Today marks 6 months since I broke my elbow.  Has it really been that long?  The good news is that it's way better than the doctor expected.  It's the only real bone I've broken though (I broke a toe once and had a stress fracture in my foot), so I really had no idea what to expect.  The last time I was at the doctor, 2 months after surgery, he told me my arm would never straighten and that I'd be "permanently disabled" if it had happened at work.  That wasn't the greatest doctor's appointment I've ever had and I came home pretty despressed.  Because, at that time, I still wasn't able to use it much and had trouble doing basic things, like putting my hair in a ponytail.  But guess what?  It'is way better than he told me it was going to be.  My husband thinks that the doc purposely set my sights low so I wouldn't be disappointed.  That, and most elbow breakes are from old poeple, so their recovery wouldn't be neary as good.  Anyhow, But the other day we were eating dinner and my husband noticed that I can bend my arm.  All the way.  As in bend my elbow and touch my shoulder.  How cool is that?  I have no idea when it happened, but sometime over the last 6 months I got almost full range of motion back.  Nice.  It is still a little weak- like when packing boxes and carrying them out to the garage and my elbow ached for days, or after about 45 minutes of biking when it starts to hurt from putting pressure on it.  And I can't straighten it all the way, but all in all I'm pretty happy with where it is now.