Thaat's What I get for Living a Healthy Lifestyle

Living a healthy lifestyle can be dangerous. Thank heavens for GREAT neighbors (thank you Dave and Sharon Pavey ) for taking me to the hospital and picking me up agsin when it was over. Even worse, and yes, there is worse, no swimming for a week, going to hve to settle for using the recumbent bike and doing leg strength exercises st the gym for s bit. Sorry, my pinky isn't working right yet, so the a key isn't alwsys pressed. 

Lost my bslance and grabbed the fence -- top hsa metsl spikes sticking up, caught on it, and still fell, ripping the palm wide open down to the bone. Luckily, missed tendons asnd the srtery by millimeters. So, ll in asll could have been worse. 




Funny thing, when it hsppened i didn't even really feel it. just concerned with getting bsck up agsin, wasn't until i sat down i realized i needed stitches. now it hurts though. lol 

Sorry for ll the typos 








Update:

A week and a half ago I sliced open my hand on a fence and got stitches. I was told I couldn't go in the pool until the stitches came out---yeah, I cried. That poor doctor didn't have a clue, although as I explained how hard I'd been working and what a big part of my routine was swimming, he did take pity on my situation. He even ended up saying as long as I don't get my hand wet, he wouldn't tell anybody. However, once I got home, I decided that it would be better safe than sorry, and I would do as much as I could of other things during this time of healing and pool restriction. In some ways it has been quite liberating. I found that I could indeed now ride a stationary bike for as much as an hour total (broken into three sections with a minute rest between each). Last night went and rode the bike when hubby got off work and could drive me... but it was just so painful, I only managed 45 minutes, my rear and my knees had taken all they could of it over the past 10 days. It will be GREAT as an alternating routine so I am not in a rut of only swimming, but I'm not up to it as a singular activity. 

So.... even though I am supposed to go to get the stitches out tomorrow, today was my regular gym day, and I just decided to go for it. I wrapped my hand up in waterproof surgical tape (over the bandage), and put my suit on. I did keep my hand out of the water (almost as much of a workout as running the pool). I just jogged the laps instead of swimming. What a workout, but soooo enjoyable. I sure did miss that pool. 

Like I said above, I am supposed to go to the doctor tomorrow, but I don't think the stitches will come out, not all of them anyway. The middle and left "branch" of the laceration look like they have healed well, and the stitches will probably come out of that, but the right branch and the center where it all comes together are still really groady looking. LOL But, at least I know that the surgical tape works well to keep any random splashes from getting the bandage wet, and I can run the pool for a good workout. I'll still do the bike as an alternate now that I know I can, just not as a sole form of workout. You just gotta do what ya gotta do sometimes. :) 

Update #2:

Got my stitches out yesterday. A little bummed that the one area that i mentioned the other day is still opened too much to go swimming (technically, lol), but I'll just do what I did the other day. On the plus side, this doctor wrapped my hand up much better than the emergency room one did, and showed me how to do it that way, to keep the area closed more. I changed the bandage today and it really has made a lot of improvement. As they say--Patience is a virtue... too bad it's not one of mine. LOL I've never been particularly patient, but I am trying to improve on that.