We have lubed up our mighty door, and it opens and closes much more easily now. Unfortunately, the damage is done, and my wrist is undergoing some fascinating physiological changes. It is now mottled and blotchy, and pain has increased. I may have to pop into the emergency room to get it splinted up, but This Is AMERICA, and a couple of tongue depressors and a pressure bandage might bankrupt me, if applied by a trained professional.
Unfortunately, I have to compose an exam for my genetics class today, and the ouchieness of typing these short paragraphs is making me dread the effort of typing four or five pages. Maybe I can get a wrist splint at the drugstore today?
Ack! Please put it below the fold and show us some spiders instead.
You should change the handle on your door. I think that might be doing your wrist some harm as it looks really small.
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Jesus H. Christ! You tore a bunch of deep soft (muscle) tissue. Hope you didn’t damage any tendons. The yellowing means the blood has reached the skin. Having trouble imaging a door did that. You might want to apply some warm compresses, it will help reabsorb that huge hematoma and heal the damage faster.
Imagine reaching out and grabbing a massive weight and staining to pull it straight towards you. I didn’t feel anything at the time, but later I was made painfully aware that I’d torn something deep that I’d never paid attention to before.
If you’ve torn a tendon you need to see a doctor now.
If you decide to go in to the ER, be sure and have the photo of your door teed up and ready to show. It’s helpful to your provider to have a good visual. And you should probably go in to urgent care, if you have one. You need an X-ray, because it’s not just women our age who can have osteoporosis. But if that looks okay, a splint and some medication will make you a lot more comfortable. (No recommendations here, though. I don’t know you as a patient.)
I recall nearly missing a significant neck injury on a patient (Minimal pain, no point tenderness, no neurological deficits.) I was ready to reassure Mom and send the teenage boy* home…then his buddy showed me the video of him jumping off a roof into an above-ground pool.
CT scan was negative, but he talked to the neurosurgeons anyway and got admitted. An MRI next day showed big-time ligamentous injury to the cervical spine. Your case is probably not as fraught, but a thousand words of credibility can’t hurt.
*(Why is it always testosterone-addled males? Oh. Wait. I answered my own question.)
Some torque had to be involved. You may have been slowly damaging the tissue involved with the repeated stresses of dealing with that monster door. And then one final tug finished the job.
Speech-to-text is a fairly mature technology these days.
Ugghh! I hope the wrist/forearm mends. I’m trying to think aside from my back tweaking out on occasion what my last major injury had been. I do manage out of clumsiness to catch my pinky toe on stuff every so often. Lots of pain for such a small thing. It goes through the stages of bruising as has your wrist. Once it wound up stuck out to the side of my foot and I taped it to the adjacent toe for a few days. Not pleasant walking on it. Unlike your wrist, it wasn’t an essential articulation region.
You might have explored @8 already, but maybe of use with requisite formatting and editing.
This part spoken to keyboard:
“You could use speech to text to post here.”
Hmm…that worked better than my fingers on a smartphone keyboard.
Ouch! That looks painful PZ . Had a left knee issue and all I did was touch my heel to my butt. I still don’t know why that was so agonizingly painful. It took about 3 years to not hurt when I walk and I feel it when I dance . It’s a sort of “Hey I’m walking here!” feeling like Dustin Hoffman in Midnight Cowboy Sometimes when we get older our muscles get too weak to hold
The joys of ageing.
My own bruises and sprains and cuts take a week or two to heal up these days, when once it was mere days — or not much of a bruise in the first place.
(I do try hard to be aware of it)
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Mind you, when I was a small child I basically had permanent scabs/bruises on my elbows and knees, that was not much fun either. Kept happening, for some reason. :)
Woul;d there be anyone at the uni you trust who would be willing to help? Do they have the equivalent of school nurses there?