# I'm typing this post with one hand **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [March 19, 2002, 3:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-typing-this-post-with-one-hand/98984 "2002-03-19T03:30:13Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![astro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/9dc877/32.png) [@astro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astro)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2002, 3:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-typing-this-post-with-one-hand/98984/1 "2002-03-19T03:30:13Z")
This evening I was standing on a chair to reach a high shelf and had a Darwin moment stepping off, and fell backwards and landed on my left hand and my tailbone. After the shock of the impact wore off I looked down at my hand in astonishment. The fingers on my left hand were splayed out at jaunty non-human angles and the bones were crooked inside my flesh!! I pondered for a moment and realized that all my left hand fingers except my little finger and my thumb had been torn out of their sockets and were dislocated. I grabbed the crooked digits yanked hard on the skewed fingers until they straightened out. Fingers will move (a little) and doesn’t appear anything is broken, thank God. Even after soaking I now have a left hand that is swollen to over twice the size of the right hand. What a day, time for some more Advil. ---
**Author:** ![Violet](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/ebca7d/32.png) [@Violet](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Violet)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2002, 3:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-typing-this-post-with-one-hand/98984/2 "2002-03-19T03:35:03Z")
:eek: Would have never thought to do the yanking! Hope you feel better & are OK. ---
**Author:** ![astro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/9dc877/32.png) [@astro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astro)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2002, 4:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-typing-this-post-with-one-hand/98984/3 "2002-03-19T04:04:28Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Violet \* > \*\*:eek: Would have never thought to do the yanking! Hope you feel better & are OK. \*\* Thanks. Here is a pic of my ballooned up, [swollen paw](http://www.ezy.net/~cpeek/IMG_0004.jpg) ---
**Author:** ![d12](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/71c47a/32.png) [@d12](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/d12)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2002, 4:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-typing-this-post-with-one-hand/98984/4 "2002-03-19T04:10:26Z")
AHHHHHHHH! OMG!!! I’m scared! Make it better! Or try to make some money off rotten… Get well!☹ I want that to happen to me ---
**Author:** ![Violet](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/ebca7d/32.png) [@Violet](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Violet)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2002, 7:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-typing-this-post-with-one-hand/98984/5 "2002-03-19T07:00:00Z")
Jee-zuss! :eek: Now I know I won’t sleep well tonight. Maybe you should check it with a doc. ---
**Author:** ![Happy\_Lendervedder](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/happy_lendervedder/32/8488_2.png) [@Happy\_Lendervedder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Happy_Lendervedder)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2002, 8:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-typing-this-post-with-one-hand/98984/6 "2002-03-19T08:28:57Z")
With a thread title like that I thought there’d be a lot of dirty talk of swollen, throbbing male appendages and such. Well, we do have **astro’s** swollen, throbbing appendages to ogle, anyway. YOWZA! stv ---
**Author:** ![Cougarfang](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/c67d28/32.png) [@Cougarfang](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cougarfang)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2002, 8:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-typing-this-post-with-one-hand/98984/7 "2002-03-19T08:41:47Z")
_Takes a look at picture_ _Winces_ Ouch, looks _really_ painful… {{Astro}} Anyways, let this be a lesson to you, my kitten: Always land on your feet, not your tail. 😉😃 ---
**Author:** ![beckwall](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/b487fb/32.png) [@beckwall](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/beckwall)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2002, 5:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-typing-this-post-with-one-hand/98984/8 "2002-03-19T17:12:46Z")
“_Would have never thought to do the yanking_”. Worth repeating. Struck me as hilarious. I didn’t look at the pic of the hand, maybe it CAN’T do the yanking. There’s always wanking, that’s yanking with less torque.