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06-23-2019, 10:02 AM
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Thumb Tip Amputation Due to IPad...
This is my thumb... Earlier this year I took the screen protector off our broken iPad screen, it had no shards of glass...so I thought and so stupidly (as fuck) I swiped my right thumb across the screen to unlock it. While doing so I got a grain of glass the size of sand, stuck in my thumb. It didn’t bleed or anything.... Anyways to keep it short and get to the good stuff...lol...I ended up getting a Strep A infection, then gangrene, three surgeries amputating more and more of the tip of my thumb each time. Then I ended up with osteomyelitis and had the bone turn to mush (because the fucking dr wouldn’t listen to me when I said how much it felt like bone hurt, during my first debridement. Because I wasn’t crying and on the floor in pain...like other people with it would be... so for a month I had it but it went untreated)...so the bone down to the DIP joint was amputated.  ·  ·  ·  ·  ·  ·  ·  ·  ·  ·  ·  ·  ·  ·  ·  ·  ·  ·  ·  ·  ·  ·  ·  ·  ·  ·  ·  ·  ·  ·  · |
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06-23-2019, 10:07 AM
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| My Rank: LANCE CORPORAL Poster Rank:3103 Female Join Date: Nov 2013 Posts: 124 124Posts 498Thanked 65Quoted 2Mentioned 0Contrib. |
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Re: Thumb Tip Amputation Due to IPad...
Well that didn’t go as planned...the pics were in order. Sorry guys...I suck..I blame my thumb and now horrible typing skills? Anyways, I forgot add that the pics are over 3 months. And now that it’s healed, finally...I have permanent bone, nerve and tendon damage due to the injury but also being on heavy duty antibiotics via a PIC line for three months.  |
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06-23-2019, 10:32 AM
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 ✝Mudderator from Hell✝ Poster Rank:10 e-mail Join Date: Oct 2006 Posts: 96,658
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Re: Thumb Tip Amputation Due to IPad...
Always those damn infections making things much worse and taking longer to heal  |
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06-23-2019, 10:33 AM
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 The Devil's Left Hand Poster Rank:70 Male Join Date: May 2012 Posts: 22,202 22,202Posts 43,089Thanked 9,551Quoted 21Mentioned 0Contrib. |
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Re: Thumb Tip Amputation Due to IPad...
All that because of a tiny piece of glass?  |
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06-23-2019, 10:45 AM
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| My Rank: LANCE CORPORAL Poster Rank:3103 Female Join Date: Nov 2013 Posts: 124 124Posts 498Thanked 65Quoted 2Mentioned 0Contrib. |
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Re: Thumb Tip Amputation Due to IPad...
Yep. I wish I had taken a pic of my thumb right after. It didn’t bleed, there was no visible wound, nada. It split open (the pic of the clean nice cut) right before I went to bed that night. The blackened cut, is now it looked the next morning. Should have explained it better. Sorry! |
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06-23-2019, 09:44 PM
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Re: Thumb Tip Amputation Due to IPad...
Good job of documenting this horrible event you went through. Hope you're doing better. And got a new tablet?
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06-24-2019, 12:47 AM
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Re: Thumb Tip Amputation Due to IPad...
Well I’m an artist and right handed. I have to wear a brace on my elbow and thumb...and take nerve blocking pain meds, and will need more surgery....but yes I have. Don’t have a choice. Lol
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06-24-2019, 01:16 PM
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| My Rank: PRIVATE Poster Rank:6321 Female Join Date: Dec 2009 Posts: 35 35Posts 89Thanked 25Quoted 0Mentioned 0Contrib. |
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Re: Thumb Tip Amputation Due to IPad...
Wow! Was it painful? Did it smell? How does it look now? Hope you're on the mend!  :xyxth umbs: |
