How much do you use your thumb anyway?

About a month ago, Greg and I finally agreed on painting the brick on our fireplace white. Greg stayed up one night and primed it ( I tried to help but that was the last night of the late show with Conan O'Brien and I couldn't keep my eyes off the T.V. ) Somehow during this process Greg got something in his thumb that started an infection. The infection and pain grew for two days until he could no longer take the pain. Being an Anesthesia Resident he decided to block his thumb and slice into it to relieve the pressure and get out the infection ( this is at my kitchen table of course ) After a couple of tries he gives up because no infection would come out. A couple of more days go by and the man is in the most pain he has ever been in - and my husband has been in a lot of pain in his life. ( Flashback to him driving to Lexington for a Bone Marrow Biopsy the day after he had surgery to remove kidney stones, them he drove back home right after the procedure). Anyway, long story short, he gets a minor surgery on his thumb at work one night where they sliced it open and cleaned the whole thing out. They found out he had MRSA in his thumb - aren't we all so glad that he was still able to do Anesthesia on sick patients right after this? He then proceeds to take the most pain medication I have ever seen one person take at a time and I am up all night making sure he is still alive.

Apparently, having an infection in your thumb is one of the worst places to have surgery on the body. The nerve endings there are highly sensitive. Here are a few pics......oh , and I added one from when Greg had a Strep infection in his blood in November and was hospitalized for a week. The picture is from when he was still at home and decided he needed an I.V. ......on my chair. This is life with a Resident people, Surgeries at the kitchen table and I.V.'s on the couch. Who knew?

I just realized i added these pictures in reverse order. Oh well!