Scaphoid Fractures

[Karlos]

cecilia wrote:
zinc is your skins' best friend.

Any recommended foodstuffs? Or should I just get a suppliment?

[cecilia]

Karlos wrote:

cecilia wrote:
zinc is your skins' best friend.

Any recommended foodstuffs? Or should I just get a suppliment?

you can do both. however, as I don't know what drugs - if anything - your doc may be having you take, I'd check for side effects if you want to try a suppliment.

zinc in food is found in meat, liver, eggs and seafood (especially oysters). personally, i like the eggs and seafood, but that's me.

Taking more than 100 milligrams of zinc per day can be dangerous.

however, as your issue is with a particular area on your arm, maybe the best thig is a Zinc oxide cream rubbed right on the affected area. It's one of the things I do if I have a "wound" that needs healing. the creams are often used for diaper rash. and, no, i'm not implying anything.  :lol:

[Karlos]

Eggs and seafood. Check :-)

I eat a lot of the latter anyway...

[Speelgoedmannetje]

Karlos wrote:
Eggs and seafood. Check :-)

I eat a lot of the latter anyway...

Yeah, me too, I love raw herring  :-)

[Karlos]

Raw?

[cecilia]

Karlos wrote:
Raw?

mmm, sushi!

[Speelgoedmannetje]

Karlos wrote:
Raw?

Yes, kind of
It has a lovely soft taste,
and combined with onion
Yum!

[Speelgoedmannetje]

cecilia wrote:

Karlos wrote:
Raw?

mmm, sushi!

Still got to try that :-)

[Karlos]

I tend to grill mine, but each to their own :-D

[Agafaster]

I still have to wear a detachable splint thing to support the wrist as I literally have no mobility in it just now.

a mate back home crashed out in the bath after downing 4 cans of 'Spesh' (this was many years ago) after work. he awoke to find he'd lost the use of his hand - had to have a big mechanism attached to his wrist with springs attached to the fingers to help him get the use back. note as drastic as that ?

 It'll take a few weeks of gentle exercise to get it moving again :-/

isnt it a bit early for the sock therapy ?! ;-)

[Karlos]

No, not as bad as that :-D

The splint is just a sort of detachable cast in some ways. It is only there to support the wrist when it gets too tired or Im doing something that might stress it too much. The rest of the time, I leave the splint off and slowly get used to moving it around again. I can barely move it at all but it is getting better in small increments. 11 weeks is a long time to have your joint held absolutely motionless ;-)

[Speelgoedmannetje]

Karlos wrote:
 but each to their own :-D

But how do you know what's your own if you won't try :-D

[Karlos]

I had a bad experience with virtually raw fish once :afraid:

[Speelgoedmannetje]

That was ofcourse not completely raw fish ;-P

(well, 'raw' herring is sterilized by being frozen first. So you won't get sick of it)

[cecilia]

Speelgoedmannetje wrote:
That was ofcourse not completely raw fish ;-P

(well, 'raw' herring is sterilized by being frozen first. So you won't get sick of it)

I think you are trying to say "So you won't get sick FROM it"

meaning you won't become ill FROM a fish stewing in bacteria.

correct?

if you get sick of something it means you are tired of it.

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in any case when one eats sushi one has to be very picky about the resturant. find one where asians eat at and you are more likely to have a place where they care about quality and treating the fish properly.
This is easy if you live in New York or Los Angeles where there is a resonably large asian/Japanese population.

[Speelgoedmannetje]

Oops, yes I know it, Cecilia, forgive me, it's nearly half past 2 here and I should be in bed long ago :oops: