My Hand and the Compression Glove!
My own hand for the theme of ‘Hand(s)’ for the group ‘Looking Close…..on Friday,’
Fifteen weeks ago, as it was a fine day, decided to make a start on sorting out the garden after the winter. Midway through the afternoon, caught my foot on a lump of earth as I was moving around and fell forwards, hitting the ground with some force and crushing my left arm and hand beneath my body!
Oh dear, it hurt!
I had broken the Radius very badly in my arm and also damaged and rearranged the bones in my wrist as well as crushing the hand and fingers. Later found that I had re broken some ribs that I had broken just a year or so ago!
Since then I spent seven weeks in plaster, six weeks with a removable splint and the last two weeks wearing this very tight compression glove that gives my hand and wrist some support and reduces the swelling.
My hand and wrist suffered complications in the natural repair ending up healing wonky due to the radius impacting, where the shaft and head of the radius collapse into each other!
Going to need a double operation to shorten the ulna, correcting the twist in my arm and hand as well as work to correct the position of the bones in my wrist!
So, the moral of the story is no gardening, it’s too dangerous!
Oh, and no driving for months. I shot this image using my handheld phone plus timer!
My Hand and the Compression Glove!
My own hand for the theme of ‘Hand(s)’ for the group ‘Looking Close…..on Friday,’
Fifteen weeks ago, as it was a fine day, decided to make a start on sorting out the garden after the winter. Midway through the afternoon, caught my foot on a lump of earth as I was moving around and fell forwards, hitting the ground with some force and crushing my left arm and hand beneath my body!
Oh dear, it hurt!
I had broken the Radius very badly in my arm and also damaged and rearranged the bones in my wrist as well as crushing the hand and fingers. Later found that I had re broken some ribs that I had broken just a year or so ago!
Since then I spent seven weeks in plaster, six weeks with a removable splint and the last two weeks wearing this very tight compression glove that gives my hand and wrist some support and reduces the swelling.
My hand and wrist suffered complications in the natural repair ending up healing wonky due to the radius impacting, where the shaft and head of the radius collapse into each other!
Going to need a double operation to shorten the ulna, correcting the twist in my arm and hand as well as work to correct the position of the bones in my wrist!
So, the moral of the story is no gardening, it’s too dangerous!
Oh, and no driving for months. I shot this image using my handheld phone plus timer!