05-15-2006, 01:03 AM
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#1 | | Senior Member
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| Messed up finger, nationals in a few days. What to do?
Hey,
Yesterday someone slammed a seriously heavy door on my right index finger (right handed). Nationals for me start on Friday. What can I do other than keep it elevated and ice? It is not broken, moderate swelling, by now I can bend it fine without pain but only about 1/2 way, it is still swolen and very stiff.
Think it will be OK by Friday? Should I be moving it around a lot or keeping it in a splint?
Baaaaaaaaaaad timing... I'm worried! | 
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05-15-2006, 01:19 AM
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#2 | | Senior Member
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Originally Posted by dramamine Think it will be OK by Friday? Should I be moving it around a lot or keeping it in a splint?
Baaaaaaaaaaad timing... I'm worried! | If it isn't, you can always fence left handed. | |
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05-15-2006, 01:35 AM
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Originally Posted by dramamine Hey,
Yesterday someone slammed a seriously heavy door on my right index finger (right handed). Nationals for me start on Friday. What can I do other than keep it elevated and ice? It is not broken, moderate swelling, by now I can bend it fine without pain but only about 1/2 way, it is still swolen and very stiff.
Think it will be OK by Friday? Should I be moving it around a lot or keeping it in a splint?
Baaaaaaaaaaad timing... I'm worried! | I slammed my finger in a big, 200 lb. prison-grade door at a detention facility several months ago. It hurt. A lot. The nurse looked at it and just gave me an ice pack. The swelling was down a good bit in a few days, and it did not affect my fencing at all. If you are sure that it's not broken, a splint might not do much good. Ice and elevation should help. Then again, I'm not a doctor. Getting some medical advice wouldn't hurt.
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05-15-2006, 02:56 AM
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#4 | | Curmudgeon-in-Chief
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| That ought to teach you not to try to escape. 
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05-15-2006, 07:36 AM
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Originally Posted by Inquartata That ought to teach you not to try to escape. | I was just sitting here waiting to see who would make the first snide comment. Should have guessed it would be you. 
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05-15-2006, 08:18 AM
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#6 | | Curmudgeon-in-Chief
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| Well, duh. 
Oiuyt is a busy man, after all.
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05-15-2006, 09:22 AM
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| Stop using the keyboard! (I know my daughter had a pretty bad sprain a couple of months ago before a big meet...Her foot was incredibly swollen -- it still is -- and she was limping all the way to en guarde....I think you won't know until you get there! Ice helped her....Good Luck!) | |
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05-15-2006, 01:38 PM
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#8 | | Have Blazer, Will Travel
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| She types with her toes? | |
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05-15-2006, 02:48 PM
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| I meant dramamine should stop posting on fencing.net and give HIS finger a rest. (The rest of the posting was parenthetical because it referred to a different situation...) | |
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05-15-2006, 03:57 PM
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#10 | | Have Blazer, Will Travel
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| Actually, I consider the rest of the posting to be parenthetical because it was enclosed in parentheses, but I'm a literallist in some matters. | |
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