Re: Thumb Injury, deep slice by glass
From: PF Riley (pfriley_at_watt-not.com)
Date: 01/09/05
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Date: Sat, 08 Jan 2005 22:36:05 -0800
On 8 Jan 2005 21:48:31 -0800, "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?
If you truly have a well-defined area of numbness then you probably
did severe a small branch of a cutaneous sensory nerve. Generally some
sensation will return to the numb area over several months as other
nearby branches sprout new nerve endings but it probably won't be the
same as before.
PF
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