Well I know that I’ve been negligent with my blog updates, but I wanted to update everyone about my fractured shoulder. On Oct. 3, I had gone to the nearby Sunflower Grocery Store on my scooter, but on the way back I was suddenly caught up in a very heavy rain. Within about half a block (on McLeod), I was engulfed with rain so hard that I could not see what was in front of me. When I did see, I was close enough to a stop sign (at Harmon) that I had to brake. Even though I’d slowed, I was not able to keep the scooter from siding out from under me. I was less than a block from the house. A person stopped and helped move my scooter off the road, and although I was OK enough to get up, I could not move my right arm without intense pain. I thought I had just dislocated it because of where the pain was, but after being xrayed at the Desert Spring Emergency room, I learned that the arm was fracture just below where the ball is for joint. Right where it says “Surgical Neck” on the diagram below:
I have already made one doctor’s visit to re-xray the break and it is healing well. I’m in fact making this entry using my right arm out of the sling. (They do not cast this type of break.) I should be back to work at the end of this month.
