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Thumb Injury 5th Dec 2007
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Decided to sharpen a peeling knife and man was it sharp, I felt it hit the bone !!.
Decided I had better get a couple of stitches so took some photos first & e.mailed them to my mates and got my brother to drop me at casualty dep.
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Saw a trainee doctor who decided I should show her that I could bend the thumb, I duly obliged & then she decided to push down on the thumb nail and have me exert pressure upwards which was when the partly severed tendon decided to fully sever !!!!!!!!!!!!! Oh Dear !!!!!!!!!
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Had to wait 4hrs to see a plastic surgeon who told me an operation was needed to repair the damage and would have to be off work for 2 months. He put on a dressing & plaster cast and said to return to hospital 8.30am the following day.
Photo is at home soaked in sweat after walking home (all uphill) from hospital
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Arrived at hospital 6th Dec 8.30am, got to operating theatre 4.00pm and had it done under local anesthetic, they would not allow me to take the camera in !!
Below are photos of an actual operation to repair a tendon in the palm of the hand mine was the same operation but to the thumb tendon that runs along the top of the thumb the stitches photograph is of my
hand. Notice the zig zag opening in the palm are the same as my operation
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Had to have plaster cast on to keep thumb straight.
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Good job I pick my nose with my right hand *******
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My boss decided to send me an early xmas box
* A POTATO PEELER*
I am stood in and around the packaging.
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Two weeks later the stitches were removed and everything is healing nicely.
Dec 24th off to Thailand for 3 weeks
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16th Jan and now back from Thailand (look at the tan ! ), the thumb is as good as new except for the mark of Zorro !!
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