Elbow problems.

03:30 28th december, my elbow is in a strange position and I cannot feel or move my hand.  After moving my elbow and waiting a few seconds I regain movement, but my fingers are still tingling later in the morning.  My doctor is on holiday, so I go to the ponsonby A&E.  The doctor doesn't think that any bone or pins have come loose or anything drastic like that has happened.  I have probably just overdone things and stretched/stressed a nerve.  He prescribes some anti-inflamamatory painkillers.  I'll have to go and see more doctors in the New Year and this may mean that the further surgery previous specialists have suggested is now inevitable.

The anti-inflammatories help and I feel a lot better, but not quite up to making the last few cuts in the legs that I was supposed to do before moving operations to my brother's house.  Instead I try and assemble the Elephant loosely to get an idea of the scale of the animal.  At least I can do this one handed.

Loosely assembled Elephant

I then carefully pack the Elephant in the car and transport it to my brother's house.

Being able to pack the instrument into our car is an important design criteria for this project, so it is good to see that it works.

The backbone and hips need to be glued together and I can help with that one handed, so we glue the hips and backbone together and call it a day.