Crooked Fingers (on my hand, not the band)

The metacarpals below my two middle fingers are rotated
The metacarpals below my two middle fingers are rotated

Below the two middle fingers in my left hand, my broken metacarpals are healing, but they are rotated. As you can see in the picture, they’re not pointing in the same direction as my pinky and index finger. The doctor I saw yesterday assured me that I will nonetheless have completely normal function once they’re done healing. They’ll just look a little funny. He said he could fix it with surgery, but it would require attaching a plate and 3 screws for each break…, so I decided to live with the crooked fingers. I keep finding myself trying to push them back where they should be anyway - straighten up you fingers! But it doesn’t seem to make a difference - they just go right back to doing their own thing ;-)
I had a heck of a time even getting the appointment. I was given two bad referrals in a row (one to a doctor who’s no longer in the area, and another who no longer does hand work). I finally just took care of it myself, and then had to make a few calls back to my primary care doctor to get a retroactive referral. Now I have to go to a 3rd place for x-rays, because my insurance won’t cover x-rays done at my hand doctor’s hospital. Of course, the way things are these days, I’m lucky to have insurance at all, even if it’s ridiculously over-bureaucratized.

One Response to “Crooked Fingers (on my hand, not the band)”

  1. Pat W Says:

    Best wishes on a quick recovery. I broke my left index and middle fingers in 5th grade. I remember it being quite painful.

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