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[sovay]

Holy God, is it inconvenient typing with one hand in a brace. Somehow when the nurse practitioner said "splint," I envisioned something smaller. I've seen vambraces that were less hardcore. I do not know if I will get any movies written about today. My keyboard-intensive job is going to be fun. I think I'm going to see about lying down.

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[shewhomust]

Did you get a diagnosis, at least? Is it, as you thought, as sprain?

Hope the splintage works, and recovery is rapid!

[sovay]

Did you get a diagnosis, at least? Is it, as you thought, as sprain?

Whatever the original injury was, it was long enough ago that it was not immediately obvious when examined by the nurse practitioner. She thought what had probably happened was that I'd pulled or strained something in the course of ordinary life a couple of weeks ago, but not so badly that the pain kept me from using my hand, so I compounded the injury without knowing and by the time I noticed, it wasn't just going to calm down with ice and restricted use. She did not send me for X-rays because she agreed with me that even my stupid ideas of pain thresholds were unlikely to have missed fracturing a thumb.

Hope the splintage works, and recovery is rapid!

Thank you! Fingers crossed on the hand that'll do it, the brace is actually helping so far. It just really slows everything down.