My Hand

On January 23 on our way home from bringing someone home we stopped at the High School. I got out to see what was up, because there were a lot of cars there. When I got out i did a stupid. I went to close the van door. Instead of taking my hand out of the van to close the door I grabbed the handle inside and pulled on it. I didn't move my hand fast enough. The door slammed my hand. I was really good though...I was tough/stubborn enough to not cry. I came close but didn't. My hand started to swell, the door even took a small chunk out of my hand. I wasn't bleeding but I was worried it might. On the way to Walmart I had a water bottle that had water in it frozen on my hand.

When we got to Walmart I grabbed the cart because I needed to elevate my hand. We were getting food for dinner and some water. While walking around we got hot dogs. Mom put a pack on my hand so the cold would make some of the swelling go down. We walked around and got all the stuff we needed. I was quit interesting walking around with hot dogs on my hand.

Sunday night and Monday morning I iced my hand. Then Monday night I put heat on it. It is Friday now and I haven't put heat or ice on my hand sence Monday. My hand still hurts every once in a while but not as much. When it does hurt it is really painful. There are times when I can handle the pain...but there are also times when I want to scream because of the pain.

I am going sledding tonight with my church youth group. I hope I don't do anything to my hand to make it worse. If I do I will just have to deal with it and be careful.