I've been wishing, the past couple of months, that I could take a few days, maybe a week off of work.
Well, I got my wish, but only because I was in too much pain to do said work. :P I got a glob of hot glue on my finger. Bad enough, but when I tried to pull it off so it wouldn't burn too badly, it ripped the skin of my finger off as well. The whole fingertip, a patch just smaller than a dime, is completely skinless. And the tissue under it was burned.
It hurt like HELL at first. Just washing it out with saline made me literally cry with pain. Putting disinfectant on it just about made me scream. I couldn't get a bandage on it at all, we had to sort of encapsulate it in a bubble of gauze that didn't actually touch it.
I did get some nice pain pills, so eventually I was okay. But that was on Monday and I still haven't properly healed up, it's still skinless, just scabbed over. I'm sort of back to work today, but still doing a lot of things one-handed, as bumping it hurts like heck. Typing is a nuisance, can't play the piano, doing the dishes is annoying, and generally it's interfering with everything.
So yeah. Be careful what you wish for.
Well, I got my wish, but only because I was in too much pain to do said work. :P I got a glob of hot glue on my finger. Bad enough, but when I tried to pull it off so it wouldn't burn too badly, it ripped the skin of my finger off as well. The whole fingertip, a patch just smaller than a dime, is completely skinless. And the tissue under it was burned.
It hurt like HELL at first. Just washing it out with saline made me literally cry with pain. Putting disinfectant on it just about made me scream. I couldn't get a bandage on it at all, we had to sort of encapsulate it in a bubble of gauze that didn't actually touch it.
I did get some nice pain pills, so eventually I was okay. But that was on Monday and I still haven't properly healed up, it's still skinless, just scabbed over. I'm sort of back to work today, but still doing a lot of things one-handed, as bumping it hurts like heck. Typing is a nuisance, can't play the piano, doing the dishes is annoying, and generally it's interfering with everything.
So yeah. Be careful what you wish for.
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