My left wrist was broken

About mid-night on July 22nd, 2010, I was running outside, fell, and broke both my ulna and radius bones in my left wrist. Actually my radius was shattered into 8 pieces. I initially was taken Tacoma General Hospital and was admitted 3 days. I left with titanium road contacted to my hand and upper arm but running on the outside length. A week later during a follow up visit, the unwrapped my arm and I was horrified because my arm looked terribly deformed because the hadn't actually repaired the fractures. The treating physician said my wrist so shattered and inflammed that there wasn't they could do, and it probably be 2 weeks before they would be able to get me into surgery again! Shocked, I left the hospital on the 30th, and went to Virginia Mason Hospital in Seattle for a 2nd opinion. What a blessing. They took xrays, and told me I needed immediate surgery to plate the radius fractures. On August I had surgery. Since my surgery, I have made tremendous progress. I still have a large lump just behind my left wrist from where the ulna went thru, but the radius is solid and stable now. I doing physical therapy twice a week to get the range of motion back in my fingers and wrist. I progressing...