Fran Larson

I Broke My Right Pinky Finger: I Have a Hard Time Staying Off The Computer - Will It Heal?


Posted: Monday, November 23, 2009

by Fran Larson
http://www.franniesquotes.com/

Writing is what a real writer does, isn't it? All my fellow writers know how it is I just can't not write. The more I write, the more I want to write. Is this some kind of addiction?

I have to write in bits and pieces when my husband Jim is either asleep or away from the house. If he sees me writing, he will chastise me for not having my arm elevated. He means well, but does not understand the fact that I have to write. I have things to say.

The problem is that a broken pinky is kind of like not having a pinky, which would be like this:

"You'd lose 50 percent of your hand strength, easily," says Laurie Rogers, an occupational therapist who is a certified hand therapist at National Rehabilitation Hospital in Washington. Rogers explains that while the index and middle fingers function, with the thumb, in pinching and grabbing, zipping zippers, and buttoning buttons - the pinkie teams up with the ring finger to provide hand power. (From hand research.com)

The little finger, often called the pinky in American English and pinkie in Dutch pink, meaning little finger), is the most ulnar and usually smallest finger of the human hand, opposite the thumb, next to the finger. (From wikipedia word)

At least no one bit my pinky off, as http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/2009/09/03/2009-09-03_mans_finger_bitten_off_at_health_care_reform_protes in the case of a recent scuffle between two men.
 
I can hunt and peck with my left hand, but there is one thing I cannot do and that is this; I can't give you a pinky promise about anything.

A pinky swear or pinky promise is made when a person wraps one of their pinky fingers around the other person's pinky and makes a promise. Traditionally, it's considered binding, and the idea was originally that the person who breaks the promise must cut off their pinky finger. (Wikipedia)

I don't want to do a pinky swear or a pinky promise because what if I can't keep the promise? I surely don't want my pinky cut off. My writing would definitely be slower.

Francine Larson:

Co-Author of Character Keys to a Bright Future.

She is a freelance writer

Francine Larson has a new book that just came out, "The Lure of Annabelle Key Lighthouse," an exciting Christian Teen Novella. You may view it at: https://www.smashwords.com/books/view/115229

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She also writes for The Highlands at Scotland Yards. She writes poetry and short stories. She is a contributor for Yahoo (http://contributor.yahoo.com/user/685738/francine_larson.html)

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