Bah

[digitaldiscipline]

May have broken my fucking hand. Off to "urgent care." Bringing a book. This is not how I wanted to spend my afternoon.

ETA: How - drill bit caught in wood and locked, drill spun before I could let go, and something went "pop" in the metacarpal region of the pinkie/ring finger side of my hand. Minimal swelling, more or less full ROM, but it hurts, and I can feel something shift around when I open/close/squeeze.

Hoping it's a splint fix, not a cast. Of course, it's my right hand - you know, the one I use to write, mouse, and shift. *argh*

I guess I'll have to do nothing but cardio again if I get my paw bound up.

Comments

[smjayman.livejournal.com]

Friggin' power tools, great until they decide not to be. :(

[etcet.livejournal.com]

oh, it remained powerful... which was the problem :-)

[vatine]

You know, I am suddenly SO happy about the adjustable slip thing on my cordless hand-drill. Set it to an arbitrary number (I have no idea what unit they're supposed to be in, so "number") between 1 and 20-or-so and the lower the number, the less force is needed to make the chuck slip (internally).

I've mostly used it (at a suitably low setting) when using it as a screwdriver, but since I seldom forget to dial it back up, it tends to hover somewhere in the 2-3 region.