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Radial Head Fracture

Well... the day start smoothly enough. My arm was feeling pretty good. I went to the PA and he said it was progressing nicely, to take it out of the splint casty thing as much as I wanted and by the end of the week I should be in pretty good shape.

I went home and he called. I answered. Reluctantly. He said the radiology report came in and that little thing that might have been a fracture needed more film taken of it. So I went in for more films. These they couldn't have taken Friday, on accounta I woulda screamed bloody murder. I looked at the four additional films and saw as plain as day in one of them a nice clear crack. Shit. The PA wanted to cast my whole arm. The orthopod said nah...keep it immobile w/ a splint and ace and keep it in a sling for a few weeks, then start PT.

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