The View from a Drawbridge

Tag: cast

  • Thank Your Hands

    Last November I fell down a flight of stairs, dislocated my thumb, stupidly popped it back into place on my own with a resounding crunch (I sometimes have a freakishly high threshold of pain), and the result was a nasty case of De Quervain’s Tendonitis in my dominant hand. I was in agony and a…

  • Scars

    After my recent surgery I spent a week in a cast, wondering what my scar was going to look like. I didn’t look while the procedure was in progress. I’d have passed out cold. I needn’t have worried, because upon removing the cast I discovered the incision was less than a half inch long, and…