Hi everyone,
Unfortunately I had a fall at the weekend (very dull story - looking for a car park machine, fell off a kerb and went flat onto my front). I need a better story for this but that beige, unexciting mundanity is what happened.
Hurt my ribs and little finger on my fretting hand. Being an idiot, I did nothing about it (bought car park ticket, went to lunch). My wife finally persuaded me to go to A and E two days later - I thought the finger was just bruised as it’s not painful enough to be broken but…. Middle bone on my left hand little finger is snapped like a breadstick and not at a great angle. I’m booked into hand clinic tomorrow and they’ll tell me what’s next. The emergency guy said that I can expect surgery. He may be wrong but looking at the X-ray I can’t see a way it will heal straight without intervention so I’ll be pleasantly surprised if that’s not the next step.
It’s a really good hand clinic here (I actually work with ultrasound machines to fund the music habit and I know quite a few of the team at the local hospital - they have a reputation for hand surgery). I’m in the U.K. so the only thing I have to worry about is the outcome…. I play guitar badly enough with four fingers and I kind of need that forth one. I know it could be worse as I could have trashed multiple fingers or my wrist - I went down with a heck of a bang.
Anyone got positive recovery stories for me? I’m hoping to retire in a few years and throwing the time at music that I unfortunately don’t get now was one of my plans. As well as guitar (a lifetime of fun and learning in itself) I’d like to get much better at bass and do more on piano besides picking out chords. Chat gpt just told me about Tony Iommi
. Could do with a few folks telling me they were fine as the less positive side of my brain has been going down the road of never being able to play my favourite songs again. Which is almost certainly ridiculous but brains aren’t always helpful at times like this!
Unfortunately I had a fall at the weekend (very dull story - looking for a car park machine, fell off a kerb and went flat onto my front). I need a better story for this but that beige, unexciting mundanity is what happened.
Hurt my ribs and little finger on my fretting hand. Being an idiot, I did nothing about it (bought car park ticket, went to lunch). My wife finally persuaded me to go to A and E two days later - I thought the finger was just bruised as it’s not painful enough to be broken but…. Middle bone on my left hand little finger is snapped like a breadstick and not at a great angle. I’m booked into hand clinic tomorrow and they’ll tell me what’s next. The emergency guy said that I can expect surgery. He may be wrong but looking at the X-ray I can’t see a way it will heal straight without intervention so I’ll be pleasantly surprised if that’s not the next step.
It’s a really good hand clinic here (I actually work with ultrasound machines to fund the music habit and I know quite a few of the team at the local hospital - they have a reputation for hand surgery). I’m in the U.K. so the only thing I have to worry about is the outcome…. I play guitar badly enough with four fingers and I kind of need that forth one. I know it could be worse as I could have trashed multiple fingers or my wrist - I went down with a heck of a bang.
Anyone got positive recovery stories for me? I’m hoping to retire in a few years and throwing the time at music that I unfortunately don’t get now was one of my plans. As well as guitar (a lifetime of fun and learning in itself) I’d like to get much better at bass and do more on piano besides picking out chords. Chat gpt just told me about Tony Iommi
. Could do with a few folks telling me they were fine as the less positive side of my brain has been going down the road of never being able to play my favourite songs again. Which is almost certainly ridiculous but brains aren’t always helpful at times like this!
