Archive for March 2nd, 2009
Last night I was playing some pretty solid defense in the outfield. And since it was the last game of the season, I asked to play an inning at shortstop. Well, ladies and gentlemen, God doesn’t want me to play shortstop. Ever.
It was a funky play. Nothing cool about it. I was basically taking a relay throw back from the outfield. The throw bounced just short of me and came up and drilled me in the right middle finger. I picked up the ball, threw it back in, and then looked at my hand where I found blood everywhere (my friends told me there was a trail of blood leading to the bathroom).
I thought the extent of the injury was that the nail on my finger got pushed up by the ball. So at worst, I figured, I would just be losing the nail. But the wound never stopped bleeding. So I went to the doctor this morning and the found that the reason the nail on the finger was being pushed up was that a bone in my finger broke and was forcing the nail up. Sucks, don’t it?
Here’s one of the x-rays in case any of you know how to read one.
Anyway, I have an appointment tomorrow with a hand surgeon. I’m hoping surgery can be avoided, but I just don’t know. If they have to cut my finger open, then I can kiss my dreams of being a hand model good-bye. 
***UPDATE***
Surgery was successful. Typing will be difficult, though. I wish I had some voice recognition software for this. But anyway, my finger is numb and I have some vicodin waiting on stand-by.
