To keep a short story short, yesterday, I slipped on our stairs while taking out the garbage. Sequoia Hospital’s Emergency Department Patient Discharge papers say that I have minor hand and elbow injuries, including a broken metacarpal. I had the garbage bag strap wrapped around my hand, and it tried to remove the skin from the back of my hand. The stairs did a pretty good job of removing skin from my elbow.
When I got to the hospital, the hospital x-rayed my hand and elbow, cleaned up the blood – on my hand and elbow only, Michele got the blood out of my jeans and sweater – glued the skin flap back down, put a splint on me, patted me on the popo, and sent me home.
Tomorrow, I am going to the hand specialist, and I expect to have an interesting scar.
Michele provided the documentation and reminded me five times to warn you, dear reader, not to scroll down if gore makes you uncomfortable.
So sorry that you hurt yourself. I hope that the doctors do what ever is required for a full recovery
She was right about that warning but oh, man, we gotta be more and more careful about falling at our age! Sorry to see it, glad it’s not worse. Looks like a big hurt though…
Those are some brutal stairs…good for staying in shape but treacherous!
I used to race Samantha up and down the stairs, now they seem much higher.
Sorry to hear of your misfortune Steve. Hope you and your hand recover quickly. Love to you both xx Nicole
Thanks, Nicole. See you in June?
Well, I knew you had fallen and cut your hand (Michele filled us in).
But that looks pretty nasty. Hoping for quick healing.
Thanks, Karen. How are you doing?
Looks pretty gnarly Steve. Hope you’re back to normal pronto!
It looks much better now. BTW, how did Jules’ show go?