{"id":26889,"date":"2020-10-05T10:56:26","date_gmt":"2020-10-05T15:56:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=26889"},"modified":"2020-10-05T10:56:26","modified_gmt":"2020-10-05T15:56:26","slug":"difficult-things-to-do-with-a-splinted-pinky","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2020\/10\/05\/difficult-things-to-do-with-a-splinted-pinky\/","title":{"rendered":"Difficult Things To Do With A Splinted Pinky"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I mentioned I have a bit of a <a href=\"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2020\/10\/01\/my-new-least-favorite-pull-my-finger-game\/\" target=\"_new\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">sports injury<\/a> that has the smallest finger on my left hand in a splint.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/bsgfx\/splint.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p>Over the course of the last four days, I have learned a number of things are difficult in this condition.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Hit the Q key.<\/strong>  I am not a touch typist, gentle reader, so I can still hit the A key as needed.  But the left pinky apparently handled the Q key (and sometimes often the SHIFT, CTRL, and ALT keys over there).  So, of course, I find myself queuing up lots of quintessential quokkas and whatnot now, which slows me down a lot.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Laundry.<\/strong>  I am constantly banging the splint into the basket, the side of the washer tub, or the top of the appliances as I shift the laundry.  I hadn&#8217;t realized I brushed my hand against all these things routinely, but apparently so.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Buckling the seat belt when a passenger in a car.<\/strong>  I&#8217;ve ridden as a passenger a couple of times, and I&#8217;ve had to reach across my body to click it as the big splint does not fit in between the seats so well.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Close the driver&#8217;s side car door.<\/strong>  The contraption does not fit into the grip, so I have to reach across my body to close it.  Also, I guess I am used to hitting the window open button with that finger, too.  And although I can more easily buckle the belt with my right hand whilst sitting in the driver&#8217;s seat, grabbing the belt buckle when it is beside the seat to the left is also a chore.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Picking up cats one-handed<\/strong> when they (and by <em>they<\/em>, I mean <em>Chimera<\/em>) gets into my office chair when I go for a cup of coffee.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Not depicted: <em>catching a football<\/em>, because if that were easy for me, I would not be in this predicament.<\/p>\n<p>You know, this is not my first sports injury.  And all of my injuries tend to be sports injuries, come to think of it.  I have always eventually bounced back, but I get a little down while I mend.  I mean, this one is not very painful and is only a little inconvenient, but it reminds me that I&#8217;m aging, an intimation of mortality that goes meshes well with my mindset in the current <a href=\"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?s=dying+time\" target=\"_new\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">dying time<\/a>.  It&#8217;s certainly nowhere near what Jack Baruth just suffered&#8211;a <a href=\"https:\/\/jackbaruth.com\/?p=19638\" target=\"_new\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">broken leg<\/a>&#8211;but the thoughts are very similar.  They tell me I will more easily dislocate these joints in the future&#8211;so how many jabs can I throw in martial arts classes before I do it again?  That sort of thing.<\/p>\n<p>Ah, well, the one thing it is not hard to do, and I feared it might: to hold a book to read it.  I can set big art books so that they&#8217;re resting on my lap and I&#8217;m just holding them up with my hand and few working fingers, and I can hold smaller books with a hand and those smaller fingers.  So I can still do that, fortunately.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I mentioned I have a bit of a sports injury that has the smallest finger on my left hand in a splint. Over the course of the last four days, I have learned a number of things are difficult in this condition. Hit the Q key. I am not a touch typist, gentle reader, so [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3334,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26889","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26889","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3334"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26889"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26889\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26891,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26889\/revisions\/26891"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26889"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26889"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26889"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}