{"id":64161,"date":"2026-10-12T07:13:40","date_gmt":"2026-10-12T13:13:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/?p=64161"},"modified":"2026-10-12T07:16:53","modified_gmt":"2026-10-12T13:16:53","slug":"some-angle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/?p=64161","title":{"rendered":"Some Angle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A sticky floor. Vibram soles. Caught myself-ha-on my left forehead. Whack on the dining room floor. Ouch. Looked over at my right hand. You know how fingers look. My little finger&#8217;s top two joints pointed away from my hand at a 70 degree angle. Well. That didn&#8217;t look right. What the nurse said in the E.R. Doc Miner, too.<\/p>\n<p>I will be happy to put 2026 in memory. Not been a great year. In this visit to the ER, required due to my head banging, I felt no pain. Until. Dr. Miner got a syringe full of lidocaine and stuck a needle in the soft tissue of my injured little finger. He worked the needle around the bone. OMG. That hurt.<\/p>\n<p>After he picked up my hand in his. &#8220;That&#8217;s done.&#8221; Sure enough, I had a straight finger. Easy. If you ignore the fall, the ambulance ride, and that damned needle.<\/p>\n<p>Also. CT scan. No skull fracture. No brain bleed. No neck injury. Time to go home. So glad I&#8217;m at Elk Run.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Same day. After I was back in 308. The mail. A thick card. Who&#8217;s this from? My fellow docents of the class of 2005(I think.) had written messages while having a lunch together. Unexpected. Sweet. Couldn&#8217;t have come at a better time.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A sticky floor. Vibram soles. Caught myself-ha-on my left forehead. Whack on the dining room floor. Ouch. Looked over at my right hand. You know how fingers look. My little finger&#8217;s top two joints pointed away from my hand at a 70 degree angle. Well. That didn&#8217;t look right. What the nurse said in the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/?p=64161\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Some Angle<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,4421,127,566,243,246],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-64161","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art","category-elk-run","category-health","category-humanities","category-memories","category-minnesota"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64161","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=64161"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64161\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":64165,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64161\/revisions\/64165"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=64161"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=64161"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=64161"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}