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2:40pm May 24, 2013

➸ Urocyon's Jaunts: The "small stuff"

feliscorvus:

clatterbane:

I was reminded again just a little while ago, of how a lot of people who aren’t disabled in some way just don’t get how the “small stuff” can make such a huge difference to us. And why we just keep “overreacting”.

Even though I was already having a pretty bad pain and allergy day (yay maple and…

Gaaah! Fingers popping out of place sounds horribly painful. Despite the fact that finger and hand injuries don’t tend to be life-threatening, they DO tend to be some of the most painful and difficult-to-manage. There are tons of nerves in the hands. And, just, wow, I have never even heard of an elevator/lift requiring constant button mashing…I wonder if that’s a UK thing?

It is painful. And if you can’t get them back in joint, they can stick in weird positions. That’s what happened to one of my fingers. I call it my nerd injury because I was reaching calmly for a book and that’s all it took for my knuckle to get completely fouled up forever. And I do mean forever. It’s still bent wrong, it still hurts, almost a decade later. And the only hand doctor I ever saw wasn’t even interested in figuring out what was wrong, because surgery couldn’t fix it.