First Time

Fist Time

     Two years ago it was hockey season and I was and still am a goalie. It was just a normal day where I had a hockey practice after school. Of course I didn't think anything was going to happen. During practice I was taking shots and this kid on my team who has a pretty hard shot, shot it and it went right up the paddle of my stick and hit me right in the pointer finger and that finger was not covered. It hurt really bad so I went off to the bench and my coach took a look at it and said that it was not broken. Though it was bruised pretty bad and that I should go to a walk in clinic to put a hot needle through my nail to drain the blood because it looked pretty swollen. I could barely bend my finger and it was all purple around where I got hit.

     A couple days later me and my mom went to a walk in clinic and told the doctor about what had happened. He got this thing that looked like a pen and had a skinny piece of metal at the end, plugged it in and all he did was click a button on it. The piece of metal went bright red almost right away. So he grabbed my finger and said he is going to count to three. He went one, two then stuck it in my nail without even saying 3. It did not hurt at first, but at the end when it just touched the skin it hurt so bad, I think it hurt worse then when I got hit by the puck. There was blood coming out, but he said not as much as he suspected. After it was all done he told us to go to the emergency to get an x-ray to see if its actually broken.

     The next day we went to the hospital and like usual we waited for about 2 hours. When i finally got called they took some x-rays and said yeah it is broken. This was the first bone i have ever broken and i was pretty sad that I could not play hockey for about 4 weeks. They put this aluminum thing around my finger and wrapped a bandage basically around my whole hand, but I could still use my other fingers. It was very difficult to do anything like use a pencil, play video games, and to basically do anything.

     Every hockey game my team played i stood on the bench and still got to watch them play. Every week I went to the hospital to get a check up and an x-ray done to see how my fingers healing. When they took the bandage off my finger looked all weird and square because off the metal piece they had on my finger to make sure I don't move it. Where my finger had broken was right at the tip of it and there was a crack at one part on their was also a chipped off piece of bone just floating around.

      I had my finger wrapped up for about three weeks and when i finally got to take the bandage off it felt amazing, but since i have not moved my finger for three weeks I could barely move it. It took a couple days for me to actually get the full movement of my finger. It was a horrible experience to break my finger, but when it was all done it felt amazing and hey it was my first broken bone.