To everyone who knows or doesn't know by now, yes I did have a surgery today. At my follow up appointment on Friday the x-ray showed a non union fracture. The options are to cut my thumb off at the nail or try to repair it. I'm not ready to part with the thumb just yet so I opted surgery. Seeing as Melanie is going to pop pretty soon I wanted to "git r dun". Monday was open so it was fast. Basically he took a small core of bone from my radius and grafted it to the tip of my thumb and put a couple of pins in to hold it in place. ORIF of the distal phalanx for all you medical people. I will have the pins removed in about 4-6 weeks. This way I can start to get my joint more mobile on my thumb as it's been stiff for about 6 weeks already. I'm feeling pretty good and everything seem to go well. My only worry at this point is getting sensation back at the tip but that remains to be seen. The moral of the story is be smarter than me in the shop or if you can't pay someone to do your job. At this point I could've hired someone to do a lot more work for what I've spent on this incident. Thanks to everyone and your thoughtfulness. I look forward to thumb wrestling each one of you.
John
6 comments:
Yikes. Get better soon!
That is the biggest lesson we have learned in all of our home renovations too... there are definetly some things that are worth paying out for somebody elses labor! The hard part is knowing which things to hire out. You never know what is going to happen until you "dig in!" You have done a beautiful job though and have much to be proud of. Hope that thumb heals quickly!
I want the whole story! Just found your blog! Can't wait to keep up with you guys. We were just talking about you yesterday how we hadn't touched base lately. Can't believe you are due practically today. Come visit!
Hey guys,
Good thing you're in the field, free PT! I had no idea you guys are execting. How exciting! And boys are so fun too. nice know what you're up too...
Oh, I hope it all works, that would be a bummer to loose part of your thumb if it doesn't. Our prayers are with you, glad you know all about what they're doing and stuff, I think it makes it easier to handle.
Yuck! I hope your feeling better. I don't think I could have parted with my thumb either.
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