As regular readers know I broke my arm riding my mountain bike on Thanksgiving day. I was riding with some of my buddies and I broke my own cardinal rule. I have the rule because a little over two years ago I had a bad crash during a race and broke my left hip. I was on crutches for four months.
The rule goes something like this: Don't follow your crazy "friends" down some insane rock garden that looks more like a shear rock face than a trail.
Today I get my MRI results and find out whether I need surgery on my wrist. Besides the distal radius fracture; which was pretty routine and suitable for closed reduction in the ER, I may have damaged some ligaments in my wrist. If so, my surgeon may have to go in and surgically repair the damaged ligament.
That would delay my recovery by about a month which would suck big time, as my daughter would say.
I'll let you know, but in the meantime, instead of moping around and between really boring sessions on the stationary bike, I'd like to do a series of shorter posts on pet health topics. It takes a really long time to type anything with one arm.
I'd like to do a series on the diseases that are covered by the typical vaccinations we give our pets on a routine basis. We hear a lot about the importance of routine vaccination, but rarely do we actually discuss the consequences of skipping vaccination.
I'll cover the various disease's like this: 
- What is it and how it is transmitted from critter to critter
- what causes it
- what are the signs and symptoms and
- what possible treatments exist once the disease is contracted.
Hope you find it informative and I'll throw in a few tidbits about my recovery process. I'm starting to think of it from a dog's perspective. How many times have I wondered why can't that dog/ cat/ horse leave that bandage/ splint/ cast alone? Well, now I know.
They hurt, they itch, they make other parts of the body hurt, they make it difficult to sleep and they make the most routine activities more difficult. Next time I see a dog in a cast I'm going to give them an extended pet and scratch behind the ears.
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