Quick update

[djm4_lj]

It appears that I probably do have some nerve damage to the nerves that supply the underside of my left thumb, but probably nowhere else. From what I was told it sounds as though this is fairly usual for someone with my sort of injury/operation, and that it's probably not all that serious in the long term. I've been told to flex my fingers on my left hand as much as I can; at the moment the outer three are pretty much fully mobile, the index finger harder and more painful to flex, and the thumb barely moveable at all. Again, there doesn't seem to be any suggestion that this is unexpected or worrying per se, but it is clearly susceptible of improvement and continuing to try to move the fingers is the best way to do this.

ETA: oh, and they changed the cast. Which means that for the first time since the accident I got to see the full gory bruised mess that is the underside of my left wrist, now (since the operation) with added lengthwise scar of several centimetres and stitching. Yowch!