{"id":2125,"date":"2008-03-18T15:44:00","date_gmt":"2008-03-18T15:44:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/delascabezas.com\/blog\/index.php\/2019\/02\/20\/this-is-gonna-cost-me-what\/"},"modified":"2019-02-20T21:57:14","modified_gmt":"2019-02-20T21:57:14","slug":"this-is-gonna-cost-me-what","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/delascabezas.com\/blog\/index.php\/2008\/03\/18\/this-is-gonna-cost-me-what\/","title":{"rendered":"this is gonna cost me what?!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>so there is a possibility my <a href=\"http:\/\/www.eorthopod.com\/images\/ContentImages\/elbow\/elbow_radial_tunnel\/elbow_radtun_anatomy02.jpg\" data-rel=\"lightbox-image-0\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\" title=\"\">radial nerve<\/a> is  involden in my injury.<br \/>\naccording to my latest batch of xrays, my break point is such that the nerve is either:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li> inside the break <\/li>\n<li> a few mm above the start of the break <\/li>\n<li> out of place as a result of tissue trauma cased by torque of the break <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>given the potential side effects of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nlm.nih.gov\/medlineplus\/ency\/article\/000790.htm\">radial nerve dysfunction<\/a>, the doc is suggesting surgery.  he said i could also just let it heal naturally, but they would need to re-set the bone for that to be ok.  that leaves me with a 33% chance of nerve damage according to my options above if i have them re-set blind. they did a partial reset today, so i have a new cast, and i am a lil more comfortabe, but a lot more worried.<\/p>\n<p>surgery is gonna be large. shoulder to elbow incision &#8211; plate + screws, along with all the other lovely risks associated w\/ surgery _and_ there is still a chance of nerve damage if something\/someone fucks up.<\/p>\n<p>if i waiit and try natural healing, that will make the surgery harder if they have to do it, esp. since the nreve will prolly get covered in new bone.<\/p>\n<p>part of me wants to say ff this, refill my oxycodine scrip, and deal with it when i get back from cali&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/flickr.com\/photos\/murkatos\/sets\/72157604153994201\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm3.static.flickr.com\/2394\/2342966493_26aae0416b.jpg?v=1205872690\"><\/a><br \/>\nclick the xray for more&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>so there is a possibility my radial nerve is involden in my injury. according to my latest batch of xrays, my break point is such<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"chat","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[440],"class_list":["post-2125","post","type-post","status-publish","format-chat","hentry","tag-not-pleased","post_format-post-format-chat"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/delascabezas.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2125","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/delascabezas.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/delascabezas.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/delascabezas.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/delascabezas.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2125"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/delascabezas.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2125\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4698,"href":"https:\/\/delascabezas.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2125\/revisions\/4698"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/delascabezas.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2125"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/delascabezas.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2125"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/delascabezas.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2125"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}