The fracture that would not die!!!!!!!!!! (Or heal, rather.) Or, Poor, Poor, Pitiful Me
I have been having quite terrible pain in my fractured finger to the point that driving and pushing a shopping cart were near-excruciating. As April 5 approaches, the day I'm cleared to work with patients, I am growing increasingly concerned that something isn't right with my finger. So, Brent urged me to go to Urgent Care (no pun intended.)
What I found out was my finger isn't healing! The woman who took the films said to me, knowing I'm a nurse and showing me the films, "I can see why you're having pain. There's no new bone growth and that's one nasty break!" I was broken-hearted. I looked at them and she was right. While it looked better than the first ER films, she was right, there is a large area of no growth and an area that is totally shifted out of alignment. I told her it was pretty funny because the orthopod told me at my six week check up, the one when he said another appt. wouldn't be necessary, that my finger was "healing up fantastic! Just great!"
I took the films back up to Urgent Care and he came in and said, "I can see why you got another six weeks added on to your medical leave: that break isn't healing and what a nasty break!" I also relayed to him what the other doc had said. He invited me into the hall where we gawked at my poor little finger lit up for all to see. Poor, poor pinky.
I guess my worries about being able to play piano weren't unfounded as they wheeled the casting cart into the ER room.
I'm going back to the orthopod ASAP with the new films in hand. He already thinks that my "pain seems too extreme for the injury," so he'll love to see me back complaining of pain and wanting to know what's up with my healing process, but.....
What I found out was my finger isn't healing! The woman who took the films said to me, knowing I'm a nurse and showing me the films, "I can see why you're having pain. There's no new bone growth and that's one nasty break!" I was broken-hearted. I looked at them and she was right. While it looked better than the first ER films, she was right, there is a large area of no growth and an area that is totally shifted out of alignment. I told her it was pretty funny because the orthopod told me at my six week check up, the one when he said another appt. wouldn't be necessary, that my finger was "healing up fantastic! Just great!"
I took the films back up to Urgent Care and he came in and said, "I can see why you got another six weeks added on to your medical leave: that break isn't healing and what a nasty break!" I also relayed to him what the other doc had said. He invited me into the hall where we gawked at my poor little finger lit up for all to see. Poor, poor pinky.
I guess my worries about being able to play piano weren't unfounded as they wheeled the casting cart into the ER room.
I'm going back to the orthopod ASAP with the new films in hand. He already thinks that my "pain seems too extreme for the injury," so he'll love to see me back complaining of pain and wanting to know what's up with my healing process, but.....