Northern Michigan to Sandusky Ohio. 2016

[ebb]

Great story of a first? voyage!

Thanks for sharing

I'll always have the image of a hitch hiker with a broken thumb!!

Glad you got it fixed -- no later mention of any problems?

What could you have done without medical help?

Could you have popped it back, now that you've had it done??

[elliotr]

joeniver, I'm not sure what movement you're talking about. The third picture from the top is in Put-In-Bay Ohio. There's no tide in the Great Lakes. When the wind blows just right inside a bay we get a few inches drop but that's it.

ebb, the thumbs fine now. Not as dexterous as the other one but I can open bottles and still thumb wrestle. When I first got the anchor in, I tried to pop in back in place only for a brief moment because the pain was too much, I pulled out my cellphone and with my one good thumb looked up webMD.com. The first thing they said was don't try to pop it back in place.

The doctor had to have tree tries at getting it back in place, and this was after they put me on drugs to lesson the pain. I'm not a cry baby by any means but this was not your usual dislocation. My saving grace was the fact that within 1 hour of dislocating it I was in a hospital talking to the doctor. The longer you wait the worse it gets.