Skelecast
Tuesday, April 1, 2008, 5:24 pm •
I got a new cast last week. It is a real cast, not a splint, and so I was finally able draw on it. I won't bore you with the technical details, but you can be assured that this drawing is as close to medically accurate as I was able to achieve. I think of it as an homage to Nigel Tufnel's shirt (fast-forward to 1:04). In retrospect, I should have tried harder to find a green marker.. maybe I can still do that before the cast comes off.
I also recently found out about MLB player Jayson Werth, who had the same surgery. See here, here and here. These articles confirmed a few suspicions I had: namely, that Dr. Berger is the only person on the planet who knows about this injury (let alone knowing how to fix it); that anyone who has a split tear in their UT ligament will end up on a several-year wild goose chase; and that if you don't have any doctor-friends who can randomly suggest, "hey, you should check out this guy at Mayo," then you will never find out about it.
Nice cast. The bones are even shaded, just as I’d expect. I look forward to the day your guitar comes back to life!
That hand could still do Guitar Hero