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While working on my first project to cross off the list, I hurt my finger. Bad. I don't know if it is the fact that I have been crash dieting or that I am a weenie, but I almost threw up. Then I thought "that's gonna leave a mark". My husband I were working on converting an unused storage room in the shop to a garden shed with a workbench, when somehow a 12 foot long 2x4 smashed it. Before I even had a chance to explain what just happened it had started to darken. Thank goodness it wasn't the hand I clean teeth with. That would have been hard to explain.... why sick has nothing to do with illness and everything to do with a smashed finger. Forgive the crummy fingernail polish but I also pulled early spring weeds. Just thought I would share my newest owie. I am a klutz. Boy, my husband felt bad.
I know that really hurt. Hope you feel better soon. I seldom get many bad boo-boos, but recently fell hard on my knee. It was so humiliating for a 50 year old to have a skinned knee!!!
ReplyDeleteOUCH!!!!! Smashing fingers is the worst! I havent done it in awhile though. I hope ya feel better.
ReplyDeleteI slammed my finger in a car door a few springs ago. I had to open the door to get it out. Split my finger tip open. Blood came pooring out and boy did i cry. The pain that shoots up your hand to your elbow is incredible!
Yup-ouch!
ReplyDeleteOhh,that hurts me just looking at it Heather! I know it probably still throbs. You'll probably lose that nail, eventually. Your polish and your nails look beautiful and I'd never know they were digging in dirt & doing such hard work. My nails are so thin that they tare (tear?)SP./Anyway, my daughter had a huge, metal door slam on her toe as we were leaving a fitness center, a few yrs. ago. She screamed and it was just horrible. We finally got to an emergency clinic because part of her nail was hanging and the whole thing was just awful. They had to give her a needle in her toenail to numb it (which also about killed her), then they pulled the whole toenail out! Eventually, it did grow back...but ouch...I hope you can garden with it without too much pain!
ReplyDeleteYikes! Reminds me of an incident years ago. Without thinking, I similarly had my finger in the wrong place at the wrong time. Talk about agony. I'm not usually a wuss but it throbbed for hours and continued to hurt for days. I really wondered if I was going to lose the tip of my finger, like gangrene or something. And right after it happened, wouldn't you know it, the stupid burglar alarm went off. We'd just moved here and I didn't have a clue what to do to shut the .... thing off. My ears were ringing and my finger was throbbing. We've since disconnected it. But I'll never forget that infamous day. I feel for you. Here's to a speedy recovery.
ReplyDeleteI usually do something like that just as I'm telling myself not to. Be careful until it heals. Everything you do will cause you to hit it over and over.
ReplyDeleteI just looked at this picture and realized it doesn't look that bad. In relation to how much it hurts is should be falling off by now:-D Maybe next time I won't be such a klutz and the right hand will watch what the left hand is doing, so to speak. The nail woman at the hair salon told me I needed to poke a hole in the nail to relieve the pressure. I can't even touch it so I doubt that is going to happen. I may have another "spell" haha.
ReplyDeleteHello Heather! Thank you for your welcome message on blotanical. Shocking to see this picture (your finger!). Hope you get better soon.Btw, I really like your blog layout. Will pick up some ideas from here.Ok? Steph from stephgreenspace.blogspot.com
ReplyDeleteOuch! That looks painful. (And it resembles my big toe.)
ReplyDeleteGood Lord Heather that looks like it HURT!! :)
ReplyDeleteYou poor girl. Heather, that was nasty accident. Nothing hurts quite as much as smashing your fingers, I have had my share of having my fingers in a place where they should not have been and suffered the consequences.
ReplyDeleteMy sympathies. :-( I did that last year when I was pounding in a metal fencepost for a Tomato support. Only it was the index finger of my RIGHT hand. I got nauseated and nearly passed out, it hurt so much. I lost the nail and a new one grew in, but the tip of that finger is still partially numb.
ReplyDeleteLesson learned? Wait for help and don't try to do things on my own. Me holding the post while Hubbie pounds works much better. :-)
Ouch!! I would have cried! Hope you feel better soon!
ReplyDeleteHeather, the bright side..no cooking and cleaning for a while...hey, that sounds like a legitimate excuse to me!...lol..hope that finger's feeling better!
ReplyDeleteLynn
Heather, no doubt you were faint from hunger when this incident took place. Please be careful! I've also heard that a hole in the fingernail will relieve the pressure, but I'd never have the nerve to do that. I better go now. Reading all these horror stories has left me a little lightheaded.
ReplyDeleteThank you all for being so nice about my self inflicted wound. I finally had to drill a hole in the nail last night. The swelling kept getting worse. It did finally go down a bit after relieving some pressure via my new nail hole. That process wasn't nearly as bad as it sounded. Now maybe I will be on the mend. :-D
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Holy moly! I know that had to her - gave me a shudder just looking at it!. And to read you had to drill a hole in the nail. *shudder* Even if it isn't as bad as it sounds.
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