Happy New Year!
Jan. 1st, 2024 07:09 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
swan_towerI wish you all a happy New Year, with all ten of my fingers!
. . . that's not as much of a non sequitur as it sounds like.
Late last October, I jammed the index finger of my right hand really really hard. Since the joints of that finger already hyperextend rather significantly, I did a serious number on myself -- enough so that, after a week or two in which it didn't seem to be getting better (and may in fact have been made worse, since I kept catching it on things and hurting it every time), I decided to splint it and give it some time to recover. After two weeks or so of it obstinately refusing to do so, I went to the orthopedist; one MRI later, I was officially diagnosed as being one degree of injury short of needing surgery to fix it. The doctor told me to leave it splinted through the end of the year, and so, shortly after midnight, I let my finger out of jail for the first significant amount of time since early November.
I've been able to type during that period -- the first question I've gotten from basically every writer who's seen me in person since then -- but not well; I've been very prone to typos and also winding up in wrist contortions that aren't the best idea, ergonomically speaking. After a mid-December week of crunch time that required me to type quite a lot, I finally set up an auto-responder on my work email telling people not to expect to hear from me until the New Year unless it was urgent. So now I get to dig my way out from under that pile, while simultaneously being careful about not overdoing it. Right now my range of motion in those joints is laughably small, and my first order of business is to gently re-learn how to make a fist. I want that milestone now, but I know better than to lunge for it too fast.
But: I get to at least start on making progress. And that, in its own way, is a good start to 2024. May this year bring us all better things than its predecessor did.
(originally posted at Swan Tower: https://www.swantower.com/2024/01/01/happy-new-year-2/)
. . . that's not as much of a non sequitur as it sounds like.
Late last October, I jammed the index finger of my right hand really really hard. Since the joints of that finger already hyperextend rather significantly, I did a serious number on myself -- enough so that, after a week or two in which it didn't seem to be getting better (and may in fact have been made worse, since I kept catching it on things and hurting it every time), I decided to splint it and give it some time to recover. After two weeks or so of it obstinately refusing to do so, I went to the orthopedist; one MRI later, I was officially diagnosed as being one degree of injury short of needing surgery to fix it. The doctor told me to leave it splinted through the end of the year, and so, shortly after midnight, I let my finger out of jail for the first significant amount of time since early November.
I've been able to type during that period -- the first question I've gotten from basically every writer who's seen me in person since then -- but not well; I've been very prone to typos and also winding up in wrist contortions that aren't the best idea, ergonomically speaking. After a mid-December week of crunch time that required me to type quite a lot, I finally set up an auto-responder on my work email telling people not to expect to hear from me until the New Year unless it was urgent. So now I get to dig my way out from under that pile, while simultaneously being careful about not overdoing it. Right now my range of motion in those joints is laughably small, and my first order of business is to gently re-learn how to make a fist. I want that milestone now, but I know better than to lunge for it too fast.
But: I get to at least start on making progress. And that, in its own way, is a good start to 2024. May this year bring us all better things than its predecessor did.
(originally posted at Swan Tower: https://www.swantower.com/2024/01/01/happy-new-year-2/)
