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Article: All thumbs: 24 hours without index finger is lesson in connectedness
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- Lancaster New Era Lancaster, PA
- Article date:
- May 16, 2005
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When I slip in a boulder field while turkey hunting and smash my
right index finger with the butt of a shotgun, my first reaction is
relief that the digit isn't broken.
My second is a realization that the bloody tip with the dislodged
nail is my trigger finger.
Within hours, however, the injury to such a small part of my body
begins to manifest itself as a much more sweeping disruption.
I never thought that losing use of one little body part could be
so life altering.
I find otherwise. I learn with surprise and, eventually,
admiration, that the human body is a finely tuned machine, its many
elements intertwined.
Each has a role and the loss of even one part can affect the
whole, throw it out ...