Ouch!

So the week before school was out - yes, that was mid-June, I hurt my hand. I was coming upstairs from the basement and tripped up the steps landing with the force of my body with my hand jammed into the door jamb. My ring finger and middle finger were forced toward my palm and it took a few minutes for them to loosen up. They continued to hurt on and off since then. The knuckle between my pointer finger and middle finger can continued to be swollen - not really noticable, but when you compare it to the other hand, it does look swollen. The strange thing is that it will seem fine - except when I make twisting motions with my hand - for example, I can't really twist the cap off of anything very easily since then. And sometimes, I end up bumping my hand and the pain shoots up my hand and arm. But most things I can do easily, typing is no problem, but the twisting and carrying anything with significant weight I can't do - heavy laundry baskets or boxes I can't carry if they need two hands. I really am WAY over do for a check up with my doctor so maybe this will be the thing to get me to make an appointment. Maybe I ask her about something to help me sleep as well. Unless I take some Simply Sleep, I am a super restless sleeper. It doesn't seem to be a huge problem, because if I take something I can sleep easily, but I worry that I'm becoming dependent on it.