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  • Amongst the Ani
    Amongst the Ani @Wobbie Posts: 7,790
    Ouch. What did you do to get that wonderful surgery?
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  • northerndragon
    northerndragon Posts: 9,851
    imalive said:

    nice toenail polish. does that scare bears away?

    We don't scare the bears away here, we offer them a beer.
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  • RKCNDY
    RKCNDY Posts: 31,013
    Amongst the Ani said:

    Ouch. What did you do to get that wonderful surgery?

    I had a questionably cancerous tumor growing on the major tendon in my thumb.
    Good news: not cancer, and I did not lose full use of my thumb
    Bad News: I lost some of the feeling and use in my thumb

    I'm generally right handed, but can use my left when needed.
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  • deadendp
    deadendp Northeast Ohio Posts: 10,434
    ^^ That is great news! If this is a recent injury, you might pull around and be okay. I cut halfway through the tendon in my left thumb, had to have it stitched back together and had hitchhiker thumb for 2 months. It was numb for probably a year and a half. It's good now, but if I bang it on something in just the right spot (did that about a week ago) the intense pain can bring me to my knees. You might be able to do some home therapy for the usefulness portion.

    But hey, hooray-- no cancer!
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  • RKCNDY
    RKCNDY Posts: 31,013
    ^^^ I did do PT after surgery, still don't have all my grip strength back but I can manage. And I have that stabbing pain if something hits it 'just right'.

    What did you do to your thumb? (if you don't mind sharing)

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  • deadendp
    deadendp Northeast Ohio Posts: 10,434
    I don't mind. I was out on a buying trip for work. I had been gone for a week, I was exhausted, but I got back early enough to go to my stained glass class. Cutting glass while tired is not a good thing. I snapped the glass up and into my thumb as opposed to away from myself. I think I ended up with 14 stitches total. (Some inside, some outside.) It instantly went numb. It isn't as strong as it was. There is definite atrophy when you compare the two hands. (I'm right handed and the injury was to my left.)

    A handful of years prior to that, I burned the hell out of the same hand/thumb in glassblowing. I was assisting a classmate, she flashed the pipe in further than you typically do, didn't tell me and I grabbed hold at the typical hand holds. I heard my skin sizzle. (The glory hole she flashed it in was running at 2200 F.) I let go of the pipe and watched in slow motion as it was dropping to the floor. She screamed. I grabbed back hold before it hit the floor and helped her to finish the piece. The prof watched the whole thing. After we were done, she looked at my hand and insisted that she take me for medical care, but I declined. I thought I was fine. I did go later in class. I ended up in a burn mitt for a week, having to go back daily to have the dressing changed. It hurt like hell. I don't think that injury helped my glass cutting injury.

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  • northerndragon
    northerndragon Posts: 9,851
    rr165892 said:

    Northdragon,Next time could we please get something a little more graphic like a compound fracture.Or just use better aim and try for the joints on the little toes they turn purple and take an impressive picture.
    Nice effort though.keep it up the good work.

    This is usually a little more my speed.
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  • deadendp
    deadendp Northeast Ohio Posts: 10,434
    ^^ Now that is a break. What'dya do there?
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  • rr165892
    rr165892 Posts: 5,697
    Northern,that is Sooo much better.What a lovely shade of blue.Nice stuff.

    RK,quality work by your doc.Nice stitch work.Looks like a wee little shark bite.Did it heal looking like that? You could tell some really good baby shark stories while out drinking.Think of the possibilities!
    We have a soft side for fucked up fingers in this thread.

  • rr165892
    rr165892 Posts: 5,697
    deadendp said:

    I don't mind. I was out on a buying trip for work. I had been gone for a week, I was exhausted, but I got back early enough to go to my stained glass class. Cutting glass while tired is not a good thing. I snapped the glass up and into my thumb as opposed to away from myself. I think I ended up with 14 stitches total. (Some inside, some outside.) It instantly went numb. It isn't as strong as it was. There is definite atrophy when you compare the two hands. (I'm right handed and the injury was to my left.)

    A handful of years prior to that, I burned the hell out of the same hand/thumb in glassblowing. I was assisting a classmate, she flashed the pipe in further than you typically do, didn't tell me and I grabbed hold at the typical hand holds. I heard my skin sizzle. (The glory hole she flashed it in was running at 2200 F.) I let go of the pipe and watched in slow motion as it was dropping to the floor. She screamed. I grabbed back hold before it hit the floor and helped her to finish the piece. The prof watched the whole thing. After we were done, she looked at my hand and insisted that she take me for medical care, but I declined. I thought I was fine. I did go later in class. I ended up in a burn mitt for a week, having to go back daily to have the dressing changed. It hurt like hell. I don't think that injury helped my glass cutting injury.

    There are reasons we buy the better health insurance policy.

    I'm thinking a class that dosent involve glass may be in your best interest.lol
  • northerndragon
    northerndragon Posts: 9,851
    edited May 2015
    deadendp said:

    ^^ Now that is a break. What'dya do there?

    Wasn't a break, tore a ligament in my ankle with style last summer stepping off my sisters porch....one day I will learn to walk like a big girl. I have pics on my external drive from the last time I took that ankle out and those are even more spectacular.
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  • deadendp
    deadendp Northeast Ohio Posts: 10,434
    ^^ Wow. :grimacing: Yikes.
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  • RKCNDY
    RKCNDY Posts: 31,013
    rr165892 said:

    Northern,that is Sooo much better.What a lovely shade of blue.Nice stuff.

    RK,quality work by your doc.Nice stitch work.Looks like a wee little shark bite.Did it heal looking like that? You could tell some really good baby shark stories while out drinking.Think of the possibilities!
    We have a soft side for fucked up fingers in this thread.

    Thanks rr...I originally scheduled the surgery with a regular doctor, but they kept screwing up my surgery date, so I told them to f-off. Went to a hand surgeon who was very excited to do the surgery, even his nurse said he loves the really technical surgeries like mine was.
    A bit of the lumpiness on the left side (closer to the tip) is there, but you have to really look for the scar. I get little phantom feelings in it...like it feels like it itches, but when I scratch, I don't feel anything.

    I've twisted both ankles something awful a few times...latest one I posted on fb...I'll post it here next time I log on there.

    I would love to learn glassblowing, but what happened to deaden would probably happen to me.

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  • deadendp
    deadendp Northeast Ohio Posts: 10,434
    ^^ The glassblowing incident wasn't even my fault! It was unfortunately someone in the studio that only cared about the piece that they were making and didn't take into account communicating with the person who was helping them. We had to work in teams and though she wasn't my favorite person to work with, you do what you have to do.

    It took 4 years for me to get into glassblowing at Kent. There weren't many slots. I did it for 2 1/2 years. I also did glass casting and I can bend neon. (Bending neon would be a lot more difficult for me to get back into than glassblowing.) Experience I wouldn't trade for anything in the world.
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  • Wobbie
    Wobbie Posts: 31,329
    I feel like smashing something so I can get back into this thread. I took a hell of a spill last week, but unfortunately there's no visual evidence....I just feel like someone beat the crap out of me.
    If I had known then what I know now...

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  • Hobbes
    Hobbes Pacific Northwest Posts: 6,438
    imalive said:

    I feel like smashing something so I can get back into this thread. I took a hell of a spill last week, but unfortunately there's no visual evidence....I just feel like someone beat the crap out of me.

    I think you've been through enough this week.
  • northerndragon
    northerndragon Posts: 9,851
    imalive said:

    I feel like smashing something so I can get back into this thread. I took a hell of a spill last week, but unfortunately there's no visual evidence....I just feel like someone beat the crap out of me.

    You should have gotten a pic from the colonoscopy, we would have counted that.
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  • RKCNDY
    RKCNDY Posts: 31,013
    Hobbes said:

    imalive said:

    I feel like smashing something so I can get back into this thread. I took a hell of a spill last week, but unfortunately there's no visual evidence....I just feel like someone beat the crap out of me.

    I think you've been through enough this week.
    He's had a shitty last few days...
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  • Last-12-Exit
    Last-12-Exit Charleston, SC Posts: 8,661
    imalive said:

    I feel like smashing something so I can get back into this thread. I took a hell of a spill last week, but unfortunately there's no visual evidence....I just feel like someone beat the crap out of me.

    So it must not be true.
  • Wobbie
    Wobbie Posts: 31,329
    Last-12-Exit said:

    imalive said:

    I feel like smashing something so I can get back into this thread. I took a hell of a spill last week, but unfortunately there's no visual evidence....I just feel like someone beat the crap out of me.

    So it must not be true.
    I think I have a few cracked ribs but my X-ray camera is in the shop.

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