7/2017
OK, OK. I survived the surgery. The other day I was pruning the apple trees and accidentally bumped my thumb against the pruning saw blade. Dang, but that thing is sharp. Cut right through the extensor pollicis longus tendon of my left thumb.
The doc commented that he was going to connect a few scars instead of making new ones. OK by me, since I’d potentially make more money hitchhiking (meaning a good repair of the tendon leaving a thumb that worked) than as a hand model on Sacs 5th ave (meaning less scar).
So we talked a few minutes about the numerous scars and a few other things as he was cutting my thumb open
Then he was quiet a few minutes and looked up, “You have been hard on your hands. I’m cutting more scar tissue in here than normal tissue.”
The tendon was completely severed. Tendons are elastic and shrink when not attached to something. He found the end about 3/8th of an inch up which was about 1 inch closer than he expected. The reason was that it had scarred to other tissue and was tethered from an old previous injury.
“Yeah and that’s my non-dominant hand Doc. You should see the other one.” I said.
Sincerely, your grumpy Uncle/Brother Dave, sending this via e-mail because I choose to not face, twit, linke-D, google or participate in any of the other social diseases.
Weary.