Sticks out like a sore...

[madbaker]

If my typing is a bit off over the next week or so, it's because I sliced off a chunk of my thumb Saturday.

Nothing too major - just took a piece out of the ball. It's bandaged up and it will heal eventually. I bled like a stuck pig, though. Amazing how difficult it is to do things wihtout a thumb, even when it's on the non-dominant hand...

Comments

[corva.livejournal.com]

Ack! How did you come to do this? My grandmother had a run in with a jicama a few weeks back and came away the worse for it with a very similar injury.

Heal, and be careful with yourself.

how?

[madbaker.livejournal.com]

The usual way. I was chopping an onion for our Saturday breakfast pesto scramble, and... chunk. One extra bit of meat to go into the mix, order up!

Re: how?

[corva.livejournal.com]

The usual way? One should know do this sort of thing often enough to have a "usual way".

Re: how?

[madbaker.livejournal.com]

This was a more extreme version of the not-uncommon "chop chop -ouch".

Usually it's just a nick rather than a full-on gouge.

[falzalot.livejournal.com]

When I lived in Japan, I managed to slice off the tip of my middle finger about 3 times while chopping cabbage. After that, my roommate wouldn't let me use the handy-dandy insta-chopper thang anymore.

But yeah. OUCH.

[madbaker.livejournal.com]

(edited to correct size of wound)

The night before I was due to fly to France for a semester, I took a 1/2" chunk out of the same thumb. With a wire cheese slicer.

It made for a most uncomfortable flight - as well as trying to juggle three bags, since wheeled luggage hadn't made many inroads.

I don't use that style of cheese slicer anymore.