bigevilempire

I know I haven't been updating this blog recently but I have a valid excuse for it! Well, apparently I did break my pinkie when I had that fall off my bike a month ago. I thought it was a bad sprain and I applied the general rule of "if it is broken, it will hurt like a bitch if you try to bend it". It sure did not hurt that bad when i try to bend it.

After leaving it alone for 3 weeks, the swelling did not go down and it was not healing well. The pinkie looked just a tinny winny deformed like the top joint was perpetually in a hook. On the lighter side of things, it does aid typing quite a bit especially tapping on the enter key.

By the fourth week and a few days of waiting and emailing my assigned personal physician at Kaiser Permanente, I finally managed to make an appointment. I was riding my bike to the hospital along Geary Street when I saw that upslope. No way I can survive that! So I locked my bike at the sidewalk (otherwise known as the pavement) and hailed for a cab. LOL.

Hospitals are the same no matter what country you are in — there is always a lot of waiting involved, on the patients' part of course. I met my personal physician who arranged for my x-ray taken and then referred to a specialist.

The diagnosis is an affirmation that I have indeed broken my pinkie. The bad news is that I waited too long for doctors to take a look and it is too late to do anything effective. The good news is there is I still have my finger and there will probably be a superficial deformity.

The pinkie was placed in a splinter and I am to be back for a review after 3 weeks.

Bad fall indeed.

The price I pay for this fall serves as a reminder in more ways than I would like to admit.