My finger broke
December, a rainy day fracture
Around mid-December, he broke his right middle and ring fingers with a little momentum.
Specifically, he was carrying a big tree with a friend and failed to lower it, pinching it between the ground and the tree.
Obviously it looks different from a normal injury. I'm so painful that I'm getting cold sweats and numbness. It was only painful for a few minutes, but after a few minutes, the swelling became strong and it was about to be 1.5 times as much as usual. And I can't move it.
There is also a picture of the affected area, but I will not post it because it is blue-black and grotesque.
He was put in a car driven by his friend and hurried to orthopedics. When I wrote the questionnaire (to be exact, I told it verbally and had the nurse write it for me), I was called to the doctor's office in a few minutes, probably because it was judged to be an emergency, and I decided to take an X-ray immediately. ..
In the meantime, the swelling and pain became more and more intense, and only the right hand had an unusual fever in his body.
While looking at the X-ray, he said, "Hey, it's broken."
According to the doctor, the affected area has cracks all over it, and it breaks in places. The shape is well maintained and there is no bone misalignment, so you don't have to fix it. If you heal your fingers while they are fixed, your muscles and nerves will harden and you will not be able to move, so even if it hurts, try to move as much as possible. For a few weeks, the swelling may be strong, or it may hurt just by hitting it. The bones themselves connect in about a month, but it may take about half a year for the swelling and sensation to completely recover. It is unlikely that there will be sequelae. It was such a place.
There are various types of fractures, such as "complex fractures" where the bones break apart and "open fractures" where the bones break through the skin and come out, which are troublesome, but as far as I can tell, in my case. Seemed to be a minor injury in the fracture. So, when I asked the doctor, "Isn't that a fracture that is a minor fracture?", "No, it's a fracture compared to a complicated fracture, and it's a fracture." I was told.
It's not fun just to break it, so I'd like to entertain the readers by writing an article in the form of the top 3 rankings that were inconvenient due to a broken bone. Sacrifice your right hand to provide entertainment.
Trouble 3rd place: Typing performance drops
Typing performance deteriorates
After a day, the pain was still severe, but the pain was unbearable. For the time being, I have contacted all the related parties that may be annoying, and from the next day, I will take painkillers and start working. My job as a writer and editor is typing almost all day, except when I'm talking. Or you can edit the image, etc. In any case, the main work is on a PC with your hands.
The good thing is that I could use my index finger. The index finger has the highest degree of freedom among the five fingers and is the finger that moves as intended (is it different?). It can be said that about 30% of the function of the hand is covered by the index finger. The little finger is 10% and the other fingers are 20%. Thanks to the use of such a reliable index finger, I think I was able to minimize the impact on typing. If you don't type gently, the vibration will be transmitted and the affected area will hurt, so you need to type gently and slowly.
Also, I was able to feel the greatness of getting used to it. Since I am systematically accustomed to inputting 10 lines of 5 x 2, I find it inconvenient to input with 8 lines and the efficiency drops. So, at the beginning, it was only about half the speed. However, if you think calmly, you can't use two, and if you maximize the potential of your index finger, thumb, and little finger, you should get 80% efficiency.
I organized the remaining three movements and gave each one the best role. He devised a position and finger movement that assumed eight fingers. Specifically, the index finger is in charge of the section that used the index finger and the middle finger, and the little finger is in charge of the section that used the ring finger and the little finger.
Now, after about three weeks, I may be able to feel the speed of 80%, and maybe 85%. If you think about it, there are many people in the world who do not have five fingers for various reasons, so if they can use a PC, that is not the case, and they should be using it on a daily basis. .. There is a rule that "home position" is "this finger is around here, this finger is around here, and this key hits with this finger", but such a thing is for people who have five fingers. It's just a guide, and each person who doesn't fit that will probably be using the PC in its original position.
At first, I was confused, but once I got used to it, the problem was alleviated, so the decline in typing efficiency was a problem, and I was ranked 3rd.
2nd place in trouble: I can't carry my luggage
Often, the borrowed equipment is carried to a desk or unpacked for use. If you put pressure on your right hand, you will feel pain even if you do not touch the affected area directly, so you cannot hold a heavy object with your right hand. If you want to carry something, you have to carry it with your left hand, but there are many things that you can not hold with one hand, such as desktop PCs and large equipment.
When carrying something that can only be carried with both hands, it is necessary to have someone put it on a dolly and carry it instead. It's a more difficult problem than typing in the sense that it can't be self-solved.
Also, although it deviates a little from the luggage, I was troubled with the elevator button. All buttons must be pressed with the left hand, as even lightly hitting the right hand can cause the sticking bones to peel off again. Most elevator buttons are on the right side, so if you try to push them with your left hand, you have to stretch your left hand and push it. If you have luggage, you have to put it down, open your left hand, push it with your left hand, and then pick it up again with your left hand.
There were times when people on the road were gazed at me, "What are you motivated to press a button?" Because it doesn't matter if you have a broken bone. However, there are times when it was good. For the past three weeks, people who passed each other in the office were scared and asked, "What's that !? What happened?" However, in many cases, they were half-interested and cared for. The clerk is worried that he / she will be willing to help me when carrying things, and even if I do shopping personally, even if it is not related to my work, "Is it okay? Can I take it home?" There were many.
As a result, I could feel the warmth of society, or the fact that there are quite a lot of people who reach out when I am weak, and it was also an opportunity to look back on my daily activities. For me, who was born with the satisfaction of five bodies and lived without any serious injuries, it is a fresh feeling to spend with some physical restrictions because it was my first experience in my life.
I can't carry heavy items until healed, but by hooking light luggage on my index finger and carrying it with my left hand as long as I can hold it with one hand, I didn't have much trouble with my daily shopping.
It must be inconvenient. However, there was some learning, and the only inconvenience was that I couldn't carry my luggage.
No. 1 in trouble: I can't use chopsticks, I can't write
Such a spoon is convenient because it can be both stabbed and scooped.
First of all, you need to eat to do anything, and you cannot spend the day without eating anything. And chopsticks often appear in Japanese meals. You need a ring finger and a middle finger to support chopsticks, and you can't use chopsticks if you can't use either.
The two solutions I considered were "use chopsticks with the left hand" and "devise a form that does not use the middle finger or ring finger".
However, both failed. As a right-handed person, if you hold chopsticks with your left hand, everything will not go as planned. The tips of the chopsticks do not fit, and the chopsticks rotate by slipping between the fingers. I don't know how long it will take for a child who has never used chopsticks to be able to use it, but I felt that it was necessary to train to get used to it from the first time in order to be able to use chopsticks with non-dominant hands.
Next, how to make a foam that does not use the middle finger or ring finger. This went to a good line, but it didn't work either. First, place chopsticks around the base of the undamaged middle finger and pinch it with your index finger. Hold the other as if you hold it with your thumb. By doing this, things can be pinched, but even the slightest weight of a bite of food is heavy for a broken finger, and when I try to grab it, it causes severe pain.
In the early stages, I gave up using chopsticks and changed to eating only what I could eat with my hand, or with a knife, fork, and spoon.
Hamburgers, sandwiches, hamburgers, sautéed chicken, pasta, soups, etc. I couldn't eat fish and natto with a knife and fork, but I didn't feel like eating them, so I decided to live a life centered on Western food.
Originally, it is not the type that "rice is indispensable for meals!", So this is a story that you can put up with it because the place to go to eat is restricted or you can not eat what you want to eat.
There are surprisingly many opportunities to write letters
But the bigger problem is the pen. Like chopsticks, a pen cannot be held correctly unless the middle finger can be used. Writing with your left hand is quite difficult. This also requires training close to that of a person who has never written a letter (in the case of a child, he learns a new letter and at the same time practices writing, but he knows that he is an adult. In addition, I fall into a frustrating state that I can not write well).
Although the opportunities to write letters have decreased considerably in modern times, the opportunities to write letters directly on documents occur almost every day.
The trouble is that in my case, I broke my bone just when I moved, so I have a lot of opportunities to go through official procedures, and I can write my address, name, phone number, my number, etc. on various documents with just my thumb and index finger. I will fill it out.
With just your thumb and forefinger, you can write letters if you take the time, but since there is no support diagonally to the paper, the letters will sway, and even if you write carefully, you will get the impression that you have sloppyly written. turn into. When I put out the documents in such a state to the window of the government office or the bank, the person in charge looks into me with a suspicious face and looks like "Oh? Is this person okay?" He noticed the condition and proceeded with the procedure as if he was convinced that he was injured. There were many times like that, and I thought it would be a big problem if I couldn't write properly.
Often, there is a gentleman-like grandfather who writes beautiful letters by holding a pen with only his thumb and forefinger and tracing them smoothly, but I would like her to tell me how to write letters in a stable manner.
Be careful of broken bones
That's why, at the end of the year, I learned that breaking a finger can cause a big hindrance to daily life, but it can often be covered by familiarity and ingenuity. I've listed them in the top three in this article, but there are limits to everything, not just those listed here. It was a day to rethink each and every gesture that I didn't usually think about, such as washing my hair, opening and closing zippers, and changing clothes.
The good thing about the fracture was that I wrote in the second place, "I was able to touch the kindness of people and think carefully about how to treat people with physical restrictions." All that remains is a problem. I would like you to be careful during the year-end and New Year holidays, when you often hear stories such as that you have been seriously injured by a small amount of time.
January 19, 2018: At the time of posting, there were some typographical errors, so we have corrected them.
