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Big news:  I have a broken wrist.  A broken scaphoid, to be precise.

It broke when the bicycle I was riding on tipped over.  Because the accident was 100% my own fault, I won’t get into the details here (I have a reputation to uphold).  I got acquainted with the Austrian medical system, and was impressed enough to schedule surgery to put a little screw in my scaphoid , so that I don’t have to wear this dreadful cast for 3 months.  I know that it could have been worse, but really.  Most of my shirts don’t fit anymore, the only winter jacket I have I must wear crooked because my arm barely fits through the sleeve, I have decreased showering to every second day (!), it feels like I’m going to sleep with a boot on my hand, and for some reason I sweat a lot more now.  All of these factors combined into me opting for te surgery.

Andreas has been a huge support, and honestly, this would have been way, way harder without him.  I mean, the hospital and the insurance company in GERMAN?!?  Impossible.

It’s been a hard change, for sure.  I mean, I’ve never been to the hospital before.  I’ve never even had a cavity before.  I’m pretty terrified about the surgery, but I’ve become more and more  confident that I’ve made the right decision.  I have to sleep in the hospital for 2 nights, which I don’t want to do, plain and simple.  I think part of me is still in denial that this happened, because my tendancy is to just want it all over with as soon as possible.  Somehow I just don’t know where to put this whole thing… last week I taght one of my students the word ‘precedent’, and I guess this is what this is.

PS:  In my German class we took a big re-placement exam and I got the best in my class so they’re moving me up a level- again!

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