I told the doctor, "just don't take my hand."

"But what is the hand without an opposable thumb," answered the surgeon.

That was the last thing a remembered while in the operating room, the night I was going to get my hand fixed, cleaned, cut, operated on. The reason for the surgery was the I was involved in a fight and the other individual grabbed by left thumb and bit it at the knuckle. I had it cleaned like a regular cut but after a few days at work it was starting to hurt, the pain I can deal with, high pain threshold, until my hand gave trying to pick up a heavy box. Next few days I spent them at home trying to get over the pain and having my sister clean up the wound, but after the second night I woke up in severe pain and a bad fever, when I took off the dressing my hand had swollen really bad. Called me dad to give me a ride to the hospital, were they preceded to run tests and check the wound, the smell was starting to get bad.

When the surgeon came down to look and found out that it was a human bite that caused it, he informed me that he had only seen infections get that bad in diabetic patients. He also told me that he was going to try and save the thumb, but there were no guaranties. So they took me up to the operating room where the nurses tied me up from head to toe. Why, in case I moved. it is a small space, the hand, and any little movement could cause the surgeon to cut too much; for this very reason I could not stay awake to see the surgery. No count, no notice, lights out.

After about one hour and a half, I woke up hungry, wondering if I still had my thumb, and screaming! A nurse calm me down, gave me a sandwich, and told me I still had my thumb. I was in the hospital for 13 days over these bite, spent X-mas in there, had some crybabies for room mates, but all in all lesson learned. Keep your thumbs in when fitting or you might just end up losing one. Wait that is not it, when bitten by a human go to the hospital at once; Hell thats not it. When you are going to get surgery take your underwear off or the nurse will have to do it for you (sorry nurses), no that lesson I did not learn. I know this is it, do not fight! You don't know where your opponents mouth has been!