Well, I had an exciting afternoon. I had used my deli slicer to make a huge meat & cheese platter for work tomorrow; I'm always very careful with it, especially when cleaning the blade.
Unfortunately, in a moment of mental abstraction I put the blade guard on backwards, then proceeded to gouge a huge chunk out of my thumb and put an 1-1/2 inch gash in my index finger when I was putting it away---on my right hand, no less. Now I know what the bone in my thumb looks like.
Went to the emergency room for stitches. The index finger will be fine, but the chunk from the thumb is iffy. The anesthetic has worn off and MAN does it hurt! Can't use right hand for much, because every time I do, the thumb starts bleeding profusely.
The doctor put a latex glove on my hand and taped it on at the wrist. Every time the thumb bleeds, the glove fills with blood and starts oozing out at my wrist. Changing the glove is super-gory with blood flying everywhere. The latex gloves he gave me are lavender-colored, which I'm sure I'll take NO shit for at work tomorrow, LOL.
It's difficult to do things without the use of the all-important thumb/index finger. And my freaking house looks like the shower scene from Psycho. I was wearing gym shorts and a white T-shirt when it happened, and there was no way I was going to the ER dressed like that, so I managed to get a shirt and jeans on---both appropriately bloodied---but walking around my kitchen, dining room, bedroom and bathroom upon my return, I realize how much I was bleeding; You'd think a murder had been committed!
Good thing I still have a box of Tide Coldwater in the house! What a memorable way to enter my fifth decade.
Unfortunately, in a moment of mental abstraction I put the blade guard on backwards, then proceeded to gouge a huge chunk out of my thumb and put an 1-1/2 inch gash in my index finger when I was putting it away---on my right hand, no less. Now I know what the bone in my thumb looks like.
Went to the emergency room for stitches. The index finger will be fine, but the chunk from the thumb is iffy. The anesthetic has worn off and MAN does it hurt! Can't use right hand for much, because every time I do, the thumb starts bleeding profusely.
The doctor put a latex glove on my hand and taped it on at the wrist. Every time the thumb bleeds, the glove fills with blood and starts oozing out at my wrist. Changing the glove is super-gory with blood flying everywhere. The latex gloves he gave me are lavender-colored, which I'm sure I'll take NO shit for at work tomorrow, LOL.
It's difficult to do things without the use of the all-important thumb/index finger. And my freaking house looks like the shower scene from Psycho. I was wearing gym shorts and a white T-shirt when it happened, and there was no way I was going to the ER dressed like that, so I managed to get a shirt and jeans on---both appropriately bloodied---but walking around my kitchen, dining room, bedroom and bathroom upon my return, I realize how much I was bleeding; You'd think a murder had been committed!
Good thing I still have a box of Tide Coldwater in the house! What a memorable way to enter my fifth decade.
