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
on 2005-07-06 11:49:43.0, Dodger commented:
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?
and, further, on 2005-07-06 0:06:11.0, ben wolfson commented:
This was two years ago.
and, further, on 2005-07-06 0:53:13.0, ac commented:
They still don't overlap right when bent.
What does this mean?
and, further, on 2005-07-06 13:03:42.0, ben wolfson commented:
Well, the problem is actually that they do overlap a little at times. My pinky sort of folds under my ring finger a bit.
and, further, on 2005-07-06 22:26:31.0, dave zacuto commented:
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.
and, further, on 2005-07-07 0:58:13.0, rone commented:
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.