Never punch glass!

Phantom said:
ah well if it was accidental and not done in anger then i hope you make a full recovery. i put my knee through a sheet glass door.... and escaped without a scratch... came close to smacking it with my face - now that would have been bad :o
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It was done in anger, but I really didnt think ' oh its a glass door' i just hit it, i dont know why that particular glass door..

If i'd of punched wood or something like it, I could have still gone to the party that most of the arguement was about :(
 
rs125 said:
Cant be to bad then cus i had my stitches in for 6 weeks..well staples!! :p
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You might have had the same problem as me.
The doctor missed the fact that all the tendons were severed and concentrated on clamping the artery and sorting that part out.
I then had to wait for everything to heal before they could open me up and reattach the tendons. Unfortunately during this period the tendons shrink and they have to effectively cut them lengthways at an angle to stretch them

I woke after the general anaesthetic with my arm in a cast, holes in my fingernails and weird "cables" coming out of my fingers and into some "springs" set into the plaster. These were to "tie" my fingers down apparently.

After that I had various weird splints to straighten my wrist back out (those weeks in plaster set it firmly at 90 degree to my forearm, again to keep tension off my tendons) and 18 months of physiotherapy.

The physio really, really hurt. I actually bit the nurse once because the pain was so bad, another time I kicked out and kicked her. It was like having your wrist bent right, right back and yet it was only moving it from being totally forward to very slightly less forward.

Still this was 20 years ago and although it is much better I still don't have total freedom of movement in it, there is reduced feeling and recently when I pulled a splinter from the end of my index finger I felt it come out of my wrist.

Some years later I also broke 2 knuckles on the same hand and when I was 3 I severed my thumb when playing with a bicycle - turned it upside down and span the pedals as fast as possible. My thumb went into the chain/cog and crunch. It was reattached and give me no problems.

Sometimes though I will crush someones hand in a handshake or squeeze too hard, other times whatever I am holding just falls out of my hand as a result of the reduced sensitivity.

I still get jumpy when people knock on windows, I really don't like glass anymore. One of the lads in physio with me had done both wrists as badly as my one wrist. He had been cutting tiles, put one over the edge of the worksurface to snap it after scoring it and it went straight through both wrists as he pushed down on it. Poor bloke :(
 
found it.

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