Oi! Stoner! This is how you do hand X-rays..

My surgeon actually asked me if I wanted to take pictures. I’m pretty saddened by the whole ordeal / sight of it, but  worse things happen and I thought you lot would like a laugh / recoil in horror 🙂

Ouch.heal quick.

Ouch! My testicles receded into my body when I saw that, like a lizard under a rock.

Get well soon!

🖕

Was the injury proceeded by a shout of “watch this!”?

I hope it mends fast and well.

🤒… 🤒… 🤮

Get better soon.

Was the injury proceeded by a shout of “hold my beer, watch this!”?

Beaten to it by Matt!

Heal fast

Thanks for the well-wishes 🙂

Sadly it was an innocuous injury that, for various reasons, got bad fast. Nothing heroic – although I really should come up with a better story than the boring one I have.

As of today I’m booked for the beginning of January for some bone-cutting and joint-replacement surgery. I’m lucky in that my surgeon really gives a damn, has ushered me up the waiting list and spent a lot of time talking to me today to answer my questions, which I’m really grateful for – however I’m still bricking it a bit. Haven’t decided whether to be awake for the procedure.

Best bit…guess where the injection will be?

Armpit.

FFS!

Another candidate for the paralympic fingerbang team.

There are special Scottish swear words reserved for such occasions

Can I make the suggestion that you really don’t want to be awake for the procedure.
Talk about vomit inducing.
Get better soon.

At least it’s not your wan…drinking hand!

I’ve just googled the operation. I want to cry / throw up

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b2aWYDdGY30

The music is hilarious mind you

Best bit…guess where the injection will be?

Armpit.

Had that the other week (assuming they’re doing a nerve block?) it’s a properly weird feeling having to hold your arm to stop it flopping around, and weird that you can’t feel ANYTHING, despite the doctors and nurses throwing it around all over the place!

Edit, just seen the video, don’t worry. You’ll feel nothing, and won’t be allowed to look.

Get well soon.

As odd as it may sound, this isn’t something I want people to know about so I’m not talking to any anyone I know about it – but I’m also  “arrgh, I’m a bit scared”, so it’s nice to at least to have some support and advice from you bunch of shits.

Thank you 🙂

Another candidate for the paralympic fingerbang team.

Mixed doubles

mere flesh wound youth……… ;o)

heal well.

I thought you were meant to work it out with a pencil not your finger.
I hope you washed it before seeing the docs

So what do you call that injury? Metacarpal joint dislocation or something? Looks awful.

Just recovering from a screwed scaphoid op last week. Will get a new x ray on Monday to see what the screw looks like. Seemingly the screw took hold well and tightened up nicely.

I have some meccano in my right hand from snapping two metacarpals a few years ago.

Anyway get them to morphine you up it’s lovely stuff.

Oh no, you you-tubed it. You’ll know what they are doing now !! At least you are off washing up duties for Christmas.

I googled my shoulder decompression, but fortunately I was out. Was a bit bloody, but the nerve block is weird – one completely dead arm, then the feeling slowly comes back, fingers first.

An ‘other’ operation I did’d you-tube it, nothing serious but a bit grim. I only thought it would be keyhole, oh no, took a look under the ‘dressing’ and realised it wasn’t keyhole. Was nearly sick.

Oh I had nerve blocks for the 3 tendon flush ops I had last year for a nasty infection.  Your arm goes totally dead but the downside for me was when it came round and for about 4 hours it felt like my hand was being crushed in a vice, not even codeine and Ora-morph seemed to touch it.

Mine was for releasing my cubital tunnel/nerve from being trapped in my elbow. Codeine and ibuprofen seemed to cover it afterwards.

Surgeon commented on how muscular my arms were. Referring to my forearm 😕

I assume you’re having it done at LGI? They were really good with me, pre op especially, not my first rodeo so wasn’t worried, but they made sure I was ok with everything at every stage (complication with frozen shoulder)

Surgeon commented on how muscular my arms were. Referring to my forearm

More embarrassing than that Flashy, reckon it’s the years of dragging brakes down hills!

Imagine the “stranger” you can have with a medically dead arm…

No more one finger planching for you!

Imagine the “stranger” you can have with a medically dead arm…

A *cough* friend told me that cos it’s numb (properly so) from the shoulder down, you’d have better luck with a pool noodle, held at the farthest point from the business end…

Perhaps Bear will have better luck? #prayforbear

At least youve still got all the bits attached, and Jamie hasnt got anything to work with!

That looks wonderfully dramatic though. Good luck on the op…

Wow – that looks proper messed up.
Good luck when the surgery comes around – I’d choose to be awake, as although you know it’s going on, you don’t get to see anything really. .. and it’s less risky… I chose to be awake for my heart op last year

Heal up fast and completely!

Paracetamol will be your friend, 1gm every 6 hours, keep a paper and pencil handy to record doses so you don’t let the level drop. A much under-used, cheap and very safe painkiller.

Another broken bone here from the weekend, spiral of the fibula. Great time of year to be less mobile.

Good luck with the op. I worked with a guy who had his finger dislocated after getting it caught in a horse bridle thing. Had to have it amputated from the dislocated bit

A much under-used, cheap and very safe painkiller.

The majority of people on the liver transplant list are there because of paracetamol

get well soon bearnecessities (was going to add the thumbs up smilie but thought against it.

edit just looked at your x ray again and your thumb looks ok so 👍 😀

but seriously i hope your hand heals soon after operation.

Join the club – got 2 on same hand (1 with 2x screws)

The majority of people on the liver transplant list are there because of paracetamol

FactCheck: That’s not true. Most liver transplants are performed for chronic disease (Chronic Hep C, Chronic Hep B,Non-Alcoholic Liver Disease (NASH),Alcoholic liver disease, in that order, Source: https://www.cghjournal.org/article/S1542-3565(18)30611-6/fulltext. The UK will differ slightly).

Now, if you had said “on the Super-Urgent” list, you’d have been correct. But super-urgent makes up a small proportion of liver transplants.

Also I have no evidence whatsoever to back this up, but I’d guess 90% + of people on that super-urgent list either intentionally overdosed or abused the drug another way.

The point is that Paracetamol is a very good painkiller and is very well tolerated.

Also I have no evidence whatsoever to back this up, but I’d guess 90% + of people on that super-urgent list either intentionally overdosed or abused the drug another way.

It’s surprisingly easy to overdose on paracetamol. Many medications, like Lemsip, include 500 mg as an ingrdient. Adding these to a regular dose of a 1000 mg, some period pain medication as well, and you can be in trouble. Don’t expect people to read the labels too closely.

Fun fact 2 – the antidote comes in a Jiffy bag! (If you are Team Sky). N-Acetyl-Cysteine is the antidote, but is also a decongestent. Assuming you aren’t hypersensitive to it, as some are.

Hope the op goes well, and heal fast. Paracetamol provides excellent pain relief from fracture pain in my experience. It provides hives and hypersensitivity for Mrs TiRed.

Look on the bright side bear at least this guy isn’t performing the op.

Cheers for the ‘mixed’ reviews 🙂 – and clarifying that I won’t see anything. Still digesting it today, whilst trapped in the hell that was Victoria Car Park Leeds for the best part of the day.

To answer a bit from above, it started as a volar-plate avulsion fracture but ended up as ‘kin-‘ell!-finger-syndrome. Imagine a pork sausage, bent downwards and to the side bit with a cheeky-twist; that’s how my finger looks – so with the operation sorting it, to a large degree,I should be ecstatic really!

This is the innocuous image that started it all (sorry it’s not as gross) – you can see a  small chip at the base of the middle-knuckly-thing (PIP joint). God knows what the medical term actually is for what it is now. ****ed, probably.

I think I’m a bit of a freak-show for both students and experienced consultants down at the LGI as  it’s not causing me one bit of pain.

My dashingly-handsome and charming surgeon (I should really hate him) appears to be a good-‘un though, and generally interested in the best outcome for me so I’m grateful for that.

Anyhow, thanks again for all the messages – I’m not normally one to listen to other people’s opinions (because they don’t know everything about your circumstances yada yada) but this actually has been genuinely very helpful, and funny…and thank you for the well-wishes too.

Merry Christmas, and to you Jamie if you’re lurking!  Photoshop my finger better, would you?