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altarflame ([personal profile] altarflame) wrote2010-01-10 02:22 pm

This is going to be short as I'm dictating to Grant

A couple of days ago I started getting this nasty infection by my fingernail - just like a hard swollen red spot that I hoped would go away. But instead it got worse, like bigger and more painful until yesterday I started seeing a red line going down my finger and ever on to my hand from it. SO we went to the stupid hospital to get it looked at and basically I ended up having hand surgery. Well, that is the respectable version. Really it was more like "fingertip surgery". Anyways, the point is I am now working with a full finger cast on one hand and oxycodone.

More later.

So exciting, I know.

[identity profile] altarflame.livejournal.com 2010-01-11 08:33 am (UTC)(link)
I've had it before, too. At least twice. And Grant as well. Little hard red places that go away or can even be popped. This was a really extreme case, though - I mean my entire last knuckle-up was ENORMOUS and purple, and the area around the nail was yellow, and it was THROBBING...and shiny...for 3 days...and then mainly I went in because of the red line traveling rapidly up my finger and over my hand to the bottom of my arm, which is the main thing that I think was "serious" about it.

[identity profile] babyslime.livejournal.com 2010-01-11 08:35 am (UTC)(link)
Yeah the worst case I ever had was like that, but it was in my toenail. It was HORRIBLE.

[identity profile] altarflame.livejournal.com 2010-01-11 09:27 am (UTC)(link)
I can just imagine the agony of walking - I was totally avoiding using my finger. I think I'd have been limp-hopping around my house.

[identity profile] mommydama.livejournal.com 2010-01-12 01:14 am (UTC)(link)
I've chewed my nails on and off for my entire life that I can remember and I do not think I've ever had this.