Finally Pages of my Finger

I finally had time to do a few pages of my finger.  Here is the journal writing:

On Tuesday, September 2 I was at flag football practice and we were doing a flag pulling drill.  I went to grab a flag and my finger got caught in a teammates shorts.  He pulled one way and I pulled the other.  My finger at the top joint went with him, but the rest of my finger went with me.  I immediately fell to the ground and grabbed my finger and pushed it back (not a pleasant feeling), but I knew I had to do that because if I saw my finger I was going to pass out.  My coach and teammates decided it was probably just a jam so I continued practicing.  I am playing with mostly undergraduate students who are nine almost ten years younger than me, so I couldn't be the old wimpy lady and kept practicing.  In only a few minutes my finger was too swollen to move, so I stayed on the field but didn't catch or pull any more flags.  I got home that night at around 9:30 and immediately iced it. 

The next morning my finger was huge and blue so I decided to go to the doctor.  I went to urgent care and the x-rays showed my finger was broken in a few places.  They made me an appointment for Thursday with an orthopedic doctor.  The doctor gave me 2 choices: have surgery or never be able to bend your finger again.  Of course I opted with the surgery.  On Friday I went for a CT scan and on Monday morning I was in for surgery.

 At the top joint of my middle finger the bone was broken and the pieces had moved.  So the result of surgery was five pins in my finger.  The pins are sticking out of my finger, but it is bandaged so couldn't see them.  Surgery went fine, but that night and the next day were awful.  I never knew a finger could hurt so badly.  At the beginning of October I went to the doctor for post-op.  And lucky me I got to see the pins for the first time, yuck.  The doctor said the finger seemed to be healing fine and I would get the pins out on Thursday, October 16, in two weeks.  I did start physical therapy on the middle joint and am supposed to go 2-3 times per week for five weeks.