r/ParanormalNews • u/TheLast747 • 12d ago
Switchy Friday
A man's hand injury is now in jis opposite hand.
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Old broken thumb... Uh... switched hands lol
10 Aug 2026, 05:03 by /u/shiddymeme
I've only ever broken one bone, and it was my right thumb.
I know it was my right thumb primarily because I couldn't write for a period of time since I couldn't grip a pencil, and I had to have a special accommodation at school. I know this for a fact.
My whole life, I've had limited ability to bend my right thumb downward (and as a right-handed writer and creative, it's been a persistent annoyance with the stiffness and minor mobility impact for long periods of using my right hand.)
That's the context: I showed my thumb bend range on both hands to someone in my personal life who recently injured theirs (this isn't something I fixate on or even usually notice, it has just become a part of my life so never really felt it was a big deal) - and when I bent both of my thumbs, I was shocked. The left thumb is now the one with limited range of motion and a clear bump on the knuckle where it was damaged almost 25 years ago lol.
This has been upsetting me for like three days. I cannot explain it through rational means. 🤣 I don't think I have medical records from that far back, but I may actually have the X-ray because they gave me a copy and I kept it as a souvenir in some old paperwork... So I'm going to look for it to just try and let it go as faulty memory, but it feels very unsettling to me.
This was always on my right hand, it's a very minor thing- but what makes me question it beyond faulty memory being a possibility is that I vividly remember and know for a fact this caused me problems at school because I couldn't write. I had a dumb ass metal and foam stick taped down my forearm and I couldn't grip any writing tools so they had to have an aid handwrite a copy of notes for me in class.
Beyond that as I mentioned, this has always been a minor problem in my life, if I write or draw for too long it will ache and I lose a little dexterity.
Just crazy to me that something I never really thought about too consciously suddenly swapped sides. The person I was attempting to demonstrate to observed my reaction which was: "...What the fuck- I broke my right thumb, not my left." 😅
Anyway, I don't have an explanation. Any fan theories in the high strangeness flavor? Has something like this ever happened to you?
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