Kelly’s I’m Back Story: Broken Wrist

For Kelly, being a mom is everything. So, when she broke her wrist, she went to the OSMS Walk-In Clinic for quick and direct access to an orthopedic specialist, giving her the care she needed to confidently return to the role she loves most.

While Kelly was playing in the driveway with her children, she decided to put on her rollerblades while her boys rode around on their scooters and her two-year-old napped. At the end of her driveway, Kelly ended up hitting a bump and fell. The moment she hit the ground, she heard a crack and immediately knew in the back of her mind that something wasn’t right.

Kelly called her parents and when they arrive, her dad told her to get in the truck. While they were driving, Kelly asked her father where he was taking her – she assumed they were going to the ER – when her dad responded, “No, we’re going to go to the walk-in clinic at OSMS. You can probably get in much quicker than visiting in the ER waiting room for however many hours.”

Kelly go x-rays taken and she was seen by an OSMS orthopedic physician, they confirmed what Kelly feared. Kelly had fractured her wrist and the best path to recovery was going to be surgery.

Kelly wanted the path of whatever was going to happen the fastest. It wasn’t an ideal situation, but after being walked through the timeline of events, Kelly understood that the recovery option for surgery was much quicker than possibly casting it and seeing how long that was going to be. Kelly was comfortable with the plan, which was set the same day she walked in – on a Wednesday – and had surgery that following evening.

“I feel like I couldn’t really do hardly anything ’cause it was of course on my right hand and I’m right-handed,” Kelly explained. “I couldn’t cook, I couldn’t fold laundry like normally. Everything just took so much longer. Just normal things or just playing with my kids, strapping them into their car seat, just doing the day-to-day things.”

Kelly explained that her OSMS physician communicated with her that it would take approximately six weeks for the bone to heal, but not necessarily for her wrist to be fully recovered with full mobility. It would likely take the full year to heal.

So, when Kelly felt like there was nothing that she couldn’t do anymore than she could do before her injury, five weeks after surgery, she was pleasantly surprised. Her wrist healed much quicker than even anticipated.

Kelly described that she is back to “doing all the mom things laundry, cooking, cleaning, taking care of her kids, getting her two-year-old out of her crib, lifting her kids, and playing soccer and football.

“I 100% would recommend OSMS to anyone,” Kelly stated. “I would 100% take them to OSMS, especially just the fact that they have the walk-in clinic that you can be seen quickly. I feel like they care about you as a person, they care about your goals and just getting you back to what you want to be doing.”

Thanks to OSMS, Kelly’s back!

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