WARNING: ICKY PHOTOS THAT PEOPLE MAY NOT LIKE IN THIS POST.
Two years ago today I broke my wrist. It was a Monday morning, and I had just started a new job the Tuesday before, so I set out nice and early, totally excited about going to work – it was (at the time) the job of my dreams. I went outside, stepped on a piece of concrete, tripped over it and fell. Onto my wrist. At first I didn’t feel anything, didn’t realise I had done anything. I remember sitting back on my heels and feeling my hand droop and when I looked at it, the whole wrist just looked wrong. That was when I started screaming. And the screaming didn’t stop for a while, because that was when the pain set in.
![Me in the hospital with my stuffed wrist Me in the hospital with my stuffed wrist](http://i2.wp.com/www.currently-clueless.net/wp-content/uploads/2010/11/DSCF4425.jpg?resize=300%2C225)
![All wrapped up All wrapped up](http://i2.wp.com/www.currently-clueless.net/wp-content/uploads/2010/11/DSCF4446.jpg?resize=300%2C225)
![My black knuckles from the fall My black knuckles from the fall](http://i0.wp.com/www.currently-clueless.net/wp-content/uploads/2010/11/DSCF4447.jpg?resize=300%2C225)
I had a really long post written out about that day. About how I had to have surgery and I now have a plate in my wrist, about how I have permanent scarring on my wrist where they had to put the plate in, about how the recovery was at times almost as painful as the break itself. I wrote about how I got pneumonia a week after after my wrist broke and ended back up in hospital, but the whole post sounded so whingey. So I scrapped it and just condensed it to this.
![My wrist when the cast first came off. YUCK. My wrist when the cast first came off. YUCK.](http://i2.wp.com/www.currently-clueless.net/wp-content/uploads/2010/11/DSCF4461.jpg?resize=300%2C225)
![X-Ray of the plate in my wrist X-Ray of the plate in my wrist](http://i0.wp.com/www.currently-clueless.net/wp-content/uploads/2010/11/wrist_xray.jpg?resize=300%2C300)
![Blinged the scar up at Christmas Blinged the scar up at Christmas](http://i0.wp.com/www.currently-clueless.net/wp-content/uploads/2010/11/DSCF4503.jpg?resize=300%2C225)
What I really want to say is this. My wrist, in the scheme of things is not a major injury. It’s certainly not as bad as some of the terrible things that happen to people – good people, but to me this was the worst thing that had ever happened. It still continues to give me pain and grief on a daily basis and there are still things that I can’t do. Never take yourself for granted. Do everything that you want to do, today, because you never know when the choice might be taken away from you. I spent nearly two years getting back to being able to cut material out again, and to hold a pair of scissors and cut again, and I still can’t really cut a straight line.
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