Sticks and stones can break my bones but cigarette cabinets work better

Broken bones hurt. I have broken my fair share of bones but if there is one bone in your body that is the most inconvenient I would have to say that it is any of your fingers. I currently have a broken pinky on my right hand and yes, it hurts, but it's more annoying than anything. I can't type properly, I can't lift things... showering takes so much longer. But the worst thing about a broken finger is that you are just slightly incapable.

You can still write, type, walk, speak, move around, dance and many other things, they just happen more slowly. You can even work!! I mean, if I'm going to break any bone, let it be something that gets me some time off. Now I just end up at work, in pain, getting things done at a snails pace. It would just be so much easier to have the damn thing taken off!! At least then it wouldn't get caught on things and hurt like hell.

Getting caught on things is the worst. I have my finger splinted which keeps it (mostly) in the one position but now I have to contend with having this huge lump surrounding my finger... which just makes it an easier target for all those annoying things that you normally wouldn't think about. Pockets, towels, doorframes, your ear as you run your fingers through your hair, the list is endless. And when it happens, you just feel like you've broken it all over again!!

I must say, the most painful bone that I have broken is a rib. Unlike fingers which you can just strap up and not use for 6 weeks, your ribs are in constant use. Breathing, laughing, coughing, you can't escape it. So what did I do when I had broken ribs? I went to the doctor to get some pain medication. Now the side-effects of Tramydol are numerous so I won't go in to too much detail but among the hallucinations and headaches is a little thing called nausea. What does nausea cause? Vomiting. At 3 o clock in the morning, on my hands and knees heaving over a garden bed I had to weigh up my choices. Continue on the drugs and possibly break more ribs (or so it felt like) or just deal with the pain? Pretty easy choice.

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