Re: Finger amputation and reattachment

Ray Pearson wrote:
> "JSin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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> > > Well if you are intent on it let me explain what I went through. I cut
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> > through all but a flap of my index finger on my right hand with a trim
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> saw.
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> >
> 6 months of physical therapy followed that
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> > some of which was the most painful experiances I can describe. You see
> > when they reattach all the tendons are short so they have to
> > systematically re streach them. This hurts none too little.
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> Jason, It will get better, when I was about 12 I put my hand through a
> window and nearly cut my thumb off. The main shard went through the lowest
> thumb joint ( down in the meat of the hand) like popping a chicken wing
> joint. they had to dig the tendon up from my wrist to re-attach . the
> stretch of the scar and the tendon was a thrill. . I still can't open that
> hand up like the left. And I can tell when it's going to rain<G>

Yeah year by year it improves. But it is because I still work it daily 
and continue to stretch it using coban wraps. Living here in the NW it 
is kinda weird I have an easier time telling when it is *not* going to 
rain. <G>
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