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So, I was recently admitted to the Royal Victoria Infirmary (RVI) – a hospital under the Newcastle Upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust – for a final surgery on my thumb and it made me think and realise all the different elements you need when being admitted to hospital. And that they don’t have in evolve around packing a toothbrush and chargers for your phone!
Why I was admitted…
Unfortunately,
I broke my wrist in November 2019, and apparently that injury can lead to what
happened with my thumb on Boxing Day (December 26th) 2019. I was
using my thumbs to try to wiggle the cork of a bottle of Prosecco loose when
all of a sudden, I couldn’t move my right thumb (you can read my first post
about the injury here)!
It wasn’t as though it was sore, and I couldn’t move it because it’d hurt, I just genuinely couldn’t move it. It was so frustrating because I could feel my brain telling my thumb to lift up, but it just hung there, powerless, limp and lifeless. It was definitely one of those things where you don’t appreciate what you’ve got until it’s gone! I really hadn’t recognised just how important my thumb was to my general movement and ability to do things until I couldn’t use it.