Journal longtailedhermit's Journal: My amputation 4
Recap: nearly 1 year ago, part of my hand was amputated following injuries sustained in an accident. The accident was with heroin. I accidentally injected myself in an artery. The damage was nearly instantaneous and I soon had gangrene in all 5 fingers. Up to the time of my surgery, I was freaking out and needed a quasi-anonymous place to vent. I've read slashdot for years so I thought I would take advantage of its Journal resource. I also wanted a private place to vent where my girlfriend (at the time) wouldn't spy on me. Unfortunately, this didn't work out. All she had to do was snoop in my browser history. She read my journal found some things she didn't like and proceeded to berate me and make me sleep in the basement for what I had written. That was one of the reasons for my inactivity this past year. That and I still can't come to terms with this.
As a side note, for therapy, somebody suggested I go around to area schools as part of the DARE program. The idea being that I would 1) serve as a living example of why some drugs and methods of ingesting them can be very bad and 2) face my issues head on. I haven't mustered the courage to go around and give talks at schools, but I thought I could try to do something by following up with another journal entry.
Here are some gruesome before and after pictures I took with my digital camera. I posted some of them in an earlier entry.
Before surgery: http://img72.imageshack.us/i/armandhand.png/
After surgery:
1) http://img822.imageshack.us/i/afteramputation.jpg/
2) http://img243.imageshack.us/i/afteramp2.jpg/
3) http://img243.imageshack.us/i/afteramp3.jpg/
4) http://img214.imageshack.us/i/afteramp4.jpg/
Help please (Score:1)
It's been so long that I've forgotten how slashdot's Journals work. Maybe the layout and control buttons have been changed. If anybody is reading this, I was wondering how you 1) edit your own entry and 2) browse other people's Journals.
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Old school 'last 5 entries' with controls [slashdot.org]
Old school JE list with controls [slashdot.org]
Last but not least, go into your preferences, as new ones have been introduced and turned on by default, so you'll need to 'restore' to the old look probably.
As to your injury, commiseration and congrats for making it through it. Although, I don't think you deserve any extra special psychological baggage because your injury vector was drugs and not, say, a home improvement mishap. Just my 2 cents.
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Thanks for the kind words and the info. I will read those links and see if I can figure this out.