More on the hand
So being down to one hand sucks. Hard. I have to be extra-cautious about how I sleep; I can’t get the stitches wet, so showering is a tricky affair that doesn’t get everything clean like it normally does; I can’t really use my left index or middle fingers to type or manipulate objects; I can’t even drive, as I have a manual transmission and need my left hand to steer as my right hand shifts.
However, I can win both major sympathy points and major gross-out points — simultaneously. All I have to do is take off my bandage.
That’s my thumb at the top, and my fingers at the bottom; the bandage is peeled off to the right. Any glistening you see is from the antibiotic ointment I put on every time I change the dressing.
(Fred’s over here laughing about what caused the injury: a “militant cat food can lid”.)
I can stop wearing the bandage Tuesday, according to this lovely sheet of instructions I got from the ER. Can’t wait.
(on the other hand, I’m making leaps and bounds with my Diablo II character. don’t worry, it’s more mouse-intensive than anything else; if i need my left hand it’s to hit a function key real quick, and i can do that with my pinky.)
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Ewwww!
That sucks, Jim. A similar thing happened to me a few years back. I was washing the dishes and, being Latino, talking with my hands…which I discovered is not the best idea when one is holding a right left index finger down to the bone, and ended up bleeding all over the emergency room waiting to be seen. I still have the scar, but I think yours will be cooler than mine.
Take care of that hand!