Clap Your Hands, Say No!
Well, the looks I was urged not to misconstrue a few weeks ago seem now like they were perfectly construed at the time. As Kate glared quizzically at my fingers flopping around in hers, she said the fateful words, "I don't think the tendons have taken."
About half an hour beforehand the doctor had ensured me that they had but, by all accounts, this is not a perfect science and it is a hard call to make. As time moves on, and my fingers don't, it seems less and less likely that the abundant scar tissue is locking the tendons down and more and more like they aren't actually attached.
So where to from here? Kate is checking back with the doctor, then probably an ultra-sound, if there are no tendons in place then they need to insert a sheath into my finger to hold a new one and then graft it in three months later. Hoorah for surgery!
It seems nobody will be happy till my hand looks like the map of the Paris Metro.
It is disheartening doing exercises for a hand that isn't going to work properly. Not that I'm giving up, but my hand does feel a little more like a piece of meat hanging from my wrist.
Tags: recovery, hand injury, hand therapy
posted by walypala @ 3:38 pm
5 Comments:
Well, some of them move, so that's a start! *hug*
Hey chicken,
Sorry to hear your hand's not healing as quickly as it should, but enjoy it while you can - at least you're getting out of doing the dishes and sweeping the floor and cleaning the gutters! It'll be fixed before you know it, and then it's back to manual labour you go!!
x Ange
Well, not to get all camp-counsellor on your ass, but keep in mind:
1. The doctor did say the rate of rehabilitation depended upon the extent of the injury (so those two fingers were always going to take much longer than the third) plus he said it was still 'early days';
and
2. Assumptions about cautionary steps (by Kate or anyone else), can be (mis)construed just as much as 'looks'! There is no point concluding the worst until the appropriate tests and examinations are done.
Try and keep up with your exercises until you know for sure, okaaay?!
Don't make me come back there and kill yo' cat.
Miss ya,
D x
yes - everything Donald said (but more slurred-like).
What? You're going to kill my caaaa'?
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