The best word in the English language...

I bet you all think it's something all holy like, grace or emmanuel...or chocolate...

But NO! It's "UNDISPLACED"!!!
I had x-rays on Tuesday to see what was wrong with my thumb which I had hurt three and a half weeks ago. It was all swollen and immobile for a couple of weeks, but I thought I just jarred it until it took forever to stop hurting... So THEN I decided to get it checked out...

So I went to the emergency ward of the hospital to avoid having to wait forever... and they said it would cost me $400 for the privilege. Instead I went to a walk in clinic to get a refereral to an x-ray place. I went last Friday, and they said that the x-ray place wouldn't be open again till Monday. So I went back Monday, paid $65 and waited three hours to see the doctor for 5 mins and get a proper x-ray request ($65 for a piece of paper...). By then the x-ray place was shut AGAIN. So I went back on Tuesday to get my x-ray, and after the x-ray they said call your doctor back in 3 days. So I called at 12:10pm today, and they said the doctor wasn't in yet, call back at 1pm. Then I called back at 1:15pm, and they left me on hold for 20 mins till I had to hang up on them to go do kettles by 2pm.
FINALLY I called AGAIN at 6:30pm tonight...stayed on hold for 15 mins... and FINALLY got in touch with the doctor!!!!

And he says... I have fractured the bottom part of the lower bone in my right thumb (the metacarpal) BUT it's an UNDISPLACED fracture!!!!! Which means it hasn't moved out of alignment, and if I keep it splinted I don't need to come back in for a cast or whatever, it will heal okay by itself. Yay! Hence UNDISPLACED is the best word ever because it means I am finished with the doctors and I don't have to pay more to get my thumb fixed!!!!

The only downside it that this stupid cold weather is going to aggravate it something chronic, just like it is bothering my right knee which is annoyed at me for going ice skating... (for anyone who's wondering, that's the knee I HAVEN'T had surgery on...)

Later :)

The hand up the top isn't my hand by the way...