Happy Festivus!

More gross pictures for you on this beautiful Christmas day!  The finger is starting to feel better, and I'm trying to lower my intake of Vicodin while coping with the pain.  Anywho, Wishing a Merry Christmas to you and yours!

jmk

Open Seasame!

Here's the before pics when I was waiting in the ER.  Ewww.

Home for the Holidays

Well, it would appear that I'm going to have some time off for the holidays.  Yesterday (Sunday the 21ast of December) I was working on our garage door opener.  While I was up on the ladder, trying to get the gear to turn and pull the door up, it unfroze long enough to grab my glove and pull it into the gear.  Unfortunately, my finger was still in the glove and was pulled into the gear as well.  Picture the gear and chain like a bike chain.  The difference is the immense amount of tension on the garage door chain versus the bike chain.  The result was a crushed middle finger (at least 5 open fracture points), fingernail broken off, and some nasty lacerations.  Went to the ER where they did a digital block (completely numbed the finger), trimmed of my fingernail, pieced the flesh back together and sewed it back (10 stitches in total).  They sent me home after giving me a gram of Ancef to ward off infection.  The worry is that I have multiple open fractures in my finger and susceptible to getting a bone infection.  Not to mention, I am on Vicodin.  Tomorrow, I see my normal physician to see when I can go back to work.  From what the ER staff told me, it would probably be 2 to 3 weeks.  My finger is vvvvvvvverry tender right now.  As it is, I am Vicodin all day long, so driving (thereby working) is a no.  I'll keep you all posted.  Here's a couple of pictures of what my finger looks like now, 1 day after it happened.  I'll try to get a picture of what it looked like right after the accident on here so you can see what the ER staff at Memorial had to work with.  Later all!

jmk