for want of a nail

[sergebroom]

Note to self... When trimming the past-their-bloom ends of plants in the flower beds, make sure that the hand holding the cutters doesn't come too fast and too close to the hand holding a bunch of plants together. If not for the resistance offered by my index's nail, the cutters would probably have sliced off the very tip of my left index. That was last evening and I had washed the wound under hot water because those cutters probably aren't the most hygienic of blades. This morning, the cut appears to be healing well. No tenderness, no swelling. No change in body temperature. It looks like things will be ok.

Comments

[jongibbs.livejournal.com]

I'm glad the cut wasn't too deep.

Also, the well-chosen icon is duly noted :)

[serge-lj.livejournal.com]

I'm glad too. I heal pretty well (thus the choice of icon), but, if infection had set in, that'd have messed up my plans of flying to Canada this coming Thursday.

[evilrooster.livejournal.com]

Look, I have a monopoly on finger-slicing around here, between the machete incident when I was twelve (scar under the left thumbnail) and the constant bookbinding knife-and-ruler moments. Don't you go edging in. Find some other disaster, willya?

[serge-lj.livejournal.com]

At least you didn't ask me not to cut in on your disaster turf. My own domain in my later years so far has involved the pinching of fingertips between hard objects, with subsequent fall and regrowth of the nearby nail.