About four weeks ago or longer I fell and sprained both of my wrists. The left one wasn't so bad, but the right one felt really bad. This happened at Redwood City skatepark. I was trying a double peg to 180 on the tall ledge behind the vert wall. I locked into the double peg, and I was about to pull up and inward for the 180. The instant before I could, my front peg slipped off the side of the ledge. Right when I realized that I was going to hit my face on the cement, I put my hands down to avoid hitting my face. To be honest, at this point I would have rather had a broken nose than two sprained wrists.
Funny thing is that, my left wrist healed on schedule that I thought it would. A week and a half to two weeks. The right wrist on the other hand, is at basically the same state as the left one was when I first hurt it four weeks later. There have been a few days where I have thought that it was past a state of recovery where it would be ok to ride again. I was wrong at least twice.
What happens when I try to ride in this condition is that I have no confidence in my hops or ability to balance on rails at all. When I try to ride, my hop is so off balance that I end up landing front heavy and my wrist must hate me for that. But this is really getting old now.
Four weeks for a sprain to heal seems like a long time for me. So I'm going to see a doctor next week to see if I broke or fractured it. People have told me that I should have done this sooner. The reason why I didn't is because I can't really afford a doctor visit right now, and I didn't think that there was anything wrong. Earlier this week I tried to go the the San Francisco State University student health center.
When I went to the health center they made me take a number and wait to see the next doctor. When it was finally my turn they said that I needed an appointment before I came in, and that I needed to make it on the same day. When you make your appointment you come in, pick a number and then maybe the doctor will see you. This seems like they are practicing nationalized health care. If you want to see how a real hospital will operate with nationalized health care, take a trip to the San Francisco State University health center and tell me if you are still in favor of that idea.
Today I called my doctor who operated on my knee and I have an appointment for an x-ray and diagnosis with no same day appointment, take a number wait, and hope to be helped. There is no clear answer to health care. But to turn the hospital in to a bureaucracy is wrong(not that they almost are), and no ones lives are going to get saved that way. "Are you suffering from blood lose? Take a number, wait in line behind Jill who has a cough. The doctor will be with you shortly." I'm in favor of keeping the system the way it is. Even though I am still paying for uninsured people to have work done on them.
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