this hand or that ?

My six-year-old son came running into the house, crying and shaking his right hand. Sobbing, he told me he had been bouncing the basketball and it had bounced into the end of his fingers. From the way he was crying, I knew he just needed a kiss-it- better cure. His crying subsided and as he turned to go back outside, he said absently, "...or was it this hand?"