First Quarterly Finger Report
Apr. 1st, 2014 10:33 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
lydyIt has been a quarter of a year since I damaged my finger. How's it doing?
Sigh with sigh sauce.
So, if it had been possible to compromise only the flexion, or the extension, but not both, I think this might be easier. I feel like I'm in a constant fight. When I wear the brace to straighten the finger, it gets stiff and doesn't want to bend. When I get the finger all bendy, it doesn't straighten worth shit.
I inadvertently ran an experiment over the weekend. I did almost no exercises for two days. (I was busy, ok?) I found that I had lost significant strength as well as flexibility. In two days. So very annoyed. Working on getting that back.
I still can't quite hold my hairbrush properly. While I can brush my own hair, the ring finger doesn't actually flex enough to grasp the handle. That's actually the only daily task that's compromised. So, I guess that's good.
It doesn't hurt, except when I do my exercises, or sometimes when I'm wearing the splinty-bracey thing.
So, I guess fair to partly cloudy. If this is all the utility I get back, it's completely liveable, but it's annoying. And I really wish I was seeing more day-to-day progress. And I wish that all the things that are good for me didn't hurt.
Sigh with sigh sauce.
So, if it had been possible to compromise only the flexion, or the extension, but not both, I think this might be easier. I feel like I'm in a constant fight. When I wear the brace to straighten the finger, it gets stiff and doesn't want to bend. When I get the finger all bendy, it doesn't straighten worth shit.
I inadvertently ran an experiment over the weekend. I did almost no exercises for two days. (I was busy, ok?) I found that I had lost significant strength as well as flexibility. In two days. So very annoyed. Working on getting that back.
I still can't quite hold my hairbrush properly. While I can brush my own hair, the ring finger doesn't actually flex enough to grasp the handle. That's actually the only daily task that's compromised. So, I guess that's good.
It doesn't hurt, except when I do my exercises, or sometimes when I'm wearing the splinty-bracey thing.
So, I guess fair to partly cloudy. If this is all the utility I get back, it's completely liveable, but it's annoying. And I really wish I was seeing more day-to-day progress. And I wish that all the things that are good for me didn't hurt.
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Date: 2014-04-01 09:22 pm (UTC)Your inadvertent experiment gave you good information about the usefulness of the exercises.
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Date: 2014-04-02 11:46 am (UTC)Glad to hear your lesson in the importance of PT came cheaply. As for myself, I've had a cold for a week and haven't done my PT for my knee -- and I can feel it. This is *years* after I had my little knee operation.
You'll get more back as you put more in. I'd say "good luck," but really it's all hard work.