{"id":3738,"date":"2006-10-20T18:22:28","date_gmt":"2006-10-20T22:22:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mainecourse.com\/mt\/?p=1488"},"modified":"2006-10-20T18:22:28","modified_gmt":"2006-10-20T22:22:28","slug":"doms-splint-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mainecourse.com\/mt\/2006\/10\/20\/doms-splint-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Dom&#039;s Splint"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mike,<\/p>\n<p>As I was leaving Starbucks this morning, who should I see coming towards me but The Once Proud Dominator, Dominic.  We both said &#8220;Hi!&#8221;, and then I looked down at his right hand. It was swathed in an Ace bandage, and his pinkie finger was strapped to a metal flange. &#8220;What did they do to you?&#8221;, I asked in surprise. He started to tell me the gory details, but I reminded him that I had seen him eating with chopsticks the previous Thursday. He said, &#8220;I was in a lot of pain, and it wasn&#8217;t any better, so I decided to go in and have it looked at.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>He lifted up his hand and showed me. The Ace bandage covers a cast which tilts his wrist at an odd angle. &#8220;But I&#8217;m glad I did,&#8221; he went on, &#8220;It doesn&#8217;t hurt any more.  They found a break up high on the side of my hand.&#8221;  So I said, &#8220;But I guess you can&#8217;t play racquetball for a while.&#8221; He responded, &#8220;Just two weeks. Your wrist was laid up a lot longer, wasn&#8217;t it. Six weeks?&#8221;\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>I was a little shocked at his happy-go-lucky, Aussie insouciance. &#8220;But you can&#8217;t use a computer very easily now, can you.  (That&#8217;s his main job, programming.) &#8220;No problem.&#8221; He held up his hand, tilted in its funny way, and wiggled his fingers.&#8221; And to prove it, he opened the door to Starbucks with his splinted hand and went in, saying, &#8220;See you.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Sorry, Mike, I didn&#8217;t get any X-rays.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;rakkity<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mike, As I was leaving Starbucks this morning, who should I see coming towards me but The Once Proud Dominator, Dominic. We both said &#8220;Hi!&#8221;, and then I looked down at his right hand. It was swathed in an Ace &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/mainecourse.com\/mt\/2006\/10\/20\/doms-splint-2\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3738","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-other","category-rakkity"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mainecourse.com\/mt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3738","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mainecourse.com\/mt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mainecourse.com\/mt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mainecourse.com\/mt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mainecourse.com\/mt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3738"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mainecourse.com\/mt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3738\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mainecourse.com\/mt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3738"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mainecourse.com\/mt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3738"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mainecourse.com\/mt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3738"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}