distal radius fracture

a lot of time on my hands to research my injury.  this is my ER x-ray showing a barton or die punch fracture of the distal radius oi my right arm.  i am right handed.   my left wrist is also sprained, doing any thing is difficult.

i have a long splint on my right arm that imobilizes my wrist and elbow.  i can move my fingers but i am not supposed to use them.   i'm not getting much help from anyone, my house is getting messy, i had to get my hair cut off and i don't eat until 3pm when my 11 year old gets home from school but the percodan keeps me from getting too hungry.  highlight of today was getting my fingernails trimmed.   i am weaning if the pain pills but that means the mania symptoms are coming back.  life is pretty shitty at the moment..  speaking of the toilet is clogged and the dryer is broken.  since i am the only one who does much work in my houshold they won't get fixed any time soon.  i'm pretty upset at the lack of help i am getting, but i am getting better.

post surgical pain was very bad just like i remembered my ankle surgery to be. only having a baby hurts worse.   i took my bike to the shop and got it worked on before i realized how hurt i was.  still family came first so i rode my bike with a broken wrist to where i was supposed to meet my husband to get my daughter.  when he did not show i hads a passerby lock up my bike and i walked to the campus healthcare center.

they said that i needed to go to the er so my husband picked up me and both kids and dumped us at the er and he returned to work.  dumped at the er with two kids and a broken arm, my care has not improved much since then.

ICE in the skok valley

From seattle indymedia:

13 people detained on Oct. 15th.


12-13 people were detained when they were coming out from picking salal, on the afternoon of Oct 15th. The detentions happened on Skokomish Valley Road, 5 miles in from Highway 101. The Forest Service Enforcement first stopped two vans with brush harvesters, at about 4 p.m. People at both vans had permits to harvest salal. Other vans came after them but they were not stopped. The Forest Service Enforcement held people for about 4 hours, until ICE came to take them, at about 8 pm.

The 12-13 detainees were taken to Port Angeles initially, but all of them seem to have been transferred to the detention center in Tacoma. They are all Mam Guatemalans. Most of them have already signed the voluntary departure. 2 or 3 are waiting to see a lawyer.

This is not an isolated incident. It seems to be part of an on-going collaboration between the Forest Service and ICE. On the days that people go to the FS office in Quilcene to get brush harvesting permits, ICE is present. When people get there, the FS first revise their documents and then they go to the ICE people for a second screening. Harvesters said that ICE is collecting their names, addresses and other personal information. They take photos and videos. FSE is now frequently waiting for people when they come out of harvesting salal. Harvesters are first detained by FSE and then turned in to ICE. We did not know that ICE now had an office in Port Angeles, but in recent times several people has been taken there before being transferred to the Tacoma Detention Center.

There was a recent incident where another Guatemalan woman witnessed how ICE agents beat up, until bleeding, a 17 year old who was hiding underneath the seat of a van while other were being arrested. They also hit a woman.

dvr plate

DVR plate    

Is what i had done warning it gets graphic if you don't tolerate surgical images well.

swollen blue fingers

blue from the topical germ killer

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crashed my bike, shattered my wrist, sprained the other.  surgery this week.  Too manic to be safe on even a bike.   Dropped out of college for the quarter at least.  difficult too post here w/o a good hand to type with.    Hope to be back posting in a few weeks.