This time it was my turn. While cleaning the dinner dishes last night, I sliced the top of my left index finger while cleaning one of our lovely Henckels knives. My hand just slipped while washing it – I sliced the tip off of the rubber glove I was wearing (I wear them so I can get the water really hot). It started bleeding right away, so I ran it under some water and put a few paper towels over it to stop the bleeding. I had Karen put some ice in a baggie, which I put over the paper towels. After a few minutes, I took a look at my finger and saw that the cut was fairly deep.
Karen went to get Neighbor Bob to look at it, since she didn’t want to. He took a quick look and agreed with me that we should go to the hospital. Of course, with my luck, this all occurred while Victoria was taking her shower. Karen helped me put a gauze pad over the cut and we taped it on. Karen stayed home with Victoria while Bob comitted several traffic violations in getting me to the hospital. Luckily for me, the ER was not crowded, and someone looked at me right away. Since I wasn’t bleeding throught the gauze pad, they didn’t want to take it off right away. Long wait made short: after about two hours and two stitches in the first knuckle, I was free to go. Now I have two stitches, a gauze pad, and some FlexWrap to hold everything in place and to prevent me from reopening the cut.
Of course, being left-handed creates a few problems. One of which is typing, which I seem to be OK with this morning. We’ll see how much typing I have to do at work. There will be a variety of other tasks that will be more difficult, like shaving and showering. At least I get to get the bandage wet and redo it later.
