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x-posted from my IJ
UPDATE: Since I never actually announced it here...
Tuesday evening I was walking the dogs and attempting to change my ringtone. At the same time. Meaning both dogs in one hand, phone in the other. In theory, this is ordinarily an okay thing. In practice, the little yapper dog across the street starts barking his brain out. Murphy tries to go after him, and in my effort to put the leash back in the other hand, he slips away and runs off. I go across the street to get him but I still have Maddie who is not so much friendly and I have to keep her away from the neighbors and their dogs while still getting Murphy. I grabbed the first thing I could...which was the chord on his leash. His retractable leash. They come with a warning that says, 'don't touch the chord'. They say that for a reason. I grab it, Murphy keeps running, and SLICE. I have two gaping holes in my hand and other places where it looks burnt but not open.
So my hand is wrapped in gauze and then more gauze and tape and loads of antibiotic cream. Which will help it heal (we hope) and help relieve the pain (we assume, but this is a lie). HOWEVER it also slows my typing down considerably. It also limits tons of other things and makes others totally awkward. Eating soup with my left hand is no fun and I rarely have to use a pen but I have today and it's awful. I haven't gone to the doctor (as my insurance doesn't kick in till October 1) and while I COULD go to the Urgent Care clinic, I am not looking forward to paying out-of-pocket until AFLAC reimburses me. Especially if it turns out to be nothing other than what I'm doing; keep it from getting infected and then wait for the skin to heal over.
On that note, please to be forgiving slowness in replies, lack of comments (I AM reading, you guys are what I do when bored!), and rarity of entries. I have a few threads in-progress and that is slow-going as it is. Worse from the work computer, oddly enough, raised keyboards seem to require more flexibility and range of motion. And let's not even get into the mouse.
Now we are all updated! That was more fun in theory.
UPDATE: Since I never actually announced it here...
Tuesday evening I was walking the dogs and attempting to change my ringtone. At the same time. Meaning both dogs in one hand, phone in the other. In theory, this is ordinarily an okay thing. In practice, the little yapper dog across the street starts barking his brain out. Murphy tries to go after him, and in my effort to put the leash back in the other hand, he slips away and runs off. I go across the street to get him but I still have Maddie who is not so much friendly and I have to keep her away from the neighbors and their dogs while still getting Murphy. I grabbed the first thing I could...which was the chord on his leash. His retractable leash. They come with a warning that says, 'don't touch the chord'. They say that for a reason. I grab it, Murphy keeps running, and SLICE. I have two gaping holes in my hand and other places where it looks burnt but not open.
So my hand is wrapped in gauze and then more gauze and tape and loads of antibiotic cream. Which will help it heal (we hope) and help relieve the pain (we assume, but this is a lie). HOWEVER it also slows my typing down considerably. It also limits tons of other things and makes others totally awkward. Eating soup with my left hand is no fun and I rarely have to use a pen but I have today and it's awful. I haven't gone to the doctor (as my insurance doesn't kick in till October 1) and while I COULD go to the Urgent Care clinic, I am not looking forward to paying out-of-pocket until AFLAC reimburses me. Especially if it turns out to be nothing other than what I'm doing; keep it from getting infected and then wait for the skin to heal over.
On that note, please to be forgiving slowness in replies, lack of comments (I AM reading, you guys are what I do when bored!), and rarity of entries. I have a few threads in-progress and that is slow-going as it is. Worse from the work computer, oddly enough, raised keyboards seem to require more flexibility and range of motion. And let's not even get into the mouse.
Now we are all updated! That was more fun in theory.