The Story Behind This Photo #3

broken metacarpal!, originally uploaded by ehdtstudios.

So this one's a doozy.

That my friends, is my right hand. I took this photo shortly after realizing what I had actually done to it. I took this while waiting in the hospital emergency wing-- suffering!

Oh, for reference -- here is what regular 5th metacarpals should look like. Straight, relatively.



So I'm not going into detail as to how I fractured it. I'm just saying, it was dumb. Really dumb. Hard objects, versus bone...bad idea.

I cleanly separated the bone right before it turns to the metacarpal joint into two pieces. Pain is an understatement. Agony is just the tip of the ice berg. Well, not so much while it was broken and resting -- but the reduction of the fracture. Picture a regular sized male doctor putting all his weight on my poor hand. I nearly fainted. I went pretty pale, sorta...fell asleep for a minute. It got mad hot in that tiny room. I didn't cry though...oh yeah.

So it was about 1 month in an ulnar gutter splint. Which looked badass.

And that's how I broke my hand -- and that's why there is a picture of my hand -- because it is deformed into a grotesque position.
Great.