One broken finger
Nov. 24th, 2010 05:09 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
stef_tmFolks on FB saw the lovely photos - I'll spare folks the images here but for some time the ring finger on my non-dominant hand was zombie colored!! Mmmm, brains.
A week ago Tuesday I broke the bone in the fingertip of my left ring finger by smashing it in the lat pull down machine at a hotel gym. For the first time I had an actual use for the ice bucket -- I watched CNBC while suspending my finger in slush. The next day I gave a presentation with my hand casually in my pocket - improper business etiquette but a purple finger three times its normal width can be distracting.
I returned to the office Thursday am where my boss' boss promptly sent me to Kaiser for an x-ray - imagine my surprise when they showed me the jpegs. I'm impressed with Kaiser; I was admitted, x-rayed, splinted, and released in under 45 minutes via the ER. They wanted to give me Vicodin(TM) but I politely declined.
Yesterday I met with the orthopedist who said the finger would heal fine and gave me a more appropriate clip shape splint that fits over the finger tip (the original splint is called a "frog" splint but I had named it "Keith Haring figurine" splint in my head.)
Tomorrow is Thanksgiving Day in the US and I will be spending it with my gf and some of her family. I will also be grading, writing presentations for work, and catching up with Nanowrimo.
How are you?
A week ago Tuesday I broke the bone in the fingertip of my left ring finger by smashing it in the lat pull down machine at a hotel gym. For the first time I had an actual use for the ice bucket -- I watched CNBC while suspending my finger in slush. The next day I gave a presentation with my hand casually in my pocket - improper business etiquette but a purple finger three times its normal width can be distracting.
I returned to the office Thursday am where my boss' boss promptly sent me to Kaiser for an x-ray - imagine my surprise when they showed me the jpegs. I'm impressed with Kaiser; I was admitted, x-rayed, splinted, and released in under 45 minutes via the ER. They wanted to give me Vicodin(TM) but I politely declined.
Yesterday I met with the orthopedist who said the finger would heal fine and gave me a more appropriate clip shape splint that fits over the finger tip (the original splint is called a "frog" splint but I had named it "Keith Haring figurine" splint in my head.)
Tomorrow is Thanksgiving Day in the US and I will be spending it with my gf and some of her family. I will also be grading, writing presentations for work, and catching up with Nanowrimo.
How are you?
