Tuesday, October 17, 2006
A month of rehabilitation
The good news I got today was that my finger's healing according to plan and the x-ray showed that the bone is back into position. The bad news is I would have to go through another 3 weeks of rehabilitation and come back for follow ups every week.
When I went into the surgery room, I thought they would probably just inject some painkillers and just pull out the metal bars with bare hands. How wrong was I when the doctor took out a brand new pair of PLIERS and place it on the table! Wah lan, u can be sure my eye balls nearly pop out at the sight of that frightening pair of pliers!
Anyway I've learnt my lesson from the previous experience, so this time I request for just 2 jabs of painkillers instead of 6 or 8. I didn't want to feel numb like shit was my reason. So the doctor jab me twice on the finger. I could feel my flesh tearing as he pull the jabs in and then out. Blood soon started to flow and within 5mins my finger was like some frozen ice or robotic material.
Next he asked if I wanna see the whole process or I choose to have my eyes covered up with some goggles. I choosed to view the whole processs. First he pulled my finger, trying to straighten it abit more before cutting the sides with some sharp equipment or whatever u call it. I could see blood flowing out like nothing. I felt a deep pain. Then before I knew it, he placed the pliers on one of the bars and pull it out. More blood came flowing out. The other bar was also pulled out in no time.
I tried to bear with the pain and try snapping the process but the nurse stopped me. Damn! So thats it, 2 big holes on both my finger and there was the stitching up. My whole finger felt like a some dead person's finger even though I've never touched one before. The skin is so raw and rough plus the feeling inside is so 'frozen' and numb. Nevertheless I'm glad I don't have any metals in my fingers anymore, it certainly feels alot more comfortable even though its still painful now and then.
I think its been like 8 weeks since I touched chicken meat or good food. Couldn't resist it any longer so headed to Ikea with my dad and had an extremely stomach filling lunch there. There's chicken of course! Heh!
The good news I got today was that my finger's healing according to plan and the x-ray showed that the bone is back into position. The bad news is I would have to go through another 3 weeks of rehabilitation and come back for follow ups every week.
When I went into the surgery room, I thought they would probably just inject some painkillers and just pull out the metal bars with bare hands. How wrong was I when the doctor took out a brand new pair of PLIERS and place it on the table! Wah lan, u can be sure my eye balls nearly pop out at the sight of that frightening pair of pliers!
Anyway I've learnt my lesson from the previous experience, so this time I request for just 2 jabs of painkillers instead of 6 or 8. I didn't want to feel numb like shit was my reason. So the doctor jab me twice on the finger. I could feel my flesh tearing as he pull the jabs in and then out. Blood soon started to flow and within 5mins my finger was like some frozen ice or robotic material.
Next he asked if I wanna see the whole process or I choose to have my eyes covered up with some goggles. I choosed to view the whole processs. First he pulled my finger, trying to straighten it abit more before cutting the sides with some sharp equipment or whatever u call it. I could see blood flowing out like nothing. I felt a deep pain. Then before I knew it, he placed the pliers on one of the bars and pull it out. More blood came flowing out. The other bar was also pulled out in no time.
I tried to bear with the pain and try snapping the process but the nurse stopped me. Damn! So thats it, 2 big holes on both my finger and there was the stitching up. My whole finger felt like a some dead person's finger even though I've never touched one before. The skin is so raw and rough plus the feeling inside is so 'frozen' and numb. Nevertheless I'm glad I don't have any metals in my fingers anymore, it certainly feels alot more comfortable even though its still painful now and then.
I think its been like 8 weeks since I touched chicken meat or good food. Couldn't resist it any longer so headed to Ikea with my dad and had an extremely stomach filling lunch there. There's chicken of course! Heh!
posted by mango at 4:11 PM
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