update on the hand
So I mainly use facebook now, but they shun on long posts, so here's what's going on...
I broke my knuckle/horribly dislocated it last Friday morning at work trying to unjam a large printer. Went to the ER, they did the xrays, and showed me where my knuckle was actually laying in my hand...you know...not where it was suppose to be. They splinted it up, and told me to see the hand specialist. Because it's workers comp that took a couple of days longer than it should have, I finally got to see them yesterday afternoon.
The first doctor re-took the xrays with the instant xray machine because he was also trying to pop the knuckle back into place. Oh that hurt like a bitch, but I have a such a high tolerance for pain I didn't really show it. He was shocked by my calm attitude. He tried everything, but couldn't fix my hand, so he said it would require surgery which is what he was trying to avoid.
While waiting for the surgeon I was reading articles on my phone...when the surgeon came in I used my broken hand to put the phone back in my pocket. The surgeon grabbed my left hand, the not broken one to exam it. I then told her, "wrong hand doctor." She actually stepped back shocked that I was using my hand so easily, like shoving my phone back into my pocket with it. She became fascinated by that feat, so she started messing around with my hand asking me all sorts of questions. The first doctor was chiming in with, "It's weird I told you." The surgeon said to me while messing with my hand, "I'm absolutely shocked as to how mobile your hand is with the type of injury you have." I told her, "I have a high tolerance for pain. After a couple of days my brain starts to turn the pain receptors off to that area, so I don't really feel it anymore." She then responded with, "Pain or no pain you shouldn't be able to use your hand like I just saw you do with what I'm looking at."
She then stopped messing my freak hand to let me know the bad news. The news that they can't fix it on the outside, but that she has to cut my hand open, and find out what's really wrong, and move everything back to where it should be. Depending on the severity of the problem I'll either have to get pins put in, or screws to hold it all in place. I'll have to wear a cast for a month during that...just a small hand sized one, so I can move my wrist, but just to keep my knuckles from moving around.
That's pretty much it on that front.
I broke my knuckle/horribly dislocated it last Friday morning at work trying to unjam a large printer. Went to the ER, they did the xrays, and showed me where my knuckle was actually laying in my hand...you know...not where it was suppose to be. They splinted it up, and told me to see the hand specialist. Because it's workers comp that took a couple of days longer than it should have, I finally got to see them yesterday afternoon.
The first doctor re-took the xrays with the instant xray machine because he was also trying to pop the knuckle back into place. Oh that hurt like a bitch, but I have a such a high tolerance for pain I didn't really show it. He was shocked by my calm attitude. He tried everything, but couldn't fix my hand, so he said it would require surgery which is what he was trying to avoid.
While waiting for the surgeon I was reading articles on my phone...when the surgeon came in I used my broken hand to put the phone back in my pocket. The surgeon grabbed my left hand, the not broken one to exam it. I then told her, "wrong hand doctor." She actually stepped back shocked that I was using my hand so easily, like shoving my phone back into my pocket with it. She became fascinated by that feat, so she started messing around with my hand asking me all sorts of questions. The first doctor was chiming in with, "It's weird I told you." The surgeon said to me while messing with my hand, "I'm absolutely shocked as to how mobile your hand is with the type of injury you have." I told her, "I have a high tolerance for pain. After a couple of days my brain starts to turn the pain receptors off to that area, so I don't really feel it anymore." She then responded with, "Pain or no pain you shouldn't be able to use your hand like I just saw you do with what I'm looking at."
She then stopped messing my freak hand to let me know the bad news. The news that they can't fix it on the outside, but that she has to cut my hand open, and find out what's really wrong, and move everything back to where it should be. Depending on the severity of the problem I'll either have to get pins put in, or screws to hold it all in place. I'll have to wear a cast for a month during that...just a small hand sized one, so I can move my wrist, but just to keep my knuckles from moving around.
That's pretty much it on that front.