Even Flow..

Last time I blogged, I was sitting at the hospital (Huddinge Sjukhus, for the people who like to know where I go), waiting for my doctors appointment to check out how my finger was. Well, the fractures in my finger (about five or six in the little bone) were healing, but my finger was rotated. When making a fist, my finger doesn't go in the normal direction, but a few degrees too much to the other side. The orthopedic doctor didn't really know what to do with it and told me that I should go to the hand surgeon in a different hospital (Södersjukhuset this time) and let him check what we should do. The doctor made me and appointment on Monday morning, which meant that they would wrap up my finger in plaster again for the weekend. She told me that I should be at the hand surgeon sober, since if this guy wanted to operate on my finger, he might do it the same day. Well that kind of sucked. I wasn't really looking forward to getting my finger operated, since I want to use a computer. On Monday, I went there and after another set of x-rays the surgeon told me that my finger was rotated a bit and that there were 3 options: operate now and make it straight, operate later (which means breaking it again) and make it straight or just live with it and accept the fact that I have a crooked finger. The doctor wasn't a big fan of operating now, since the results might not be that great and there would be a chance of having scar tissue, since my muscles are still recovering. The same goes for operating later, but then the results might be slightly better. But operating would mean a stiff finger for 3 to 6 months. Keeping it as it is would give me back 100% strength and grip with the help of physiotherapy, but the only thing would be that my finger will always be a little bit rotated. No biggie I think, so I decided to leave it for now and do physiotherapy. The doctor gave me a splint that I can take off at work and that I have to wear for two weeks, outside and when I sleep, since my finger is still broken. After that, I should use the thing for 4 more weeks when doing something dangerous (whatever that means). Så, all well, I think.. I can type and thus code again, which was (apart from the difficulty of wiping my ass with my left hand) the biggest annoyance of not being able to use my right fingers..