...but it's broken, it hurts, and it is seriously impeding my knitting. On Thursday, August 13, I got my left pinky caught between the car door and the dashboard when I was pressing a button to close the back passenger door. I managed to get Maeve to camp and get back home to wrap the pinky in a bandaid 'cuz that's what I'd do with a toe, and I thought there was no way it was really broken. Later that evening, when David took a look at it, it was all sorts of gorgeous shades of purple. Since we were heading out for vacation a couple of days later, I decided to actually see a doctor.
The doctor got a kick out of me sitting in his office knitting with my busted pinky. BTW, all he had to do was look at my rainbow colored digit to guess that it was not all in one piece. I tried to convince him that I didn't really need an x-ray, that I trusted his judgment, and so I begged him to just splint me. He was very responsible, and immune to my pleas, and made me go all the way across the hall to get a picture of my bones. As expected, I had broken my finger. It was a clean break, though, so I got the splint and some pain killers and went off to the store.
The only bones that I have broken in the past were toes. These are very painful to break and make walking really uncomfortable for a while, but for a knitter, they don't cause any major problems. Broken fingers, on the other hand (oh, really no pun intended), are really painful to break, make most things done with that hand painful, and for a knitter cause major aggro. I can knit only two rows of 39 stitches before needing to take a break. The splint gets in the way, and I can't really hold the needle with my other fingers comfortably. Not being able to knit with comfort and ease is making cranky. Really cranky. I'm getting on my kids' cases with little justification other than the fact that I am just generally pissy! I do admit when I have flown off the handle for no good reason, and I do apologize, but it doesn't really make it better.
I also can't get ready for for the Harry Potter Knit and Crochet Housecup Challenge on Ravelry. I had a couple of projects I was going to finish while on vacation, and now I can't. My WIPs and UFOs are causing a bothersome nagging feeling at the back of my head. Like little woolly flies buzzing around. I did bring some projects that I can work on here. I figured that if I started something with the splint on, and finished before I had to take it off, I wouldn't have to worry about changes in gauge.
I'm done now. Not because I have run out of things to say. Quite the opposite. I have several other things I wanted to talk about, unrelated to the inconvenient appendage. However, holding the smallest finger on my left hand high in the air while it is holding up the added weight of the metal and foam in which it is encased, has tired it out enough that I have to call it a day.
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