Thumb, the Final Chapter!

[goldendesign]

It finally fell off! I kinda have a somewhat normal looking thumb!

A wild few months. If my other thumb was an exact duplicate of the damaged thumb then I have lost 15mm off the top and my nailbed has shifted down 5mm. All things considered this was probably the best outcome I could ask for from a crash as hard as it was.

A series of progression shots:

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[MoseySusan]

Amazing. 
Weird question, but are you grieving the lost normalcy, the regular thumb that’s gone?

[Razors Edge ★]

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[jsharr ★]

Has feeling returned to normal?  I had severe damage to my left pointer as a young child.  Shorter, nail is a bit deformed and I have very little feeling in that finger tip.

[goldendesign]

32 minutes ago, MoseySusan said:

Weird question, but are you grieving the lost normalcy, the regular thumb that’s gone?

During the healing period I essentially adopted a chopstick approach to using my left hand for fine control of objects. Less than ideal for sure, then if I forgot and did something somewhat normal I'd be reminded by the pain of trying to use it. It is still sensitive in the nailbed area and the extreme tip so I haven't been able to really see how much normalcy can return. 

I think since it's been almost 4 months of healing I've adapted enough I'll probably not realize what is or isn't normal.

29 minutes ago, jsharr said:

Has feeling returned to normal? 

For the most part I believe so. I'm fully sensate across the whole tip. The human body is an amazing thing, I lost the better part of the thumb down to almost the knuckle, they removed a half inch of bone and yet about 50% of material they reattached, mangled material from the crash, managed to reattach by itself. I mean they sewed my nail back on. The nail grew back. Crazy.

[donkpow]

That's what mine looks like. I lost the end in a table saw incident. Occupational therapy helped with learning to use the new thumb. I had to tuck it out of the cold weather for quite a while and I don't want to talk about bumping it into things.

[goldendesign]

48 minutes ago, donkpow said:

I don't want to talk about bumping it into things.

Oh, is it gonna be this sensitive even after it heals up the rest of the way? Cause right now if I hit the sink bowl while washing the hand I cringe. 

[donkpow]

35 minutes ago, goldendesign said:

Oh, is it gonna be this sensitive even after it heals up the rest of the way? Cause right now if I hit the sink bowl while washing the hand I cringe. 

IDK, do you also fall to your knees and condemn the whole world to damnation?

[Ralphie ★]

3 hours ago, Razors Edge said:

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