Proper broken!

Well, my busted hand didn’t seem to be getting any better, so I took a trip down to casualty to see what they thought. Obviously I was armed with stories from friends along the lines of Oh, there isn’t much they can do, they’ll just strap your fingers together or something.

Some hours later, I emerged with a cast from my fingers most of the way up to my elbow. Great. Still, the break looked ace on the x-ray. I’ve snapped the outermost metacarpal (I think) good and proper.

It’ll be interesting to see how I cope with work for the next few weeks. I guess I’ll have to become ambidextrous with the mouse…

Posted in General, Injuries on Wednesday, August 9th, 2006

11 Responses to “Proper broken!”

1. matt on August 9th, 2006 at 11:52 pm

EEP! I’ve heard they’re bad to snap, because erm.. bollox I forget, there’s some reason, like they set lumpy or you get hands like Wolverine or summit.

2. Pete on August 10th, 2006 at 9:05 am

Ouch. Perhaps you should try and get a mouse ball set into your cast and wire up a little USB cable to it?

3. brett on August 10th, 2006 at 10:32 am

What ! you nut at least you can say you did a run of super morzine with a broken hand ! gnarly

4. SimonB on August 10th, 2006 at 11:28 am

Ooops.

5. Olly on August 10th, 2006 at 12:43 pm

you get hands like Wolverine

That sounds 100% of ACE!

6. Weon on August 10th, 2006 at 6:22 pm

Does that make you super-hard for having a broken hand for almost a week before going to the hospital or super-dumb for having a broken hand for almost a week before going to the hospital?

Here, have some healing vibes…

{vibes – – – – ooh}

7. Olly on August 10th, 2006 at 7:44 pm

Er, yes. And thanks :)

8. Molly E. Holzschlag on August 14th, 2006 at 12:59 pm

Ollie, ouch!

But just think, you could draw XHTML tags onto your cast, and then style according to your daily mood :)

9. Olly on August 14th, 2006 at 2:18 pm

GEEEEEKATRON!!! :)

I’ve got a nice blue cast now.

10. rob on November 14th, 2006 at 9:15 pm

Yes m8, same break as the 1 a recived couple of wks ago when down day after the mornin of the town fight, 2 get my split, which is like a half cast thing on inner arm up to a swan shaped pos, wrist bk fingers bent over.

4 wks time it should be as gd as new yes u can still fight the same really. apart from 2 things mayb knuckle fraction set bk and sm lump on bk of hand. i got both.

this is recived by punch or catchin ur opponent wrong. which is y it is called the ‘boxers break’ – o also if u punch a wall.

11. stevo on January 20th, 2007 at 10:08 pm