Day 6

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AM spent at hand specialist. great success. against the odds, he was able to "reduce" (ie. put back together) my fractured metacarpal. the fourth metacarpal is the long bone in your hand behind your ring finger. mine was broke in two, the broken ends jutting up at 45 degree angles. it looked like the bones in my hand were "pitching a tent." the doc got the bone ends to join each other in a straight line like they used to. so they gave me a local anesthetic and hung my arm by the tip of my ring finger to stretch the bones apart. after 20 minutes of this, the tech put my bone back together through clamping my palm. this was painful, more painful than the incident itself. if the bone does not slip apart in 10 days, then it will heal without surgery. if it pops apart, then i get a permanent steel plate in my hand. this would probably disqualify me from competition in ultimate fighting, which is a great setback.

man i love going to all these clinics with my arm in a sling. when i went to st. david's to get my x-rays, all the women working there were pretty enough to work as TV hospital staff. i love them.