I'm sure I read some posts about similar injuries on here before but can't seem to find them now.
Just over 5 weeks ago I was feeding a chunky piece of Hawthorn through the chipper. The wood flicked round and hit my right hand, leaving a pretty decent thorn right in the top knuckle of the 3rd finger. (I wasn't wearing thorn proof gloves, stupidly).
It was obviously pretty painful and put my hand into a bit of a spasm. It took a good 5 minutes of digging around to grab the end of the thorn and pull it out. I'm pretty sure it all came out in one piece.
Two weeks later, my hand was still sore and swollen whilst working with pain now going down into my arm. I went to hospital to get it looked at, xray showed the finger and hand had been broken but was now starting to heal up. They gave me antibiotics to get rid of any infection that might be happening.
That seemed to do the trick with the pain down my arm but the knuckle and area around it seems to be getting more painful each week, along with it swelling up so you can't really make out the last two knuckles when I make a fist.
I've had another xray which doesn't show anymore damage to the break but I've been told I'll need an ultrasound to see if any plant material has been left inside.
I've been doing a bit of reading up and it seems surgery is the only option, if there is still plant material in there or if its developed into Synovitis.
Has anyone had the same happen? Did you have surgery? What was the recovery time.like?
Any help or advice would be really appreciated.
Cheers.
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