Damn, that's a lot of screws. Good luck with recovery.

The postscript to my last few posts from 2019 is that despite what the ortho thought my EPL must have been hanging on by a thread. It's...

Update:

Full EPL rupture confirmed. No MRI or ultrasound, in the surgeon's words "it's clearly gone." Surgeon also said my thumb function is "shockingly" good for this injury and recommended not...

Update:

3 weeks in the brace and taking it as easy as I possibly can and the swelling is almost gone. Despite that, I still have no snuff box to speak of. My Holiday Inn Express/Google U...

Yeah, sure, I can ski fine with the brace. Should I ski is another question entirely. I'm sure any doc is going to advise me not to. It seems like a big gamble since I could be putting not only...

I started wearing a brace on Monday. I'm working on a bike project and did a lot of sanding and buffing over the weekend which did it no favors. Reading up on common soft tissue wrist injuries a...

No numbness/tingling for me. That was the (very old) OP.

No, no real pain in the snuff box to speak of. Xrays were taken 12 days after the injury, seems like it would have shown up by then.

Decadal bump:

So, took the kiddo skiing back on Dec. 27. Skied hard for about 3 hours, jumped off lots of stuff, etc. One little tumble but nothing serious. Everything feels completely normal...