to ask how long hand will take to heal so i can look after my baby!! :-(

[spanglyflip]

single parent with too much other stuff on my plate
hurt my thumb joint/wrist by applying too much pressure
was getting a bit better but had to use it without paying 100% attention today and it's swelled a bit and is sore. Basically if I leave the house I damage the recovery as I can't concentrate 100% on how i'm moving it when i'm getting the pram on the bus etc etc, but I need to go out sometimes or I'm going to go a bit crazy
any advice gratefully received, am just about managing to feed myself and make the baby's bottles

[insan1tyscartching]

Have you had an x ray? Do you know that nothing is broken? If not I'd get it looked at at A&E tomorrow, it may be that you need a cast in order for it to start to heal.

[Xmasbaby11]

Poor you! Can you get a friend to come round to keep you sane, or to help you get out with the buggy?

As you say you have to keep going with looking after a baby, so recovery will probably take a bit longer. But even if you didn't have a baby you'd still have to use your hand sometimes, so I wouldn't worry about it.

[spanglyflip]

thanks. I doubt it's broken....I don't want to believe it's broken! Recovery was slow but ok until today :-(

[thecitydoc]

you need to go to A&E for an x-ray - sounds like it may be broken, but if not you will need some kind of support and strong painkillers. Not wanting to believe it's broken does not mean it isn't.

[WhereYouLeftIt]

Do you really want to risk permanent damage? Because that is a possibility if you don't get your wrist properly treated.

It might be a fracture, a sprain, a pulled muscle - whatever, it can't be diagnosed online, you need to have it looked at by someone who knows. Go to A&E, they can treat it.