About 15 months ago Mr. Chickadee and I were in a car accident. We were rear ended while waiting to turn left and it scared the living shit out of me. Took a long time before I could ride in a car without panicking and to be honest, I still don't like being in cars. Psychological trauma aside my worst physical injury was to my left hand. I broke my hand in at least 5 places (a few more spots have been debated back and forth) including two bad fractures through my proximal interphalangeal joint. See picture below for reference.

I was out of work from my regular job for almost six months, which is a crazy amount of time, I just had too much pain and no strength in my hand for a really long time. The pain never really went all the way away, so in January I decided to get two joint replacements, I got one in my index finger PIP and one in my middle finger. It's still semi-experimental, but so far the results have been good. I still have daily pain, but I think it's getting better. 

The best part is that knitting doesn't hurt anymore, yay! Knitting has always been one of my favorite occupations, and it was so hard for me not being able to enjoy doing it as much since my accident. AND this week I got permission to take my bike riding. It feels like I might finally be coming around the other side of this thing.