[DreamPoet]

I haven't posted on here for a while, but I check it every once in a while. Here's a quote from my first post on this site back in July 2007:

I broke my left scaphoid bone (wrist bone) in half in October 2006. Three weeks later I had surgery to fix it. I was in a cast for about six weeks after surgery then started PT where they treated me with heat and ice, along with exercises. The pain and swelling were horrible, and the PT was concerned...even suggested that I could have RSD. Finally, after feeling my doctor was not being truthful with me, I went to a hand specialist in March. To make a long story a little shorter, the first doc had put the screw in at the wrong angle and it was stabbing through the bone and grinding into another bone. I finaaly had surgery June 22 to remove the screw, which miraculously he was able to remove without removing the bone. My wrist had been immobilized from March 6 to July 6...plus the two months before and after the original surgery that messed everything up. The screw did a lot of damage.

I started hand rehabilitation therapy last week, and the PT told me I have RSD. I think my doc may have mentioned it, too, the day the bandages came off. They used ice on my wrist at the end of therapy last Wednesday, and the swelling and stiffness have been really bad ever since...no matter how much I do the exercises and stretches.

My family doc told me a little over a year ago that I have fibromyalgia.

Well, I just had to have surgery again two days ago cuz my scaphoid bone died and my body was trying to reject it. They had to remove three wrist bones and some damaged nerve, and attached the ligaments and stuff to the radius and ulna (arm bones). Pain is major right now...so is swelling...and the vicodin isn't touching it. It's in a half-cast splint with huge bandages. They tell me to ice it, but I'm wondering if that's causing more problems. I know that I couldn't handle ice if the bandages weren't in the way. Any thoughts?