Rick's Boo Boo

2 weeks ago I was awakened with "You need to get up". After a few minutes I realized I wasn't dreaming and opened a bleary eye. One look at Rick with his hand holding a finger I knew it was the end of my sleep! Off to the emergency room. It is just past midnight. He had creatively managed to shut a pocket knife on his knuckle. Sliced the whole top right off. At the emergency room they checked it, cleaned it and basically said he would need to see an orthopedic surgeon as soon as possible-they could do nothing for it there. Of course Dr Ray has surgeries on Fridays so they opened the office for Rick to see the PA. Originally he said he would call us so Rick could see Dr Ray in between surgeries but then he called and said come in on Monday. Monday it was decided that surgery was in order. Wouldn't it have been easier to do it the same day? I know for Rick he would have liked to have all the major pain the day it happened insteadof spreading it out! So Wednesday he had surgery and was told to leave the bandage intact until Monday when the DR would remove it. Being Rick, he whipped that bandage off as soon as we got home. He said it was cutting off the circulation. After he took it off he said it wasn't, it just felt like it. The surgery was to sew the tendon, I guess it had a split in it and the Dr also cut his skin to an eliptical shape and sewed it together. Now Rick has a really tight finger. He cannot bend it yet, feels like the stitches will rip open.Tomorrow he goes in to get the stitches out and then he will start exercising it to get it working again.