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Inaugural official use of my custom Catan board game! This board was tough, and there were soooo many 8s being rolled. I won though, which I think I earned by spending over 40 hours crafting the board by hand!

Daily driving the Miyazakeyboard instead of the Moonlander for work until my surgery heals up more.

I had the stitches removed today, and they took another x-ray. Here are my right thumb x-rays before and after the surgery. (Top and side views.) The surgeon removed the nonunion bone fragment, and she said the end of the intact bone was protruding through my skin once she removed the nail, so she shaved it down so that it wasn’t literally sticking out of my finger 😬

I had surgery on my right hand on March 7. My right thumbnail (including the nail plate, nail bed, and germinal matrix — the entire nail organ) were permanently removed. A nonunion bone fragment was removed from inside my thumb, and a full thickness skin graft from my inner wrist was grafted onto my thumb. This whole procedure was actually way, way more involved, intense, painful, and complicated than what I had initially expected going into it. I also had a complication post-op involving an injury to the unhealed wound (thanks to my puppy). My healing has been set back by this. I’m nervous about the removal of stitches tomorrow because my entire finger is still so, so sensitive to touch / pain. I’ve been very carefully, slowly, and painstakingly making some very minor projects predominantly with my left (non-dominant) hand. I’d like to make some earrings with these little oranges, but I definitely cannot use pliers or flush cutters yet, so that’s a ways out.

It’s going to be a while before I can use my dominant hand fully. I felt like I was just starting to learn all over again doing this predominantly with my off hand and without a right thumb.

My right (dominant hand) surgery was successful:

Miniature oranges and orange juice 🍊 1:12 scale

Tiny oranges and orange juice 🍊

Tiny food I’ve made

Next week, I am going to have surgery on my right hand to permanently remove the entire fingernail and nail bed of my thumb, and biopsy the tissue. I will not have a fingernail on my right thumb ever again 😫

Chicken tikka masala keychains

Princess Mononoke forest spirit miniatures

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