Really bad skier's thumb = surgery?
So, about 7 or 8 years ago I wrecked pretty good in Crested Butte and busted up my thumb. Seeing as it was spring break and I wanted to keep skiing I wrapped my black and blue and possibly broken right thumb in tape and shoved it into a mitten so I could keep skiing.
Over the years it has gotten worse and worse. In the last few days it has gotten REALLY bad after I played drums for like 15 minutes.
It looks more "dislocated" than it usually does. (Visually my thumbs have not looked the same since my initial injury....its always looks dislocated and the basal joint sticks way out sometimes and sometimes it looks to be in place a little more.)
Now I am wearing a spica splint I got at Walgreens. My whole arm hurts now, I can barely move/use my thumb and the tendons in the web part between my thumb and hand hurt alot.
How fucked am I? My hands are my tools for work and I can't see how I could ever take time off to get surgery and rehab it.