Yeesh. Most of these injuries don’t result in severe damage but the potential needs to be assessed. Not the best way to start the day; hope things went well. (Which I will find out after reading more than the first post).
Usually soft tissue damage can be limited if you operate within a few days. Nerves are trickier and harder to predict. I wish you the very best and that you regain full function, and quickly. Most of the cases i have seen did well but it can be tricky stuff.
A follow up to some questions I missed…
Yes, the injury is to my dominant hand.
No, I did not dictate any of the posts. I will say that posting, one-handed, from a phone is a PITA. The last couple are from home and much easier to do on the PC.
My follow up appointment was moved up 5 days so I can see the surgeon, I had been set to see another doctor. After reading the posts I see I was very lucky to have a hand specialist operate on me within 12 hours of the injury.
Now I just need to get comfortable sleeping with my arm elevated.
I hope you’re doing well enough.
Typing will get easier.
Help with pets is always tricky with injury. No one cares for them like you do.
They can get adequate care and maybe a little fun if housed with other friendly dogs. I hope they think of it as summer camp. Either way, they’ll survive it.
Take care and get well.
(Order your sister some flowers. Red roses or a basket of blood oranges!)
I just had the stitches removed. The doctor says everything looks good, which is reassuring. She also said she has never seen such damage from glass.
I am now waiting to see a therapist…I am sure I will have a long road to full recovery, at least the start is going well.
Yay.
Take your therapy. Sez, me!
I’ve never managed to succeed in physical therapy. But I have high hopes for you.
Good luck.
I did not do enough physio after my shoulder injury several years ago. However I was quite serious about physio for my hip and I will be for this as well. I’m thinking about long term QoL.
So, here is the scar from my injury. It is healing as well as it can and I notice improvement every week. Unfortunately, it will still likely be another couple of months before I can grip things again.
To add to the speculation, they may have immobilized things because of the possibility of glass fragments being left in the wound and causing new damage if things moved. Glass fragments are difficult to spot in wounds.
This was the case when an acquaintance broke some glass, cut their hand deeply, and suffered further damage after the original injury.
"I sewed your hand…while you had the gas. I’ve never seen…such damage from glass.
Good to hear you’re on the mend.
Is the picture showing up?
Not for me, unless I “register for the site”.
Nope. I think you linked to their upload page, not the display page. So it thinks we’re trying to upload something, not see something.
Looks nasty !
Yeah. The link works & the wound looks large.
Actually, I was expecting worse! Looks like it’s healing well to me. Good luck with the therapy.