Any precautions with broken wrist/cast on bc side?

Sounds like me a year ago this month.  Well not exactly - I came out of the bathroom and was walking down the hall when I slipped on one of the bones the dogs have all over the house and landed on my butt and hands.  Nothing seemed bad so I got us but right wrist then started really hurting.  Pulled sleeve and glove off immediately.

When Hubby got home, he took me to UC and sure enough both bone broken and slightly mis aligned so they splinted it and sent me home with an appt on Mon with the orthopedist.  Saw him and he thought that should be OK but wanted the orthopedic surgeon to see it the next Mon so new splint.  In that week, they did not stay even close together so surgery was the only option.

My LE did not bother me at all during that time.  My LE guy was  in surgery to wrap my arm above the forearm cast they put on so my elbow and above had the support it needed (elbow's my worst LE area).  He was therre  when I woke up with plenty of wraps and directions of how to do to short wrap and if I had to wrap fingers (didn't).  Healed fine and I have no limitations.

Pain was HUGE for 2 -3 mths post surgery.  I'm a 'tough old board' who has had many sports related injuries throughout my life but the pain with wrist was BAD!  I took a lot of pain meds during that time but healing is helped with keeping pain under control - so I did. 

Wrist is fine now but with the bitter cold we get here all winter - it aches a little bit occasionaly but quite tolerable .  It isn't quite as limber as it once was but good.  I took up fly fishing after IBC DX and you need to keep wrist 'stiffer' when casting than with spinning or bait casting.  So as much as I would rather not have 'messed up " wrist - my fly casting is better.

An appt. with a Certified LymphEdema Therapist is a good idea!  Not some pt that claims they "know all about LE" -can possibably do more harm.   Even without an injury, see a CLET is to establish a baseline in case you do need to ever deal with the monster - LE.  You will be given info to make you better informed and pro-active.

Thoughts/Prayers that your wrist is 'being good' and staying in place. 

Others can give you better answers on that than I can.  My care is through VA so I have a VA CLET.

It is best to get a 'baseline' to work from before you have issues if you do wind up with some.  And info. 

As others will say unfortunately MANY Drs have no clue - I was fortunate.

Aruba, it's a long shot, but try calling any lymphedema clinics that are in driving distance and ask if they do free screenings.  Or call your regional Komen chapter and ask if they've funded any lymphedema clinics that offer education sessions and free screenings.  These are few and far between, but they do exist.  There's a clinic an hour from me that does this, and they measure using a perometer, which is highly accurate and provides the patient with a nice printout to hang onto for future reference.  

In my perfect world, a BC diagnosis comes automatically with professionally done baseline arm measures, but our world is far from perfect.  There's a lot being published in lymphedema literature calling for universal baselines, so someday maybe, but these things seem to move at a snail's pace.