Ow.

[rivka]

I smashed the back of my small hand between a full laundry basket and the pointy corner of a dining room chair. The area between and below my knuckles is all puffy and swollen now. For the first minute or two I had trouble moving my fingers, but then it got better. It's not comfortable to move my fingers now, but I can. Normal range of motion and everything.

It's bothering me more than an injury to the other hand would, even though an injury to the other hand would be more disabling. My left hand does most of the work. It's bigger and more muscular. It's the hand that gets burned when I'm careless in the kitchen. It's the hand that collects scratches and cuts in the course of my normal activity. My small hand is delicate, and usually protected - and that makes its present injury seem more alarming. Poor little hand.

(ObReassurance: No, I don't think it's broken. Yes, if it's worse tomorrow I'll get it X-rayed.)

Comments

[therealjae.livejournal.com]

*kisses* sent to your little hand!

-J

[wcg.livejournal.com]

Poor l'il hand. I hope it's feeling better soon.

[saoba.livejournal.com]

Poor *poor* lil Rivka. *pet*pet*pet*

Feel better soon, and please not to be breaking any parts of you.

[johnpalmer.livejournal.com]

Ouch... I hope you're better soon. (You know that cold will help for the first day or so, right?)

[rivka.livejournal.com]

(You know that cold will help for the first day or so, right?)

Yeah. I'd been thinking that I could get away without it, but as I was grocery shopping I started to get a burning feeling on both the palm and the back of the hand. So now I'm carrying around one of those cold blocks people put in coolers, wrapped in a tea towel.

[trinker.livejournal.com]

Poor hand!

Hope it gets back to normal soon.

[micheinnz.livejournal.com]

Oooh ow! Hope you feel better soon.

gh - OW!

[mittelbar.livejournal.com]

I'm skeezy about injuring my feet for similar reasons -- they are somehow more helpless and less exposed to injury overall. It's scary when they get hurt.

Poor li'l hand.

[tsjafo.livejournal.com]

*Ouch* I hope you heal soon.

[kightp.livejournal.com]

Owwwful empathy. My left hand has had a hell of a summer - first a fingertip burn, and then a deep gash to the next finger over last weekend while I was pruning wisteria.

You're probably right and it's not broken.Lots of blood vessels in hands, and they react badly to being insulted.

[dedoc.livejournal.com]

and how's the hand today, if I may...?

(think of it as a virtual house call)

;-)

[rivka.livejournal.com]

Bruised and still a little puffy, but not painful. Spending most of yesterday afternoon and evening holding an ice pack really helped. The swelling was already visibly reduced by the time I went to bed.

Thanks for asking. :-)

[dedoc.livejournal.com]

well, umm, you know.

*smiles*

You're welcome...

[porcinea.livejournal.com]

Ow, ow, ow, ow, OW!!

Laundry hampers are *dangerous*. (That's what Mamma broke her ribs on; a laundry hamper.)

[elisem.livejournal.com]

Hand recovering wishes sent by express, along with other good wishes.