Hopefully you won't lose too much mass to atrophy.
What really sucks is the cast and trying to figure out how to scratch and itch.
I'm pretty thin to begin with, but the most disturbing thing so far was not the "obvious deformity" that the doctors had to correct when setting the bones, but how skinny my arm looked when they took the plaster cast off before putting the fibreglass cast on - I was shocked at how much my arm atrophied in just 3 weeks.
Truth be told, the itching doesn't bother me all that much. Somehow, I'm pretty good at ignoring it until it goes away.
With all the advances in prosthetics I'd chop off that arm and get a cyborg arm that will perform supernatural feats-you'll be the envy of every drummer.
I tore my ACL twenty years ago - not a small sprain or twist - but a full blow out of my knee trying to downhill ski for the first time. Never had surgery to fix it. It's gotten worse over the years, to the point where it's begun to affect the other ligaments in my knee. A couple of years ago it just "collapsed" while walking normally. Had to go to the hospital and eventually had an MRI done. Never heard back from the doctors - I'm pretty sure they took a look at the MRI and said "nope, nothing we can do short of a full knee replacement".
How long do you think until the technology is so good that a knee replacement will allow for full use of the knee (I'm talking being able to play hockey again, practice martial arts, etc.) without having to use a brace? 5 years? 10? 20? I mean, some of those prosthetics are pretty amazing, so the technology can't be too far off, no?
The two things I'd offer are to get as much sleep as you can, and to be very disciplined in doing the exercises that the physiotherapist prescribes.
Good luck, I hope you heal up quickly! I broke a bone in my neck once...so boring.
Yup, been sleeping a lot (and eating more than usual). I'm actually looking forward to physiotherapy.
But, that has to be the most cavalier attitude to an injury I've ever heard...puts Monty Python to shame:
https://tenor.com/view/monty-python-gif-5626961.