The Broken Arm Weekend!

A illustration by Jainal Amambing

Jainal is going to illustrate one of the stories

   This is going to be short and sweet this week as this is my first attempt at using a computer since I broke my arm on Friday. Early Friday morning I thought I would finish painting above the window in preparation for Tanya and Anthony's visit. The chair gave way and next thing I knew I was crashing down to the tiled floor and landed on my right upper arm. It took me quite a while to get up but managed to get round to my neighbours who very kindly drove me to the local Tuaran hospital where I waited in line and eventually was x-rayed. Yes a clean fracture upper humerus......I would have to go to KK to see an orthopedic specialist however the next appointment he had free was next Thursday! So they strapped me up gave me another injection of a pain killer and said I could go. When I told my boss what had happened she said "you have to go private - that's what the BUPA is for!"
  So to cut a long story short I ended up in a very upmarket hospital in KK - a sharp contrast to Tuaran's - and was prepped to go into surgery at 7 pm to have my arm reset by an orthopedic specialist. "Where did you do your training?" I asked as he had a very British accent "UK, Belfast"he replied and then we started...! Not only had he known my father when he was a medical student at Queens but we had gone to the same school and had friends in common. He had been a boarder and had been great friends with the Elliot's who were also great friends of mine. He of course is Malaysian but had spent many years in Northern Ireland and had a great Ulster accent!The nurses stood by while we chatted away and I was supposedly breathing in gas and air and by the time it was finished I felt I had made another new friend!Every cloud has a silver lining.

 I will be in plaster for 6 weeks and I'm just trying to work out what I can do and can't. I can type slowly if I put the computer on a cushion but I won't be able to drive and do many things with my right arm. However I'm feeling fine and not in any pain since it was reset so it's just a nuisance and it could have been worse!