hand/ finger update
Apr. 8th, 2002 11:55 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
magidthe pins are out!
this morning, the doctor checked how the fingers were doing, took the dressing off, took some x-rays with the fluoroscope, then pulled the pins. he used a forceps, and pheromone was right - no anesthesia, painkilling, whatever. a few moments of pain, but not bad. i didn't watch, though, figuring that would squick me more. this way i could just focus on the real pain.
anyway. not too much bleeding, and a bit later some more fluoroscope pix, a hand w/o dark straight lines of pins. i can see where the break is/was - apparently there's a month lull before the bone would show up as completely healed. but the finger moves (as much as it does) as a unit. now it's up to me to do the therapy, get range of motion back. the doctor asked me to bend as much as i could, and seemed relatively pleased with the results. i see him in 2 weeks (he's off to chicago for his wife's professional conference next week), and he wants lots of progress...
i still need to keep the dressing on my hand covered when i shower. next week hopefully the dressing will be able to come off, let me start applying prodigious quantities of cream to the lizard skin on the back of my hand, and shower without it being a production (and just last week i was excited by the thought of showering at all...)
another 5 days of antibiotics, just to be on the safe side, make sure nothing happens while the open wounds heal. another trip to the pharmacy. i'm lucky to have health insurance...
side note: i have the pins. they're wrapped in gauze, in a plastic glove. for some reason i was surprised at how long they are, around 3 inches or so, sharp at one end (big surprise), curved into a right angle at the other. anyone have ideas for what to use them for, other than just ditching them?
this morning, the doctor checked how the fingers were doing, took the dressing off, took some x-rays with the fluoroscope, then pulled the pins. he used a forceps, and pheromone was right - no anesthesia, painkilling, whatever. a few moments of pain, but not bad. i didn't watch, though, figuring that would squick me more. this way i could just focus on the real pain.
anyway. not too much bleeding, and a bit later some more fluoroscope pix, a hand w/o dark straight lines of pins. i can see where the break is/was - apparently there's a month lull before the bone would show up as completely healed. but the finger moves (as much as it does) as a unit. now it's up to me to do the therapy, get range of motion back. the doctor asked me to bend as much as i could, and seemed relatively pleased with the results. i see him in 2 weeks (he's off to chicago for his wife's professional conference next week), and he wants lots of progress...
i still need to keep the dressing on my hand covered when i shower. next week hopefully the dressing will be able to come off, let me start applying prodigious quantities of cream to the lizard skin on the back of my hand, and shower without it being a production (and just last week i was excited by the thought of showering at all...)
another 5 days of antibiotics, just to be on the safe side, make sure nothing happens while the open wounds heal. another trip to the pharmacy. i'm lucky to have health insurance...
side note: i have the pins. they're wrapped in gauze, in a plastic glove. for some reason i was surprised at how long they are, around 3 inches or so, sharp at one end (big surprise), curved into a right angle at the other. anyone have ideas for what to use them for, other than just ditching them?
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Date: 2002-04-08 09:16 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2002-04-08 09:26 am (UTC)since they were running from the back of my hand through the knuckle and almost to the 2nd joint, all they needed was 2 to immobilize the finger, get the 2 pieces of bone aligned correctly so they wouldn't slip. they were set at an (acute) angle, as well.
btw, the doctor (when questioned) said he expected a full recovery :-)
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Date: 2002-04-08 09:33 am (UTC)windchimes?
Date: 2002-04-08 09:47 am (UTC)Windchimes, another reason I covet an open porch.
Re: windchimes?
Date: 2002-04-08 09:48 am (UTC)Re: windchimes?
Date: 2002-04-08 10:11 am (UTC)game involving keys
Date: 2002-04-08 10:10 am (UTC)Re: game involving keys
Date: 2002-04-08 10:32 am (UTC)Re: game involving keys
Date: 2002-04-08 10:39 am (UTC)(hm. follow the bouncing idea!)
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Date: 2002-04-08 09:52 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2002-04-08 09:58 am (UTC)tree ornaments
Date: 2002-04-08 10:13 am (UTC)re: earrings
Date: 2002-04-08 10:05 am (UTC)actually, my first thought was for adding them somehow to a necklace (still in the planning stages) of metal chain, with twisted colored wires attaching things like wing nuts, washers, etc. i have the chain, and the wire. i still need to clean the chain, then plan out the rest of the attachments (or mostly emphasize the wire, forming it into shapes? haven't decided.)
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Date: 2002-04-08 10:02 am (UTC)The ones I had in my arm when I was seventeen looked like knitting needles (I think Mom finally threw them out). Do yours have loops on the end?
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Date: 2002-04-08 10:17 am (UTC)i've already have one picture hung on my wall fall off almost on to me whilr reading in bed. apparently the friend who put it up hadn't used the right hardware and hadn't found a stud, either (preemoting the obvious bad joke: her husband is pretty cute, thank you.). so i'm leery of hanging things in unusual ways... (luckily the glass mostly broke in the frame, didn't get all over the bed. :)