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jecca_mehlota) wrote2008-09-26 10:52 pm
jecca_mehlota) wrote2008-09-26 10:52 pm
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Trilobites = PAIN = appropriate!
I nearly took the tip of my left middle finger off today! How?! ... that really, really is the question.
I was at work! I set up a rack of bread to bake (bread is fairly nonlethal though, frighteningly enough, there have been a few instances where I've torn my gloves on the sharp edges of baked loaves) and wheeled it over to the oven... The oven was too cold, so I adjusted the temperature and went over to the table to slice the Italian bread to make it into garlic bread... Picked up the knife and started sawing at a loaf, brought up my left hand to hold the bread in place, and noticed as I reached for the bread... there is a lot of red in my glove!
You know I've been there too long, or am just very strange, because my first thought was nothing like, 'I'm bleeding!' It was, instead, 'Contaminant!!' and I pulled my hand away very quickly! And then it caught up to me that I was bleeding. The glove wasn't torn, but a flap of skin near the edge of the nail had ... come up somehow?
Well, that's not good. I rinsed the gash, grabbed some paper towels, looked about for a bandage and found nothing, and so wandered off to ask the managers if we had bandaids (for the employees to use, not for sale).
My favourite manager went to get me one, but the ooze of blood wasn't stopping, so we couldn't really apply it. We went and talked to some other people, ended up having to fill out some forms about on the job injuries (that was fun. How can you fill out forms asking for the cause when you honestly have no idea what happened? Lessee... one minute I was fine, and then I was bleeding into my glove), and then I was told to sit and wait for the bleeding to stop because someone else could take care of things in the bakery.
And the store health person was called in to come look at it, and by the time she arrived I'd been sitting in the break room for an hour trying to get the oozing to stop.
Paper towels are crap for that. I'd sit applying pressure for a while, then have the shift the towel because, hey, bloody mess, and whenever I did that, the paper would stick and I'd upset the skin and it's start oozing fresh all over again.
BUT YEAH ANYWAY she showed up and was very nice, and she had gauze, and it all worked much better then, the bleeding stopped a few minutes after she started holding the gauze to it.
(She also, I found out after we had me all bandaged up and it had started to hurt, does Reiki, which probably helped. Also, it did stop the throbbing pain when she applied it again after bandaging my poor finger up. ...Say what you will, but this was the third or fourth time I've had someone use Reiki on me, and it's worked each time. Though I've never had it for anything major. This, at a Girl Scout event where a Reiki specialist was there and gave everyone a ... sample or whatever, and in a classroom where one of my classmates practiced it and, again, used it on the class... think there might've been another, can't be sure. And, of course, I've never had it for anything major, but for the minor scrapes and such? It's at least appeared to have been effective.)
...Then I had to go back to work, of course, and it opened up a little, but it had stopped again by the time I got home. Had mom help me rebandage it, though, because bloody bandages aren't good to keep on.
(Maybe oddly, the whole thing has been largely painless. Didn't hurt at first, throbbed briefly, but hasn't bothered me since.)
That's enough of that.
I've been watching Supernatural as it shows! WITH COMMERCIALS. ew. But parents have a show on at the same time, so really, we've been recording it and then I watch it on Friday and can fast-forward through the advertising. No spoilers from me beyond "NOT SURE WHAT TO MAKE OF SOME OF THIS WOAH" and also "YAAAAAAAAAAAAAY!" Also, I really like Mr. Newguy. (OBVIOUSLY THAT IS NOT ACTUALLY HIS NAME, but his name is probably spoilery and on the off chance anyone reading this hasn't seen it yet and wants to, I'll, you know, not say it.)
(And MAN! I'd totally love to say more but it's awkward to type without that finger and I keep trying to use it and it kinda hurts whenever I slam the giant, gauzey-wrapped mess down on the keys 'cause, you know, in the habit of using that finger...)
Harvest Market tomorrow! <3
I was at work! I set up a rack of bread to bake (bread is fairly nonlethal though, frighteningly enough, there have been a few instances where I've torn my gloves on the sharp edges of baked loaves) and wheeled it over to the oven... The oven was too cold, so I adjusted the temperature and went over to the table to slice the Italian bread to make it into garlic bread... Picked up the knife and started sawing at a loaf, brought up my left hand to hold the bread in place, and noticed as I reached for the bread... there is a lot of red in my glove!
You know I've been there too long, or am just very strange, because my first thought was nothing like, 'I'm bleeding!' It was, instead, 'Contaminant!!' and I pulled my hand away very quickly! And then it caught up to me that I was bleeding. The glove wasn't torn, but a flap of skin near the edge of the nail had ... come up somehow?
Well, that's not good. I rinsed the gash, grabbed some paper towels, looked about for a bandage and found nothing, and so wandered off to ask the managers if we had bandaids (for the employees to use, not for sale).
My favourite manager went to get me one, but the ooze of blood wasn't stopping, so we couldn't really apply it. We went and talked to some other people, ended up having to fill out some forms about on the job injuries (that was fun. How can you fill out forms asking for the cause when you honestly have no idea what happened? Lessee... one minute I was fine, and then I was bleeding into my glove), and then I was told to sit and wait for the bleeding to stop because someone else could take care of things in the bakery.
And the store health person was called in to come look at it, and by the time she arrived I'd been sitting in the break room for an hour trying to get the oozing to stop.
Paper towels are crap for that. I'd sit applying pressure for a while, then have the shift the towel because, hey, bloody mess, and whenever I did that, the paper would stick and I'd upset the skin and it's start oozing fresh all over again.
BUT YEAH ANYWAY she showed up and was very nice, and she had gauze, and it all worked much better then, the bleeding stopped a few minutes after she started holding the gauze to it.
(She also, I found out after we had me all bandaged up and it had started to hurt, does Reiki, which probably helped. Also, it did stop the throbbing pain when she applied it again after bandaging my poor finger up. ...Say what you will, but this was the third or fourth time I've had someone use Reiki on me, and it's worked each time. Though I've never had it for anything major. This, at a Girl Scout event where a Reiki specialist was there and gave everyone a ... sample or whatever, and in a classroom where one of my classmates practiced it and, again, used it on the class... think there might've been another, can't be sure. And, of course, I've never had it for anything major, but for the minor scrapes and such? It's at least appeared to have been effective.)
...Then I had to go back to work, of course, and it opened up a little, but it had stopped again by the time I got home. Had mom help me rebandage it, though, because bloody bandages aren't good to keep on.
(Maybe oddly, the whole thing has been largely painless. Didn't hurt at first, throbbed briefly, but hasn't bothered me since.)
That's enough of that.
I've been watching Supernatural as it shows! WITH COMMERCIALS. ew. But parents have a show on at the same time, so really, we've been recording it and then I watch it on Friday and can fast-forward through the advertising. No spoilers from me beyond "NOT SURE WHAT TO MAKE OF SOME OF THIS WOAH" and also "YAAAAAAAAAAAAAY!" Also, I really like Mr. Newguy. (OBVIOUSLY THAT IS NOT ACTUALLY HIS NAME, but his name is probably spoilery and on the off chance anyone reading this hasn't seen it yet and wants to, I'll, you know, not say it.)
(And MAN! I'd totally love to say more but it's awkward to type without that finger and I keep trying to use it and it kinda hurts whenever I slam the giant, gauzey-wrapped mess down on the keys 'cause, you know, in the habit of using that finger...)
Harvest Market tomorrow! <3