Sorry for being MIA for the past two days, but as the subject line states, I had to take an injury time out. Indeed, I have suffered the first critical injury of the season. It all started like this...
We were having a seminary picnic Wednesday night (brats, dogs, frisbees - thrown, not eaten), and I'm not sure exactly how it happened except to say that it involved a cooler, a frozen block of ice, and a bottle of water, but I ripped off the top half of my thumbnail. Not entirely, mind you - it was still holding on at the edge - but the carnage was great enough to cause the four guys who were standing by me to fold like cheap suits. Bummer, eh? I wanted to snap a picture of it to post on the blog, but nobody would look at it long enough to take the picture (what a bunch of babies!), and my spare hand was occupied with containing the river of blood that was pouring from the end of my thumb. Still, that would have been COOL!
Anyhoo...we got a bottle of superglue and epoxied the nail back in place. Yes, it stung like a bear and I used all of my least pretty words, but now it's nearly right as rain! I have to say, I'm very impressed by the restorative properties of my thumb. So I will not be going on the injured reserve list - I just needed to take an injury time out followed by the mandatory one-play stint on the sidelines. But I'm back in the game now. It's all good.
So come back tomorrow and we'll open this week's mailbag.
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2 comments:
Dawn I too have suffered from a missing thumbnail. I received mine while doing the laundry. Go figure!
I congratulate you on finishing your ords and still being mentally sound. Or are you? Good luck for the rest of the semester. I look forward to your wonderful sense of humor and the retelling of the day's activities.
Thanks, Cathy! I look forward to sharing the little oddities of my days with all of you. It's nice to have a reason to write something that's non-academic for a change. And this is really, REALLY non-academic!
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