Splints and PuPu

I am slowly beginning to be a little more productive—but not much.  Wednesday my cast was replaced with a removable splint. The splint is made from a 1/8 inch thick sheet of a plastic material that is flexible at room temperature, moldable after soaking in hot water, and sticks to itself and turns hard after it cools.  The engineer in me was fascinated.  The splint is molded to my forearm and sticky Velcro is applied to hold mounting straps.

You can’t see it in the picture but it is open on the top of the arm.

I wear this for 2 weeks and then go back to learn what physical therapy techniques I will use to strengthen the thumb.

I’m experiencing more pain now.  The cast really did a good job protecting my thumb.  Now with the splint being hard and pressing on the incision plus the additional range of motion I have I’m having more pain.  It’s not bad and it is slowly abating.

We tried to make driving to Gulf Breeze more interesting by finding someplace different to have lunch at.  I went on the internet and found that there was a Hawaiian restaurant there and everybody that rated it just raved about the food.  Our plan was to have lunch there on the way over but we weren’t sure where it was.  We lunched at Ruby Tuesday’s when we didn’t find the other restaurant.  We gave up about a mile too soon because we found the place  up the road when we headed to the clinic.

All was not lost because we stopped there on the way home at about  3:30.  The Papa-Nalu-Aloha Grill is a tiny place.

We had it all to ourselves and had a nice time discussing the menu with our server.  We got a pupu platter appetizer that we split.  Everything was delicious.  Their menu is on their Facebook page if you want to see it.

We definitely will be returning there on future trips to Gulf Breeze and P-cola. (it’s going to be hard not to stop there now that we sampled the food and met the friendly people there)

I was pleased to find something so different from anything else in the area and to discover that besides being different it was downright scrumptious!