flat steel bars in both sifdes of the cast@ what ever it was called I could however take it off briefly wo shower or wash my hands and fix it back on .that was a job in its self still ime almost back firing on most cylinders,

best wishes Trevor

Kay

Thanks Jason for the thunbs up
best wishes

Kay

[derekdelboy]

Hi Kay

Just checking up on you !!

How is it ? Improving ?

Take care .. we all can wait !!

Derek

[Airhostess.]

Hi Derek,
Thanks so much for asking about me,and yes the wrist is getting more supple to twist it round the guitar neck which is good, however couple of setbacks have appeared

1 soft sore finger tips......ongoing repair work to that.

2 I slipped in the shower a few days back and put my right hand out to save the left one getting re broken ,and bent the right one badly, to wit, one very badly sprained right wrist so although the left can get around the guitar neck with a bit of trouble, i cant now hold a pick in my right, so back to the drawing board for a couple more weeks
still as Mr Clarkson says...........could be worse......

Thanks again Derek for taking the time to call me

best wishes

Kay

[istvan]

Hi Kay!
I hope slowly will be better!
Play,but not too much!
Best wishes!
Istvan

[Airhostess.]

Hi Istvan,
Thank you so much for thinking about me,yes its almost back to normal now, i have just got to get past the "i can do it " bit of my brain which is slowing me down

Best wishes

Kay

[Roger...]

Hi Kay,

So sorry to hear about your wrist accident and then the set-back following it. Perhaps getting back to the guitar slowly and gently is the answer, but of course you will know best. Meanwhile, try to settle for the offerings that the other members happily bring you.

Take care now.

Roger

[gersanders]

Hi Kay,
Sorry to hear about your problems and hope you will receover quickly.
All the best,
Ger

[Airhostess.]

Hi Roger
Hi Ger

Thanks so much for you kind wishes and concern,thankfully I am physically pretty much mended, I just need to get my head around playing again without making tons of mistakes and thats a real bear, but as the old saying goes...slowly, slowly,.... catchy "Hanky"

thanks again guys

Best wishes

Kay