Posted 11-20-2008 at 07:51 AM by Wordstreamer (When did we get a Pajama Event?)
[I][FONT="Book Antiqua"][SIZE="3"][COLOR="DarkOrchid"]So yeah. I bought an exacto knife today (yesterday, now). Useful things to have--at least in theory. I lost my old one (I think that I got rid of it, honestly, because the blades kept falling out and wouldn't actually cut through anything). Sooo. I buy it. I've managed to get it out of the packaging, and then--there's a safety lid. Well, good. Except it's STUCK on the thing. So I try to twist it off, and it just comes off with the blade. So I'm carefully trying to pull it off--and as you might have noticed, often when pulling things, your hand makes a slight jerk in the opposite direction when you're done.
Yeah. Well, it did. I cut through the fat tissue in my finger (not through the tendon, though), and it bled a LOT. Very creepy-looking. Bleck. Not to mention, I rode the bus out to the place where I was going, didn't have a cell phone, etc. So I was stuck there for about an hour and didn't get to a hospital until about two hours after I'd sliced it. Seriously; DEEP. It wouldn't stop bleeding, and it didn't help that it was right on a knuckle. I tend to bend my fingers a lot (typing, playing the piano, general movement), and so now I have a splint. Which I think doesn't actually keep the thing completely straight, but straight enough to keep it from bleeding a lot.
I realize I may sound like a total wimp, but this is the worst (physically) that's ever happened. And I also didn't bitch a lot about it at the time. Although it did hurt (especially whenever I moved it. Or put anything, like water, on it). Sooo, yeah. Not to mention that I'm inexplicably tired and yet cannot fall asleep.
Although I think that last bit has to do with my caffeine intake.[/COLOR][/SIZE][/FONT][/I]
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