Saimar86 Member Profile

...See more I provide case management and direct patient care for individuals with physical and mental disabilities. Last year at this time, I was training to also become a wildland firefighter (forestry). By July, an individual I support had flung a metal door open and I flung my hand up to stop the door from slamming into my face. (I had been in the process of reaching out to open it when it came flying open.) I heard a loud crunch as my hand bent at a funky angle, reported it to HR, walked it off and assumed I'd probably just sprained it. Two days later I was back to direct patient care, doing a whole lot of lifting with a quadriplegic individual. A week later, my hand was twice it's normal size and I couldn't even lift a pencil. The pain was ridiculous, all the way through to my back and my hand felt like it had ants inside it. Three doctors, two X-Rays, ultrasound therapy, two MRIs and an arthrogram later it was discovered I had a dislocated lunate, torn tendon with a dislocated ulna and severe bone bruising on pretty much the whole hand. And a strange bump that might be a cyst or a broken abone/calcification of unknown origin. I'm not progressing in OT and now I have some variation of Complex Regional Pain Syndrome, with hypo-sensitivity to pain but hyper awareness of sensations and crappy circulation to that arm and hives if I work with my hand too much. I can't feel the pain they say I should be in. :/ Anyone else heard of something like this?

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