I was feeding and watering. And right before I carried the full water buckets, I thought to myself that the chickens in the mobile pen sure could use a nice new spot of land to peck around on. So, I grab a hold of one corner...and Yank! And then I grab a a hold of the other corner...and ... SLICE!
OH.MY.GAH. My hand slipped and my thumb slid down the length of the edge of the tin and it sliced through my finger. I took one look and thought, dang....this might need a bandaid....or two. I run in the house and yell for one of the kids to get me a washcloth...and then I venture a look. EW. It was gaping open...and relatively deep. DANG IT. I get my daughter to call the closest person...my mother-in-law and she comes down to have a look see. She says ...that might need stitches. And I was kinda thinking maybe, BUT I had class that night. (because I'm going back to school full time to finish my degree...still homeschooling, though) And I didn't want to miss class because I needed to miss a night in March... so, I was thinking, What the heck... we can put a butterfly closure thing on it and it'll hold it together probably. Yeah.
I called my personal nurse (love my nurse friends) and asked her opinion. She said I probably needed a tetanus shot. Seriously? I mean the tin wasn't rusty. Apparently, that doesn't matter. DANG again.
So, I decide to go to class and go by Urgent Care afterwards...just to see. Only I'm walking into school and the wound pops open and now I have blood dripping off my fingers. And for some reason, people give me weird looks for this. And a lady asks me if I need stitches. As if... So, I meet up with my Professor and tell her I might need to go have my thumb looked at...which she urges with much passion... LOL... and I go to Urgent Care. Turns out, I needed four stitches and a tetanus shot. The nurse looks at my finger and says, "Did you *really* think that butterfly was going to hold it?" Well....yeah?
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