Surgery today!!!!

So in a few hours I will be put to sleep and they will cut open my wrist. For those of you who don't know, I had a CT scan done last week and it revealed that I had another fracture in my wrist. So there are two fractures and both are pretty much displaced. I've included a picture of the wrist below. The fracture that we couldn't see on x-rays is a fracture of the capitate (the biggest bone in the wrist), of which the smaller piece has actually rotated 180 degrees. How that happened is beyond me. The other fracture is of the scaphoid. The capitate fracture has made this surgery more difficult for the doctor. The plan is to go in from the top of the wrist and try to pin the two pieces of the capitate together, if he can't pin them he will use surgical wire to put them together. Also, if there are any problems he will also make an incision on the bottom of my wrist to correct it. He will then go ahead and pin the scaphoid bone together and close me up and put me in a cast. The surgery should take about 2 hours and they, of course, will be putting me to sleep. The doc said that I should expect to be in a cast anywhere between 6 weeks and 3 months!! Crazy. Anyway, now ya'll have a good idea of what is going on with the surgery.

Some guys have all the luck...

...and some don't have as much (like myself). I consider myself extremely lucky to have been at the SEC championship game on sunday to see Georgia alter history - Even though they were supposedly not letting in fans because of the change of venue from the Georgia Dome to the Georgia Tech gym. It was awesome to walk right up to the ticket guy and ask for a ticket and be let right in for free!! It was also kind of funny, seeing how I just came from church and was still in my church clothes (minus the tie at this point).

And then for the unlucky portion... on saturday while playing basketball I had a big fall as my legs gotten taken out. I put my hand out to cushion the fall, and it turns out that I'll probably need surgery. I went to the doctor on monday, she recommended going to an orthopedic surgeon. So I went to the orthopedic surgeon today. He recommended surgery because I have a fractured and displaced navicular bone. However, he can't perform this type of surgery and so now I have to go see a hand surgeon tomorrow for a third opinion.

Furthermore, there are other parts of my life (that I won't get into) that also seem to fall on the unlucky side of things. On the bright side, my birthday is this week and March Madness starts too!!

T-Shirts

I know this doesn’t seem like much news, but this week I got two new t-shirts. The exciting thing about this is that they say champions on them, as I played an integral role on two different teams that won the regular season championships and got the #1 seed for the tournament. One of our championships means a little bit more, so let me tell you why. Last week we were sitting at 4-2 and in 3rd place in the top division of one of the leagues I’m in. It was the final night of the regular season games and it so happened that we had to play two games that night, against the two teams that were tied for first place at 6-1. Without getting into too many details, we beat the first team in a very close game 55-53. We were up by 8 or so in the final two minutes but we turned the ball over a few times which allowed them to make it more of a game than it should’ve been. We then had an hour break before we were to play the other team.

This final game we took a small lead into halftime and then blew them out in the second half and won by 18 (75-57), creating a 3-way tie for first place at 6-2. Since each of the three teams had beat each other once it came down to the point differential, which we won by 1.5 points over the team that we had beat by 18 (5.75-4.25). The interesting thing is that we hit a 3 right before the buzzer of that game to give us the 18 point victory and oddly enough, give us the 1.5 differential over the other team. Had we not hit that shot they would’ve had to do some other tie breaker and we may not have been champions. Anyway, I don’t need the t-shirts, but its great to be champions.