DRIVE NJ IS ON THE MARK… you will have to unlearn any compensation you learn in lessons while the cast is on…having had a fractured arm last fall I know that a towel topped with a trash bag worked best and still sucks because anything that keeps dust and water out will make you sweat like a beeeeacch even in the middle of winter…Get a new cast ASAP…not swinging an injured arm normally and holding it “close to your heart” totally throws off your balance in the rest of your body. Any compensation you learn to balance while riding in the cast will have to be unlearned. Do as I say not as I did…getting something fixed the second time is infinitely worse than the first time around.
Aaargh!!
I heeded 2ndyrgal’s advice and called my Dr. this morning. I was told that yes, I needed a new cast since fungus would grow in the damp environment I had created. However, since I was already on my way to the barn and had a lesson scheduled, I went ahead and rode, this time using a sock with the toe end cut off. I was hoping that this would prevent my arm from sweating, but alas, it did not.
When I was at the Dr. getting the new cast put on, I asked about any alternatives. For me, there aren’t any so I am resigned to no riding until the cast comes off.
Thanks to everyone for your suggestions, and especially to those who told me (in no uncertain terms!) that I needed to get a new cast. In my over half a century of life I have never had a cast, so it’s new territory for me.
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