Tuesday, November 02, 2004
Since so many have asked, here's the deal on my elbow. I tripped over a little chain barrier on my way to grab some sushi at work, got my right foot caught, and sent my entire weight crashing on to my left elbow. It didn't really hurt at the time (the priority then was more "get up quick and pretend you're OK!"), but when I realised I couldn't lift my left arm up to the keyboard I figured I should see a doctor. 24 hours and two dodgy X-Rays later (look, the arm is all sore and swollen, I'm not being difficult when I say I can't physically lay it flat for the X-Ray), they told me that they suspected a fractured elbow. Helpfully they also said that in a week I'll either be in immense pain or perfectly fine.
The prognosis is that I have my arm in a sling until I'm physically able to move it around, which should be a few weeks since they don't think it's too serious. On the flipside, I cannot type properly (all this is coming from one hand) and I can't play games. Can't in theory anyway -- I can hold and use a controller but it hurts like hell and makes it worse the next day. Which isn't good.
So in response to that... I'm getting really good at driving wuth one hand in GTA: San Andreas!
Posted at 5:03 AM
