Zippy and the broken hand

Last weekend, Zippy was playing soccer when he came off just before the half thinking he had some how dilocated his left pinky finger.  After a paramedic friend tried to pop it back into place and couldn't, Zippy headed off to play the remainder of the game.  Afterwards, I looked at it and noticed the "dislocation" was not really at the knuckle but more in his hand.  When it started to swell and it looked like maybe it wasn't just dislocated, Zippy headed to the doctor's to see what was up.  They took x-rays and said he had an angulated fracture and was referred to a orthopedic hand surgeon.  He refused to have it casted because he wanted to play soccer, again, on Sunday so they wrapped it and sent him on his way.  Sunday, the hand surgeon called and said it looked like it could be manually reset without surgery so yesterday we headed back to the doctors to have it reset.   Zippy was  a trooper even when they put him in this ancient torture device.  It was like a metal Chinese finger trap that went over his finger while weights were added to his arm to help gravity lengthen and straighten his finger. 

Zippy wants some sympathy so he wanted me to take this pic :)

After they tortured him with this device and some poor jokes from Zippy, the doctor came back and started to work on popping the bone back into place.  Her first attempt was not successful so they ended up having to cut the cast off and redo it.  We were there for almost 3 hours and they finally got it where it needed to be.  The doctor said Zippy was the best patient ever and as she walked out the door said not to believe him, he was in a lot of pain!   He did convince the doctor to let him come back in 3 weeks instead of 6 in hopes of getting something other than a hard cast so he could play soccer again....