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6:34pm May 24, 2013

➸ Urocyon's Jaunts: The "small stuff"

clatterbane:

youneedacat:

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.


Ouch. :( That sounds really unpleasant, with the medical response there besides the permanently messed-up knuckle. I’m guessing you didn’t get it looked at until later, once it had calcified in the wrong position? (I might not either, to be honest.) Sorry it’s continuing to hurt. :/

This only came part of the way out, and went right back in. I’ve avoided it so far because that’s a PITA, but Ingvar is probably right about taping it to the next finger for a couple of days to immobilize it. My mom, who wasn’t as bendy, got freaked out and dragged me to the ER a few times when my fingers did weird things like this as a kid, and that’s what they always did. Maybe a splint, too, but I’m not doing that. I doubt this was anything like as painful as yours that wouldn’t go back in, but feliscorvis is definitely has a point about the concentration of nerve endings making even minor hand injuries hurt a lot. Shame about the recent experience with that. :(

Yeah, I hadn’t seen this basic type of small elevator in the US, but they aren’t that unusual here. They do make a lot of sense as an add-on. And, looking into it out of curiosity, apparently the “autodialler” is an optional extra on a lot of them. The only thing I’d seen the “hold the button” arrangement on were some industrial-type hydraulic platform lifts. The controls on the one in that store today were a bit different, but here’s a similar panel:

I didn’t get it looked at because….

I screamed when it happened. And a staff person was in the room and gave me so much shit for screaming (which she saw as meaningless bad behavior, because autistic people do that, supposedly) that I didn’t tell anyone anything was wrong. It swelled up and got really painful for a couple weeks and after that it was a lost cause. And it was much longer, years, before anyone looked at it.

Plus at that time I was still so doctor phobic that I seriously considered suicide as an alternative every time I had an appointment. So making new appointments wasn’t my thing.