Category Miscellany
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About six weeks ago I dislocated my first knuckle (the one closest to the palm) of my middle finger on my left hand - and I am left handed. I did it while trying to "power thump" something while playing with my kids (a long story, and I am not going to go into it here). A byproduct of this is that I screwed up some ligaments that hold my tendon on the top of that knucke for that finger - my tendon slides off of the top of the knuckle, off towards the pinky side of my hand - and it hurts like hell. I went to the emergency room, they splinted it, and told me there was a 50/50 chance that it would heal and not require surgery.

Fast forward to yesterday. I was playing around with my dogs, and damned if I didn't hurt my finger again, and my tendon slides off the knuckle again. I went to my regular orthopedist, and he said that those ligaments aren't healing - and I am going to need surgery to fix my finger.

Crap.

So, I am scheduled to go under the knife, again, next Wednesday. It is outpatient surgery - the surgery itself should take about 30 minutes or so - and I'll be in a cast for 3-4 weeks. That sucks. The good news is that this should fix the tendon issue once and for all, which makes me happy.

Oh, I also found out one other thing while at the doctor, and this has me a little depressed. As you may or may not recall, I had surgery early last year to remove a bunch of extra bone from my left hip (called "heterotopic ossification"). The surgery wasn't as successful as I had hoped - that had to leave a bunch of bone in there to preserve the integrity of the hip socket. I was shot with radiation to (hopefully) prevent the regrowth of the bony scarring. Over the last few months, the pain has been coming back. I have kept most of my regained mobility, but my hip has been progressively hurting more and more.

Well, yesterday I had an x-ray done of my hip, and my fears were confirmed. My hip has begun to regrow the bony scarring crud. It's coming back, despite being shot with radiation.

Crap. Again.

This puts me in a pretty bad mood, to be honest. I am trying to deal with it as best as I can, but living with chronic pain is not easy. I am working with a pain management specialist now, but I must say it is tough. I don't know why I am sharing this, except to just let you know that if I am ever short with you, or if I ever seem "down" or "not myself", it is probably because I am having a bad pain day. Sorry.

OK, enough depressing posts. I'll try to come back with a cheery post soon. Thanks for letting me vent.

Rock