In the last month our family has been bent on the subject of thumbs. Well, maybe it’s just me. I find it fascinating that all our thumbs are so different. In what way, are you asking? Well, if we all have a hitchhiker’s thumb, of course! It all stems from my best friend’s science project back in Middle School. I don’t remember much about it or even what her findings were, but I remember she did a project about this particular digit and I’ve always thought it cool that I have a hitchhiker’s thumb that’s almost at a 90° angle.
I thought I’d read up a little about this special trait and found this quote on medcyclopaedia.com. Here’s what it says about hitchhiker’s thumb: “a deformity of the thumb characterized by flexion at the metacarpophalangeal joint and hyperextension at the interphalangeal joint.”
Whatever. My thumb is not a deformity, or an abnormality as it also states elsewhere on the site. Neither is Marks, I might add.
So Sunday afternoon I got all of the family to pose their thumb for the camera.
Piper
Calista
Téa
Me
Mark
So, here was the consensus: Mark and I have hitchhiker’s thumbs, Piper might have one (she’s still trying to figure out how to make the tip of her thumb bend back), Téa is totally straight and Calista’s is straight but she can point her whole thumb back a whole lot more than the rest of us. And after messing around a little bit more we found her hand can do this…
Gross, huh? She’s probably double jointed. I kept bending it back and asking “does this hurt?” over and over.
1 comment:
You guys are weird
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