prognosis?

[dragonlady7]

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idk the thing abt orthopedists is they like to put u in braces. I am now in a wrist brace to support my haunted thumb. when he said this i was like … for an infection ?? but

his theory is that the current Situation is actually that the bacteria is in fact dead but has caused damage and inflammation on two of the tendons in my hand. And I do believe the tendons are inflamed– well the sheaths actually, the tendons themselves seem okay thank god– but i was still really skeptical, and only pacified when he first described in detail the conditions under which i should report to a hospital emergency room for IV antibiotics, secondly scheduled me a follow up for the day after tomorrow, and then thirdly after i drove home in the brace and the pain disappeared until i took the brace off.

oh.

so today i am off antibiotics and eating all the yogurt in the world and i’m gonna switch to ice cream later and a cream sauce with dinner because omg dairy my beloved i missed you

and i’m trying to monitor my temperature but it is damp and i am clammy so the thermometer keeps telling me i’m 92.7 degrees which at least means i don’t have a fever but the bad news is that indicates i’m dead somehow? so that’s alarming.

i cannot do a blessed thing in this wrist brace, is the bad news. but the good news is the pain is much less.

I coulda toughed this one out it turns out, but i wouldn’t have slept, so for the four hours of time and likely several hundred to a thousand dollars i’ll eventually be billed, i guess i’ll take a couple nights of sleep.

and yes yes i’m monitoring for signs of infection beyond just the redness and swelling of the tendon sheath inflammation. fucking meat suits what is all this about.

i’m so tired and i’m house and pet sitting for my sister and her neglected rabbit, for whom i have not fetched any celery or maple twigs in like eighteen hours, is nibbling my pants angrily. and somehow i have to wash like eight baskets of eggs with one hand. (Your picture was not posted)

Comments

[minoanmiss]

maybe the immobilization is helping with the healing?

WRT the eggs -- submerge a half dozen at a time in a bowl of water and use a slotted spoon to lift each one out?

[dragonlady7]

Oh yes, the immobilization is meant to help with the healing. It does seem to be working.

As for the eggs-- they're filthy in many cases, with chicken poop and sawdust bedding, and eight baskets of them is about mmm roughly 1000 eggs, so i'm not doing anything by the half-dozen, LOL. I have a few plastic tubs and what I did was sort them into those tubs filled with warm water, putting the cleanest ones in one tub and the dirtier ones in another, so I could then just pull the cleaner ones out quickly, and then let the dirtier ones soak a little before scrubbing them with my thumb. Which is how I normally do it only when I can use both thumbs and use my two hands independently it goes much faster. So it took about twice as long but that was the only thing I really had to get done today, so it wasn't so bad.

[minoanmiss]

ahahaha yeah I was thinking of the wrong power of ten when I made my suggestion.

takes notes for if I ever have to clean thousands of eggs

[harpers_child]

My best wrist brace advice is to sleep in the stupid thing. It's a couple solid hours where you aren't trying to do anything with your hands.