Recovery

So, I wiggled my stump yesterday. I was given a series of exercises (stump wiggling not being one of them) to gain strength and dexterity in my two-month-immobilized hand. I can still feel my middle finger as if it was wholly there. I accidentally flexed it and I could feel the stump wiggle inside the heavy gauze bandage that mummifies my hand. It left a faint ache, but not the sharp pain I would've expected. My hand is structurally sound now, so I'm pushing the exercises as much as I can. I'm working on making a partial fist so I can grasp a paddle when we kayak over to Captain Cook's monument in Hawaii in a couple of weeks. It's good to have goals. I've got another physical therapy appointment today, and a follow-up with the surgeon tomorrow before we head down to San Luis Obispo for Turkey Day.