The A and Sports Injuries

As some of you may have heard, Annette has once again sustained a sports injury. She broke her pinky bowling. Well, technically, she was not actually bowling, but picking up a bowling ball. She says it happened because she has such "big guns" and does not know her own strength. She was taking a ball off the rack at the back of the alley, behind the bowling lanes, and she somehow picked it up so fast that she hit the top of her pinky on the bar above the rack. So her pinky was smashed between the bowling ball and the metal bar. I suspect most bowling ball accidents happen because the bowling ball is heavy and gravity pulls it down onto fingers and toes and whatnot. In this case, the weight of the ball and gravity were actually slowing her down, trying to prevent her from whacking her pinky so hard against the metal bar at the top of the rack. But not even gravity could do much to restrain the force of her mighty muscles (yes, it's back to the "big guns" explanation), and so she broke her pinky right at the last joint. The doctor said it's called a DIP fracture, but the term has nothing to do with how she did it. (I'm not making that up; apparently DIP stands for digital interphalangial).

Because the fracture occurred at the joint, it doesn't heal very well without some extra help so on Tuesday she had to have surgery and get some pins put in. Here she is after the surgery.

Her biggest complaint is that the cast (which will be on for four weeks) interferes with the gang signs she likes to throw.

It was out-patient surgery, so she is home, resting reasonably well.