bashing up your hands

[Tash]

tell your random stories that involved damaging your hands!

i stupidly touched the oven rack when pulling it out to check out the cake i was baking the other day. so 2 of my fingers aren't actually burnt, but the skins gone a bit shiny and i expect it will start peeling soon enough.

about 3 years ago i slammed the car door on my left hand index finger and under the nail went all gross and purple and swelled up, 15 minutes before my piano lesson. so i had a bit of an issue playing with that finger- did get me out of playing for chapel though (i hadn't practiced, but my school teacher wouldn't take that as an excuse). then eventually the entire nail fell off- great way to freak out people!!

oh and back when we were doing lino printing at school i was cutting the lino out and managed to slip and jabbed the cutter into the side of my thumb and had this big deep gash in it. that was painful.

ahhh think that's all, oh was playing netball once and the ball smashed ito my pinky pulled it backwards and hurt something...

haha i'm such a klutz!

[ted]

I had a tremendous fall on hardcourt playing an interclub tennis match in my twenties and tore most of the ligaments in my left wrist. At first they thought it was a scaphoid fracture but nothing was broken. I actually went on again and won the match, even though I could serve nothing but lollipops because I could hardly pick the ball up never mind toss it in the air.

I couldn't play the piano properly for several weeks and had ganglia off and on for months but it came right eventually.

[pianonut]

i would say 'moderately well' since i don't purposely try to 'bash' them...but like you, have often burned the fingertips of my hands too (even with potholder on, because it was old and had a hole in it).  sometimes you just go with the accident and really try to take care that it will heal quickly and not be some kind of permanent damage.

the thing i am not careful enough about is twisting lids on jars.  it makes me feel weak when i cannot get a lid off.  i will run it under water, hit it with a knife to break the seal, and then twist.  usually, on some jars, the glue is so strong (it feels superglued) and i try and try without giving up and just giving it to my son or hubby.  don't know why i do this because it always messes up my wrist.

my son broke his wrist in a freak accident (basketball - fell backwards), so maybe that is why i don't try to have him open it.  i'm afraid his wrist will cause him trouble, too, but i think his healed ok and it's been 5 years since it happened. 

one year - our whole family kept going into the emergency room for various assundry problems.  i felt like screaming everytime something else happened.  my middle daughter got bit on the lip by a dog (she was around 3-4 years) and required stitches, son broke wrist, hubby broke arm, mother broke arm when she came to help me with pregnancy with last baby (she was walking my kids down the street and tripped on a bump on the sidewalk).  that was a scary year!  because of my hubby's broken arm (and rotator cuff) he couldn't wash his hair, face, tie shoes, etc.  so i treated him to shampoos, drove him to work for 2 weeks (surprised he even tried to work at the computer) he was working about 2 hours away from lancaster (to long beach).  then my mom goes and breaks the same arm (rotater cuff, too) and i take her to the SAME doctor and they get the same treatment - fixed/arm in sling.  we take a picture of them together.  now, whenever i go into the emergency room (last year my youngest was jumping on a bed and bit her tongue really hard) i realize how many more have extrememly serious injuries and just be thankful that so far, they have all healed.

[yamagal]

More careful than I used to be before we had the piano.  Now I notice little aches and pains, and try to carry my heavy baby more carefully, being mindful of my wrists.  I also get my husband to haul the diaper pail downstairs, lift heavy book boxes, and open recalcitrant jars.   

[jeremyjchilds]

I work out, rock climb and dirt bike,

[Bouter Boogie]

I think that would be "moderately well".. Not allowed to play tennis for example (but that's actually because of my wrist, not because of my hands ).. Whatever, same difference