Mummy Unwrapped
Aug. 22nd, 2010 01:21 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
judifilksign My wrist and thumb mummy wrappings came off this morning.
Lots of purple dots from where the doctor marked up my hand for the procedure. Lots of blue knotted threads sticking out jauntily. Bright yellow skin, which at first I thought was bruising, then realized was the stuff they painted my hand with to make it sterile. I will have a boom-a-rang shaped scar. Weird not to have a bump where I have had a lump for the past year, though.
My hand and wrist tingled like anything to be released from the wrappings. It was nice to bend my wrist back and forth again. It was depressing to realize that bandage or no, I still cannot bend my thumb. I know my tendon was cut into, and will need time to heal, but I guess I thought I'd be all better as soon as the big bandages came off.
So now, I have layered flexible fabric BAND-AID bandages about my thumb, and at least my hand is cooler.
But I guess Burton will have to wait a little bit longer. *sigh*
Lots of purple dots from where the doctor marked up my hand for the procedure. Lots of blue knotted threads sticking out jauntily. Bright yellow skin, which at first I thought was bruising, then realized was the stuff they painted my hand with to make it sterile. I will have a boom-a-rang shaped scar. Weird not to have a bump where I have had a lump for the past year, though.
My hand and wrist tingled like anything to be released from the wrappings. It was nice to bend my wrist back and forth again. It was depressing to realize that bandage or no, I still cannot bend my thumb. I know my tendon was cut into, and will need time to heal, but I guess I thought I'd be all better as soon as the big bandages came off.
So now, I have layered flexible fabric BAND-AID bandages about my thumb, and at least my hand is cooler.
But I guess Burton will have to wait a little bit longer. *sigh*
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Date: 2010-08-23 01:28 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-08-23 03:09 am (UTC)Just doing things as I normally would do is supposed to grant me full mobility back.
I guess that if I start having problems with mobility after the normal healing time, then I'd get some. When I get my stitches out in the first week of September, I guess I'll find out whether I'm on the right road to recovery.