Hand surgery how long off work?

rickjames

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Broke my middle and ring fingers ten days ago playing football. A&E that night and got my hand put in a cast until Wednesday when the doctor took a look and said we'll decide on naturally healing/surgery next week. Went back in today and the xray suggests its worse so I'm penned for surgery this Friday.

I work in IT and was in last week on Tue/Wed/Thu morning before being unable to deal with the pain and taking that afternoon and Friday off. Has anyone been in a similar position? I'm just wondering following surgery if I'll have to take a longer amount of time off or just see if I can bear if and go back first thing Monday.

Ta
 
neil_g said:
What kind of IT? Can you type one handed?
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ctrl-alt-del sucks one handed.

Depends on the surgery OP I doubt you will be straight back, are they pinning things (long nails they pull out later on after things have corrected an healed)? placing screws? will there be weeks or physic after to rehabilitate?
 
Get one of those disability writers they use in schools during exams for the kids with disproxlexiadhd syndrome. She can write for you while you whisper sweet nothings in her ear.
 
I carried on working with my arm in a sling (Fractured elbow socket), it depends what sort of IT role you're doing, and how it impacts your ability to do it. If you can work at a reasonable speed one handed, and the pain isn't sufficient to impact your concentration, then do that.

On the flip side, if you really can't do the job at a reasonable efficiency, or the pain is ruining your concentration, take the time to get it sorted properly.
 
Stephen Hawking writes books and he can barely move a muscle. Get back to work and stop being lazy. :p
 
We're on 8.1 that just boots to login screen, ha. As for general stuff I'm left handed and its my right that needs the surgery, which is a pins/screws/metal job.

Typing/stuff has felt OK the last day or two, just a bit of a ballache. Normally do a fair bit of A/V stuff but since doing it haven't done any lifting whatsoever
 
Hikari Kisugi said:
ctrl-alt-del sucks one handed.

Depends on the surgery OP I doubt you will be straight back, are they pinning things (long nails they pull out later on after things have corrected an healed)? placing screws? will there be weeks or physic after to rehabilitate?
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works in IT, and doesn't know how to input a ctrl-alt-del macro, obviously a non gamer :D
 
Sliver said:
He hasn't got a broken nose has he ? CTRL ALT ( left hand ) DELETE ( nose ) . Much result and many work prosperity. Happy days and free love to all diligent work people at company of honour.
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You can usually use the right hand ctrl+alt anyhow (though its not accepted on all systems/configurations).
 
Dolph said:
I carried on working with my arm in a sling (Fractured elbow socket), it depends what sort of IT role you're doing, and how it impacts your ability to do it. If you can work at a reasonable speed one handed, and the pain isn't sufficient to impact your concentration, then do that.

On the flip side, if you really can't do the job at a reasonable efficiency, or the pain is ruining your concentration, take the time to get it sorted properly.
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yea I agree if he can't be productive there's barely any point in going in.
 
I broke two metacarpal bones in my dominant hand, when the cast came off ~14 days after surgery (~21 days after the injury, hand was badly infected from a cut lower down one finger), all medical staff kept telling me was my hand was unusually swollen.

Referred to hospital physio several times a week, who then referred me to a specialist NHS physio unit in Wiltshire, which I had to attend (thankfully with overnight accommodation) four days a week (~5.5 hours of exercises spread over ~7.5 hour days).

They did an amazing job, I went there with a close to useless "thing" at the end of my arm and came away with something close to a normal hand.

Accident to going back to work: Just under 3 months.
 
I used to work with someone that broke both their wrists in a motorbike accident. He was off for a few months, working from home towards the end as it was a while before he could drive again.
 
Sliver said:
He hasn't got a broken nose has he ? CTRL ALT ( left hand ) DELETE ( nose ) . Much result and many work prosperity. Happy days and free love to all diligent work people at company of honour.
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Careful with face planting a keyboard. That's how we got twilight.
 
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