Wow, a clear realization today on exactly how important having an oposible thumb really is. As most of my few readers already know, I had a small skiing accident on Saturday and injured my right hand thumb (I am right handed). This morning I bit the bullet and payed my Kaiser co-pay to ensue nothing was broken, etc. even though my good friend Ginger is an RN and had checked me out last night. Anyway, x-rays show nothing obviously broken, just a sprained thumb (called the classic skiers thumb since it is so popular. I now have a hard fiberglass splint around my thumb, up my forearm, and wrapped with an ace bandage. It hurts in waves, but the hardest part is the simple things, thus this post. I have only had the splint for a few hours but have already proven how hard it is to do some of the more mundane things. Here is my list so far, I'm sure it will get longer as the days go by (in no particular order).
Use the computer mouse
Type (this has been a very difficult post)
Turn the ignition key in the car
Tuck in shirt while trying to keep my pants near the top.
Shoot pool (sorry guys)
Hold all things properly to go #1
The paper work after going #2 with the wrong hand
Eat with the wrong hand (can't hold the fork without my thumb)
Open one of those blister packs with the cold medicine
The list goes on and on. I will come out to pool this evening for the team, but won't bring my cues. If in a pinch, I can shoot, just not comfortably nor hard enough to break or for a good stop shot.
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Hello, #1 Son. You're beating on yourself again, I read. Well, that's part of life. If it isn't physically it's mentally or at least psychologically.
Hearing that you are OK is great. Yeah, I know it hurts, but . . . as parents are likely to say, "It could be worse" so, I won't say. Love and concern are here anyway.
The other side to what you said on your blog, if there are two sides, and there always are - to everything we say - is the story of how the hurt took place. Hearing some details would be a little more exciting than how you are wrapped by a sports bandage. So, by blog, by e-mail or by tele, let your parent(s) hear the whole story, my young hot-dog skier.
Dad
With love and curiosity.
BTW, nice explanation of the need for opposable thumbs.
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