Three weeks later, and I was starting to go a little stir crazy. I was finally caught up on my school, I had transferred to an online high school and could do everything from my new laptop. The bandages didn't help with my typing, but at least the left thumb wasn't used for much. What hurt the most was having to hide myself from all my friends, for security reasons of course. I didn't even install Facebook on my new machine.

Luckily, I had a thing going on. I had found a hand surgeon in Billings who had time to see me late in the afternoon. I walked to the...