Tom Cruise should be careful

I broke two fingers jumping over a couch.  They still don't overlap right when bent.  My burgeoning career as a violinist was ended forever.

The doctor placed one of the fingers so it would heal more-or-less correctly by the trusty grab 'n' twist method.  To prevent my passing out when he did this, he first pumped my hand full of anaesthetic.  This involved inserting a huge needle, attached to a huger syringe, into my palm, and then depressing the plunger until hemispheres of liquid formed on both sides of my hand.  I think that, by the end, the tip of the needle would have been all the way through my hand were it not for the newly-formed bulge.  He then basically pushed the stuff into my fingers.

It was almost cool enough to render the whole ordeal worthwhile.

Comments

[Dodger]

That injection sounds intense. Heal quick! But evidently you can still type -- or is now the time to tell us that your orthography is completely the work of one of those dictation-type word processors?

[ben wolfson]

This was two years ago.

[ac]

They still don't overlap right when bent.

What does this mean?

[ben wolfson]

Well, the problem is actually that they do overlap a little at times. My pinky sort of folds under my ring finger a bit.

[dave zacuto]

I broke a bone in my hand when I was 14 or so because I punched a couch which was in a dumpster. I had a similar quantity of anaesthetic pumped into the handal extremity. When the cast came off, my arm smelled like: the zoo in the capital of a country whose invention and dissolution were barometric indicators of the rise and fall of the Soviet; this is the sort of zoo in which animals were named half-wrongly or not at all, lying nameless and sunburnt on rocks mined by the CCCR's finest poets.

[rone]

I haven't broken any finger bones, but i've busted my joints often in the line of duty as a goalkeeper. The last time was on my ringfinger, and i had a hell of a time getting my ring off over the inflamed joint... wheeee.