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beatrice_otter) wrote2009-06-12 05:46 pm
beatrice_otter) wrote2009-06-12 05:46 pm
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This is kind of embarrassing ...
Day before yesterday, I was making dinner--chicken rice bake, easy recipe, tastes great. It calls for a can of cream of mushroom soup, and one of cream of chicken. You know those pop-tab lids Campbells has gone to the last couple of years to make them "easy to open"? And are approximately ten times harder to open that just using a simple can opener? Yeah. I sliced my finger open when that sucker finally came off. It bled a lot, but I got a band-aid on it and didn't think much about it.
This morning I took the band-aid off, and decided I needed to see the doctor.
Definitely should have been stitched. (It's bigger than I thought it was. There was too much blood to see the cut clearly. Looking back, maybe that should have been a clue. Possibly.) It's deep. It'll take a long time to heal. Because of where it's located, if I move the finger too much it's likely to come open, so I'm not to move the finger. Nor do anything that might get it dirty. So no yardwork or washing pots by hand for the next few weeks unless I can do it one-handed. (Did I mention that my "rent" for living at home over the summer is a certain number of hours of yardwork per month?)
Oh, and if that's not enough, the reason the tip of that finger feels slightly odd is that I probably cut through a few of the surface nerves. But I still have full range of motion and feeling (it feels weird, but I can feel), so it's probably very slight nerve damage which will heal.
From opening a %$&! can of soup.
This morning I took the band-aid off, and decided I needed to see the doctor.
Definitely should have been stitched. (It's bigger than I thought it was. There was too much blood to see the cut clearly. Looking back, maybe that should have been a clue. Possibly.) It's deep. It'll take a long time to heal. Because of where it's located, if I move the finger too much it's likely to come open, so I'm not to move the finger. Nor do anything that might get it dirty. So no yardwork or washing pots by hand for the next few weeks unless I can do it one-handed. (Did I mention that my "rent" for living at home over the summer is a certain number of hours of yardwork per month?)
Oh, and if that's not enough, the reason the tip of that finger feels slightly odd is that I probably cut through a few of the surface nerves. But I still have full range of motion and feeling (it feels weird, but I can feel), so it's probably very slight nerve damage which will heal.
From opening a %$&! can of soup.