On Tuesday, May 20th, I go back to the hand surgeon to get my sutures removed from my finger. Hopefully, that will be it and I will be done and over with this whole thing and I hope that the ganglion does not reappear ever again. It's been challenging enough trying to do things without being able to use my left index finger, like typing, for example. I make a lot of typos and end up spending more time going back and fixing them all. It takes me about three times longer to type with the remaining fingers of my left hand because every word I type needs to be fixed. Tying my shoes is also very challenging and it takes me forever to do that as well. Washing my hair one handed (because I cannot get my sutures wet) takes forever since my hair is so long. I tie my left hand up in a plastic bag and hope that it manages to keep my hand dry enough to protect my sutures until they are removed. I will be very glad to have this entire thing done and overwith once and for all. I was going to just have a bandaid over the incision after my doctor took off all the heavy bandaging on Friday but then I kept forgetting to be careful with my left hand and banged it a few times on things and also almost forgot to keep it out of the sink when doing things. So I re-bandaged my hand in order to remind myself that I had surgery and I haven't yet gotten the stitches out. Not for a few more days. Wrapping it in bandaging also pads it so that when I do bang it on something, it won't hurt as much. It's still surprisingly tender for having been operated on 10 days ago. I suppose it will be for a while yet. My finger is also very stiff and I have lost significant range of motion that will need to be restored. I've got some thera-putty left over from when I had my tennis elbow rehabbed in physical therapy in late 2006 so I suppose I can still use that to work on getting my finger back to full function again. I've also got Chinese medicine balls that I can use to work it as well. So I am all set to do my own rehab on it once I get the bandages off and sutures out. Just a few more days of this, that's all. I'm bearing up well under the circumstances.
Sunday, May 18, 2008
Just a few more days....
On Tuesday, May 20th, I go back to the hand surgeon to get my sutures removed from my finger. Hopefully, that will be it and I will be done and over with this whole thing and I hope that the ganglion does not reappear ever again. It's been challenging enough trying to do things without being able to use my left index finger, like typing, for example. I make a lot of typos and end up spending more time going back and fixing them all. It takes me about three times longer to type with the remaining fingers of my left hand because every word I type needs to be fixed. Tying my shoes is also very challenging and it takes me forever to do that as well. Washing my hair one handed (because I cannot get my sutures wet) takes forever since my hair is so long. I tie my left hand up in a plastic bag and hope that it manages to keep my hand dry enough to protect my sutures until they are removed. I will be very glad to have this entire thing done and overwith once and for all. I was going to just have a bandaid over the incision after my doctor took off all the heavy bandaging on Friday but then I kept forgetting to be careful with my left hand and banged it a few times on things and also almost forgot to keep it out of the sink when doing things. So I re-bandaged my hand in order to remind myself that I had surgery and I haven't yet gotten the stitches out. Not for a few more days. Wrapping it in bandaging also pads it so that when I do bang it on something, it won't hurt as much. It's still surprisingly tender for having been operated on 10 days ago. I suppose it will be for a while yet. My finger is also very stiff and I have lost significant range of motion that will need to be restored. I've got some thera-putty left over from when I had my tennis elbow rehabbed in physical therapy in late 2006 so I suppose I can still use that to work on getting my finger back to full function again. I've also got Chinese medicine balls that I can use to work it as well. So I am all set to do my own rehab on it once I get the bandages off and sutures out. Just a few more days of this, that's all. I'm bearing up well under the circumstances.
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