Hi, Been a while since posting, I have been off line most of summer. This was meant to be a busy year with weekly track and field competitions including travel to the Masters World Track and Field competition in Sweden. I did an early season meet in June with fair to good results in my events (Javelin, shot put and long jump) and was looking forward to the rest of the season meeting competitors from past meets again. The week before I was to start my summer series of meets I broke my right wrist and yes I am right handed. Unfortunately I am not all that ambidextrous. 😜 I can in no way throw the javelin left handed and the surgeon said no way was I to long jump which left me with throwing the shot put left handed. I canceled all my events except the one in Sweden as I had already paid for the trip. My wrist surgeon gave me the ok to fly 6 weeks post op and we headed off to Sweden via a few stops in Europe. We had a great trip with no additional wear and tear on my wrist. The Event was great fun and a friend from Stockholm traveled to the games to watch me and hang out with my kid. I was very proud to be chosen with 3 other USA military veterans to carry the USA flag in during the parade of athletes what a great memory that will continue to be. My performance was nothing to write home about but at least I made it and competed which was a great experience, I look forward to the 2026 World Masters Championships. after returning from our trip, I was given the green light to start my regular training and strength routine again, its a slow path back to where I was but I am making weekly gains. Unfortunately the wrist has not come back to full range of motion and I will see a specialist soon to find out if additional surgery is required or if this is as good as it gets. I am pretty sure another surgery is going to be required and do not look forward to it. But in the big scope of things its just one more step to get over and I have come back from not training post surgery before and I can do it again if needs be. Hope your summers went well. CG cygo Wow, this is impressive, and a great picture! Colostomy 4/30/18. Holy smokes! Wow! I'm sorry to hear about your wrist. That would have been incredibly disappointing for anyone in your situation, but I'm happy that it didn't spoil the trip. Losing the ability to use your dominant arm is awful. When I broke my shoulder, of course, it was my left one (I'm left-handed), so that was an extra layer of challenge! Athlete and military veteran? Kudos! 👍 👍 Just your friendly neighborhood ostomate. Wow! I'm so sorry to hear you busted your wrist, made worse, that a second surgery may be required. How exciting you were chosen to carry the Flag!! When you said Sweden, my heart did a little flutter! I'd just love to go there someday. I hope you heal up really well & as another experienced dominat hand injury person, who busted her wrist, had over 2 months in cast and 3 hand surgeries behind her, I can tell you... work the physiotherapist hard on making sure you gain it all back. Let me encourage you that it may take time, excericing & hot & cold packs, but it is SO VERY POSSIBLE and extremely worth the work!! You know all about hard work and accomplishments, so, this too, is something you can succeed at also. Stay strong & best wishes on healing up real good!! Keep us in the loop on how the healing goes. I'll keep you in my prayers if that's okay? A little tip... for those times you're rubbing you wrist & hand a lot, Amazon carries a nice elastic set of soft, not sweaty, fingertip-less gloves to give your hand a gentle hug. The warmth I get from them is so settling to the aches. Keeping in mind I'm 66 with arthrits now, so these silly looking gloves in several nice colours do help a lot, esp. At night! I wear fancy colours at night & for going out, but my black ones are all business & truly help with housework & gardening aches, you can buy non-slip also. I ordered a size larger to get my last finger joints covered as well as a little longer for wrist coverage. I truly hope you don't need them! 🤎 Linda
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