Non riding related injury; severed flexortendon in left hand

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Non riding related injury; severed flexortendon in left hand

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So my dumb inebriated self on new years eve accidentally mishandled a kitchen knife while separating a couple frozen beef patties. Luckily it IS the off-season and we have a local hand specialist / plastic surgeon. The flexor tendon in my left index finger was severed so I was unable to bend it

Doc expected it to make a full recovery within a couple months. Will need physio. Youtube "flexor tendon repair" if you can stomach that sorta thing.. :cool:

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Also hydromorphone is pretty great
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DAMN! Heal up soon!! Spend time reading about KDX's to keep involved. :partyman:
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Happened to be the first thing on my list! :yawinkle:
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Every so often I manage to cut myself in a bad way using knives, mebbe we should keep away from sharp objects :mrgreen: . It's great that you're gonna heal tho'!
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Yeah. We now give you your prescription:

1 month: Stay away from anything sharper than a basketball. :busted:
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Dang, sorry to hear that. Hope you heal up soon! I managed to just nick the tendon going to my thumb years back, and it still gives me grief.
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hope you heal up soon buddy

oh and for future reference, this is why we leave the cooking to the women :roll:
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Thanks all. Hopefully it's back to normal before the start of next riding season, that i'm not worried about. Maybe not having a guitar fingering hand that works has been a pretty scary thought. It's also totally numb on the inside of the finger from above the cut, cause I also severed the radial nerve...good grief. That is supposed to regenerate to some degree
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Your new name is now Doctor Octopus

Ironically you look like the character from the spiderman movie.

Heal up well and take care.
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Alfred Molina? Cool I guess :lol:
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Damn man.
Heal up well.
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You kinda look like one of the 2 brothers on Slap Shot with Paul Newman.
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