Having a massive clear out (Woke warning - picture of stitches in hand)

DXP55 · 19 Apr 2022 at 13:23

We need to move some furniture around by next monday so we are sorting out rubbish.

Photo's -hundreds of them spanning 49 yrs so 90% are being binned but I found this one - Now this hurt -Not sure if that's first attempt or the repair.
Carpal tunnel surgery in 1993 - can't believe it's 30 yrs ago. Had both done at same time -Youth in training did my right hand and never felt a thing and consultant did this hand -woke up and my god it hurt - They sent me home but I was back in hospital same night and was in for nearly a week - Fortunately they did it again and it's been fine ever since - I think now it's key hole surgery.

randal · 19 Apr 2022 at 13:26

Well you weren't being palmed off, gotta hand it to you.

VincentHanna · 19 Apr 2022 at 13:30

They did both hands at the same time? Surely it would make sense to do one, let it heal, then do the other?

DXP55 · 19 Apr 2022 at 13:39

I asked for both done at same time - My problem was I am left handed except for loo paper. :cry:

arknor · 19 Apr 2022 at 13:56

looks like a stitch up

Chris Wilson · 19 Apr 2022 at 15:20

Should have gone to a French surgeon, that fella' looks like he learned his trade stitching mail bags in the nick

Kelt · 19 Apr 2022 at 15:57

Quite a handsome looking scar.

MasterBaker · 19 Apr 2022 at 16:07

Do you tell people you used to be Spiderman?

Josh · 19 Apr 2022 at 16:20

How fast were you stroking man, jesus.

DXP55 · 19 Apr 2022 at 19:33

Surprisingly after 30 yrs you can't see a scar on either hand -having them done was like being reborn - Riding bike I had to wind throttle wide open and get speed up then let go and shake my hand till pins and needles went -then repeat - In the end I could hardly use either hand - the Dick of a Doc kept saying it was FWT (fare wear and tear ) - this went on for years and one day I went back for some painkillers and he was on holiday - The young Doc covering for him had me a hospital appointment within weeks - Once that was done I had op a few weeks later.
I don't think anyone could imagine what the relief was like - That messed up left hand was still worth the pain to finally be free of it.
I worked with my hands and things like knocking a cable cleat in was a nightmare - you pick one up and when you put it to cable there isn't one there -you never picked it up as you couldn't feel anything.

Oh the good old days

V F · 19 Apr 2022 at 19:56

Woke warning? I'm not following. :cry:

Uther · 19 Apr 2022 at 21:04

I'm not entirely sure that someone being a consultant necessarily means they are any good. The butcher who badly put my leg back together after a bike smash in 1983 bodged it so badly I spent two years on crutches. A lesser mortal did a much better job of it a couple of years later.