Re: Thumb Injury, deep slice by glass

From: Carey Gregory (tiredofspam123_at_comcast.net)
Date: 01/09/05 

Date: Sun, 09 Jan 2005 01:13:29 -0500

"RebelWarrior" <MustangDreams19@yahoo.com> wrote:

>Hi everyone.
>Two days ago I was pulling broken glass out of my bedroom window. One
>piece was stuck, I don't remember exactly how but the next thing I knew
>I was staring at a deep gash in my right thumb. In the split second
>before the blood starts to pour I saw, basically, the inside of my
>thumb including bone. It started at the second line up and stopped at
>the top line. I'm pretty sure I nicked both the tendon and the nerve.
>Slightly above where the cut stopped is a few small white areas, if I
>touch the area by accident or bump it, it hurts like heck, and if I
>lightly touch it though I can't feel a thing, this area of the thumb,
>no bigger than a dime cut in half, feels dead to the touch.
>I didn't get stitches or anything, am just letting it heal itself.
>However I'm wondering about that nerve and whether this small area of
>no feeling will ever be normal again?

Who the hell knows? A cut that deep needed medical attention. Maybe your
hand will work right again someday and maybe it won't. It might even get
far worse than it is now.

Oh, and I don't suppose you've had a tetanus shot in the last 10 years...

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