So I said earlier that this weekend had been uneventful. Then the drama came in spades! I was MAKING TACOS AND TRYING TO TAKE OUT AN AVACADO CORE with a knife (sorry for all caps but its too much trouble to correct it right now). I remember thinking "this is kind of dangerous" when BAM i cut off most of my left pinkie finger.
I mean I knew it was BAD. There was no contemplation of to ER or not to ER. I was braless and did attempt to put one on but blood started to gush blood and decided to jut throw on a sweatshirt and drive myself to the ER before I passed out. I called Lisa and she was on her way from Dallas. Short time later Jennifer headed out to meet me too.
Long story short, I didn't quite slice all the way around my finger, but did manage to slice some tendons. Only about 10% though, so even though I have to see a hand surgeon this week, it will likely heal without surgery. It is in a hard splint holding my finger in a particular spot, thus my typing troubles.
Geez! This is so not what I needed or how I wanted to vacation in a week! Just for the record, I hurt my ankle on May 8th several yrs ago, so I may go live in a bubble this week in the future.
Here are some iphone photos of my nice splint and lastly a non-focused one of the sewn up injury in case you want to see, If not don't scroll down to the last pic.
Oh and what a happy mothers day i gave to my mom! she got to drive down in the rain to stay with me tonight!
Finally, I want to know why when I wear make-up 360 days a year, I have to go to the ER on 1 of thoser 5 days when i'm not?
Here is my favorite quote of the ER:
Doc: did you take any pain meds before you came
ME: i didn't even stop to put on a bra, what do you think.
I mean I knew it was BAD. There was no contemplation of to ER or not to ER. I was braless and did attempt to put one on but blood started to gush blood and decided to jut throw on a sweatshirt and drive myself to the ER before I passed out. I called Lisa and she was on her way from Dallas. Short time later Jennifer headed out to meet me too.
Long story short, I didn't quite slice all the way around my finger, but did manage to slice some tendons. Only about 10% though, so even though I have to see a hand surgeon this week, it will likely heal without surgery. It is in a hard splint holding my finger in a particular spot, thus my typing troubles.
Geez! This is so not what I needed or how I wanted to vacation in a week! Just for the record, I hurt my ankle on May 8th several yrs ago, so I may go live in a bubble this week in the future.
Here are some iphone photos of my nice splint and lastly a non-focused one of the sewn up injury in case you want to see, If not don't scroll down to the last pic.
Oh and what a happy mothers day i gave to my mom! she got to drive down in the rain to stay with me tonight!
Finally, I want to know why when I wear make-up 360 days a year, I have to go to the ER on 1 of thoser 5 days when i'm not?
Here is my favorite quote of the ER:
Doc: did you take any pain meds before you came
ME: i didn't even stop to put on a bra, what do you think.
Comments
if there is any silver lining, it's that today was a fairly cool day and wearing a sweatshirt probably didn't look so weird.
ugh...feel better soon and keep us updated on your hand.