Ouch!

Okay, this has not been my favorite weekend. 

Saturday, I was trying on my winter clothes, to see if I got too fat for any of them and need new things before going to Lake Tahoe next weekend.

Somehow, in the middle of pulling off a pair of long underwear that I guess shrank over the summer (because I did NOT get fatter, dammit), I got my middle finger caught in my clothes and twisted it.  No major pain, but it was totally bent out of place and wouldn't straighten out on its own. 

I was freaking out.  While it didn't hurt, I decided to go to the hospital and get it x-rayed and all.  I did not have time to be sitting in an ER waiting room all day, but I'm glad I went. 

Well, how lame... I have something called "mallet finger," whereby the tendon on the back of the finger that's responsible for keeping the finger straight was ripped away from the bone at the end of my finger.  Fun times.

Help! My finger has fallen and I can't get it up!

I have to keep my finger in a splint so that it is extended for the next 4-6 weeks.  And here's the part that sucks:  let's say you take the spint off for literally a second, and you allow your finger to bend for literally a second, you start the 4-6 weeks for the treatmeant over again.

I can say already that typing sucks.  Not the best thing when you have a job for a technology company. But no pain and I can manage. 

I'll learn in the next 3 days (when I meet with my doctor) if I'll be okay to snowboard with my splint.  I really hope so, but I just want this to get better as fast as I can.