Sweet Gummi Mary! It's a good thing Mrs. HM is no longer taking blood-thinner medication! Six months of that was enough, back around 2014, after a bout of multiple bilateral pulmonary embolisms. Had I still been on that poison Xarelto, I could have exsanguinated last week!
I was going about my business, sitting at the kitchen table, writing out a check to pay the yearly insurance bill for our 4-wheeler that Farmer H never rides anymore. It's around $80 to insure that mechanical statue that resides under the back porch of the Mansion.
Anyhoo... as I licked the envelope, I got a paper cut ON MY LIP! Yes. It WAS painful!
Only a couple days later, I re-opened the large manila-sized white envelope that held our tax bills for 2024. Yes. It required such a large envelope, because it contained 11 bills. We're apparently land barons.
Anyhoo... as I pulled those bills out to separate the payment stub portion from the bigger portion, I got a paper cut on my left index finger. Right in the crease between the pointer tip and the middle section. It hurts like fire, even now, when I first step under the shower water. Don't get me started on washing dishes.
As if the bill-paying chore wasn't enough to (thankfully-not) kill me, Jack jumped up as I was going down the porch steps to pet him, and gouged a hole in the next-to-knuckle section of that very same left index finger. That gaping wound dripped all through the garage, and I had to bind a Puffs With Lotion around it to spare T-Hoe's leather seats on the way to down. Jack has some mighty sturdy diggin' claws from his dachshund half.
Most of you will be happy to learn that I have survived these injuries to type again.
4 comments:
I could understand a paper cut on your tongue from the envelope licking but how did the lip get in the way? I had my own paper cut recently, the finger was stinging and itching but I couldn't see the cut at all, so I dabbed the whole section with undiluted antiseptic (dettol) which stung a LOT on the cut so I finally knew just where it was, but as it dried the itch and sting wet away.
A claw cut would hurt more and I'm glad you had a puffs with lotion to wrap around that.
I was licking the envelope from left to right, and the flap was trying to close. The edge hit my upper lip on the right side of my mouth, almost to the corner, which would have been worse.
I haven't heard of that antiseptic. My finger cut was still stinging when I washed dishes this morning. I guess I keep bending it and pulling the gap apart as I grasp things. It, too, is not visible, but I certainly feel it.
The claw hole has scabbed over nicely, and I can see it, but not feel it.
any other antiseptic will do the job, the stinging indicates germs are setting up in there (according to doctor and pharmacists here) so it's best to disinfect right away.
River,
I was more worried about the dog hole (as The Pony would call it) from Jack's dirty claw. It's not like he has regular manicures! But that one just closed up without a bandaid or any treatment, once the blood stopped flowing into the Puffs.
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