Stop in for a cup of coffee
How you doing, we missed ya!
I'm hanging in there...
finally saw a specialist a week and a half ago and got a permanent cast on it... Another appt this Thur and he may take the cast off and use a splint - hoping for the best...
My fingers were getting too stiff with the first splint my being too immobile, my cast now only goes to the first knuckle in the two fingers by the thumb, with the last two fingers and thumb free... I need to keep them moving so they don't loose ane range of motion... I can't completely straighten my fingers all the way, but can get them mostly straight - maybe 10% more to go...
Doctor says he can fix it if the bones aren't aligned, but can't fix any lost mobility, so keeping the fingers moving to keep my range of motion is most important right now. So I try to flex them as straight as I can, then try to close them as far as I can to stretch them out and try to get some of the lost movement back... Sometimes I get a really tight feeling that hurts when I do that, but I'm trying to push myself to minimize any loss in movement...
If they get too stiff, sorta like "living rigormortis", it may be permanent... :BangHead: