Comments on: Pandering

By: Kryten42

Kryten42 — Sat, 19 Jul 2008 12:18:39 +0000

Thanks Michael. I really do know how she feels!

I don’t want to add any worries… But Bryan is right about it taking longer. When I did my shoulder about 12 years ago, it took a few months before I could even begin to use it, and I had some pain and discomfort for a couple years after (usually because I’d forget and try to use my arm in ways I couldn’t easily use it any more, like playing ball with the kids, or reaching up on a high shelf for something). Sometimes it would ache when I woke up in the morning and ache most of the day. It doesn’t hurt any more, but I still can’t use it as well as I used to. I just had the cast taken off my thumb, and I can’t bend it very far, and it still aches. It may be some time before I can use it properly.

I just thought I’d let you know my experience. I truly hope your wife has better luck and care and has a better recovery. Physiotherapy is a lot better these days. 🙂

All the best m8! At least she has something I didn’t have. Someone there to help. 🙂

By: Michael

Michael — Sat, 19 Jul 2008 07:23:52 +0000

I’m sure the orthopedist will send her to physical therapy for awhile at least. Fortunately it was her left shoulder and she’s right handed, which doesn’t make it hurt any less.

By: Bryan

Bryan — Sat, 19 Jul 2008 04:06:55 +0000

I hate to be a downer, Michael, but it will be a lot longer for a dislocation to heal than a break because tendons get stretched. Even after it feels alright, it isn’t and you have to be careful for months.

By: Michael

Michael — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 22:12:48 +0000

Kryten42, thanks for the sympathies, I’ll pass them along. Hope your thumb gets better soon.

By: Kryten42

Kryten42 — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 09:35:41 +0000

Sorry to hear about your wife Michael. As someone currently with a dislocated thumb (and I have had a dislocated shoulder years ago), you have my sympathies!

By: Michael

Michael — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 07:42:17 +0000

I had to take my wife to the hospital last night, as she fell and dislocated her shoulder. One of the magazines out in the waiting area was The New Yorker, though not the current issue. So it does get around to places where people may see it, anyhow. (My wife is fine, btw. The shoulder reset itself while we were waiting, she's supposed to follow up with an orthopedist and keep her arm in a sling most of the time but as long as she doesn't reach behind her back she can use her arm in the meantime.) I don't mind being the object of good satire, though I don't think I'm an irony challenged literalist. There actually are some of those, like Scott at World-O-Crap found.

By: Bryan

Bryan — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 04:51:50 +0000

Surely not! He’s a hard working champion of the “little people”. It says so right on his web site.

By: hipparchia

hipparchia — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 04:31:53 +0000

the 'target audience' of the cartoon would be the people who both have the money to spend on expensive magazines and the snobbishness to want to spend their money on expensive magazines. plus, it's the new yorker. anyways, obama's campaign has been especially courting elitists of various stripes, including those who read expensive magazines. the target of the cartoon is quite another animal.

By: Bryan

Bryan — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 20:03:24 +0000

I’m still trying to figure out who is hell is supposed to be affected by the cover. It’s a cartoon!

By: Kryten42

Kryten42 — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 14:36:39 +0000

Jon Stewart gets it right, as usual. :) Jon Stewart Slams the Media for Perpetuating Outrageous Obama Smears Thanks to C&L.