Joylynn Hardesty

I live where they are invasive. Yup. They are all over. Except for my yard. It took 20 years, I finally have 3 trees. I tried often to grow these from wild harvesed seed. All the trees  I have are under 4 years old planted by birdies. Now I can coppise and make medicines. I say yay for regenerating medicine!

Bonus, I can't see mimosa blooms without thinking of my great grandmother. I loved sitting under the mimosa in her garden. My oldest tree bloomed this year.

Apparently I don't know the back of my hands well at all. My other middle finger is slightly bent. 20° ? I'm not looking for a protractor for confirmation. No suden injury happened with it. Chiro says it happens from over use, repetitive motions. His fingers are bent as well.

Late late last night I took off the splint. There was swelling and bruising. No pic proof. Thanks to DEEP the bruise is almost not visible. Swelling is way down. It will probably swell back up some at work, with the finger muscles fighting the splint.

I we most of the night without the splint. It's while working I am most likely to bang it up. Another pic of my relaxed finger against a straight edge. Progress!!

Doc Chiro agrees with Burra's diagnosis. THANK YOU! He tried to pull it back in place, only minor pain. No improvement. He recommended the same stuff as you wonderful people. Plus working out trigger points along the tendons. He said conventional medicine would give me steroids and about 50% success rate for healing. Hmmm.. nope.

I've had it in a real splint since 3. I took it off for a few minutes. I can now move the finger tip about 1/2 inch. Yay

Yes, am using DEEP. Any injury with out a cut that I accomplish gets DEEP. Invest? Did you mean ingest? Auto correct sucks.

As it happens, my chiropractor appointment is in a couple hours.

Last night I couldn't make the finger tip move at all. I can't straighten it any from the current odd angle. But I can close it a 1/4 inch and move it back and forth. Still no pain.

Hmmm... Mebe so. Thanks Burra. Article says to ice and splint. Already rigged a splint, and am icing.

Any other ideas?

The pic with the popsicle stick shows my finger with no tension on it at all.

What have I done?

So, ummm... I did a thing. While hurriedly removing my compression socks, which I removed with my finger under the 'cuff' in an extended position, I heard a snap. It felt like I had jammed it.

It feels odd, but there is currently very little swelling, and no pain. The oddness feels like it is associated with a tendon.

Outside Pride has always treated me right. They have some seed packets, but mostly sell in pound plus quantities.

There is great satisfaction in fixing stuff myself. Even the few times my fix, didn't fix, I learned new stuff. Thanks to all the Permies people who have helped me successfully fix stuff.