Hand Injury Update
The floppy dried-up skin peeled off on Thursday, leaving a shiny pink scar that looks fairly horrific (although not as scary as when the finger had 12 Frankensteinesque stitches in it). The finger is still quite swollen and it’s still difficult to make a fist, although I’m trying to follow the hand surgeon’s advice by forcing my hand shut eight or ten times each day to make it more flexible. This isn’t easy; I sometimes have to use my left hand to make my right hand close all the way.
The skin at the base of the finger is really tight. When I stretch it or twist it, it feels tight and there’s some sharp pain, like the wound wants to open up again. This makes it hard to reach inside my pocket or pick certain things up with the hand (although I’m nearly back to 100% of my normal typing speed, and I did do some simple graphics work in Fireworks today, doing a new Konfabulator widget which I’m hoping to get done over the weekend).
Sorry for the ick factor, but over-sharing is one of the ways that I deal. (I ran all this down for Dave today and for a second I thought I was going to see him keel over with disgust.) After having a screwed-up hand for three weeks now, I’m looking forward to this being done with. Maybe there’ll be some improvement by the time I see the doctor again a week from Monday.
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