More misery

Well... it was only a matter of time until this happened so just as well I got it over and done with.

Had my ice skating lesson Tuesday and after I was done, I still had some ice time left so I continued to skate and practice. And then, suddenly - BOOOM. Flat on my ass. I felt pain in my left hand and my butt was hurting a little too. My instructor and others that were on the ice came over to check if I was ok. I suppose I was kind of ok though my left hand hurt like hell. I managed to take a few deep breaths to calm down and then moved off the ice and sat down for a while. Then I packed my stuff up and left... at this point my hand was killing me and it had started to swell. Oh boy. Hyphchondriac me thought "I've broken my wirst!!!" but I didn't know what to do so off I went driving back to work. I figured someone would be there who'd know what I should do LOL


Indeed, I was lucky because a colleague had worked for an orthopaedic doctor years ago and told me that if I could move my fingers and my wrist, it wasn't broken. Phew! Then she told me to go to the Lahey walk in clinic in Burlington, since I didn't have a Primary Care Provider (in plain English, a doctor). So I spent the next 4 hours at work icing my hand with an ice pack I found in the freezer, and then went to the walk in clinic.

Surprisingly, everything went quite smoothly. I waited for a while then was called in, I was asked what was going on, they took my temperature and then sent me back to wait some more. After a while they called me in again and a doctor looked at my hand which at this point was ugly swollen and started turning slightly blue and then he started poking it!!! I mean, OOOOOWWWW!!!!!!! STOP FRIGGIN POKING ME, IT HURTS!!!! Obviously he needed to figure out if my navicular bone was broken (ha, google it if you don't know what it is) but it still hurt like hell. So then he sent me to radiology where a very nice guy called Larry took about 6 x-rays of my hand in different positions. Then he sent me back to wait some more. Then I was called in again and the doctor came back and told me that it doesn't look like I'd fractured anything and he gave me a splint to keep my wrist straight (see pictures below). He also told me that I needed to RICE. I was like... HUH???
Rest, Ice, Compress, Elevate. Ahhhmmm... of course, I knew that! ;-)
The doc was kind enough to show me the x-rays, I asked him if I could take one home and he said that's not possible cause nowadays they're digital (and then he showed them to me on the screen - I've got SUCH pretty bones in my hand, I can't even tell you! It's definitely one of my best features!). Shame, I would've liked to post them here - as things stand, just two bad pics of my hand in a splint will have to do.

Needless to say, being a lefty makes this such a big annoyance. I can't wash my hair, I can't dress myself properly (not with a bra anyway!) and I'm not even gonna get into details about my visits to the toilet LOL Thankfully, I already feel much better so I'm in good spirits about it. Two, three more days and I should be back to normal (I hope!)