various minor injuries...

[senoritafish]

1. Because powers that be are afraid one of us is going to run amok (which might not be an unlikely scenario, given the frustration of pending layoffs and monetary woes hamstringing most of us), someone went through all the breakroom drawers and removed all the knives, except for plastic ones It makes it rather inconvenient to slice your bagel, or open one of those damned frozen meals before you heat it. Some of us carry pocket knives (which are tools, not weapons) as a workaround. After slicing my semi-frozen chile relleno so it would fit in my regulation non-plastic microwavable bowl, I went to clean off my knife blade before folding it and putting it back in my pocket. I guess I was gripping it a little too tightly, because it sliced right through the paper napkin and into the pad of my ring fingertip.



2. I left a band-aid on said finger too long and after several hand washings, I now have nice white wrinkled ring around my finger.



3. I looked down at my right big toe the night before last, and noticed it was covered with dried blood. After taking my sandals off and cleaning up the damage, I found that I must have run my toe into something without noticing and knocked about a quarter inch chunk out of my toenail, below the quick. Normally this would hurt like hell, but I never noticed it.



4. I noticed the back of my knee was itchy and I thought it was a mosquito bite, until I looked at it and noticed it was a red scaly patch. John looked at it and said, "Nope, that's ringworm - start puttin' that athlete's foot cream on it twice day." Thanks Angus. He had it a couple of months ago, though. Where did I pick it up from?


5. A couple of weeks ago, my eyelids started getting red, puffy and would peel every once in while. I thought I had gotten too much sun the day before. It went in cycles; red, puffy, peely, flaky, clear, red, puffy,... One morning I woke up looking like a basset hound and I called for a doctor appointment. She looked at me and said it was either eczema or an allergy (I can't think to what), and gave me some Allegra samples and a prescription which my pharmacy wouldn't fill because my insurance doesn't cover it. Grr. I called the doctor about the prescription and never heard anything back. It seems to have mostly cleared up except for some residual flakiness and wrinkles at the inside corners of my eyes that I didn't have before. Sigh. I'm beginning to see why my mother started wearing makeup in her forties, when she had seldom worn it before.

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[metalmensch.livejournal.com]

When I was a kidlet, my eyes swole shut on a rather regular basis. It's definitely annoying but easy to fix. Fix #1: try to keep the windows in your bedroom closed at all times to reduce the allergens coming in (I was allergic to night time bloomers, and thus would wake up with no vision whatsoever.) Fix #2: when the eyes ARE swollen shut, put an icecold washcloth on the eyes until you can open them then follow that up with calamine lotion and reapply the calamine every 3 hours until it goes away. Fix #3: go to an allergist and get an allergy test (including food allergies) and cut out some of the food allergies.

Hopefully everything clears up soon. I know how miserable it is to be minorly wounded during the summer.

[senoritafish.livejournal.com]

Normally I wouldn't consider myself a very allergic person, although I do get a bit of hay fever every once in a while. The only thing I can think of that I might done differently is I processed a squid sample that was a little ripe, and I might have rubbed my eyes while wearing latex gloves. Murphy's Lsw, you know, the minute your hands get covered with gook, your face starts getting itchy.

In any case, it never got quite bad enough that my eyes were completely closed, I just noticed my upper eyelids were a bit droopy. It was definitely noticable to other people. They look a bit like I'm wearing orange eyeshadow now. I wondering if the wrinkles are going to go away or I stretched the skin permanently by rubbing it. Sounds vain I know, but they really weren't there so much before.

You're probably right about the nighttime stuff - unfortunately, keeping the windows closed would be unbearably stuffy. We should have air conditioning, I suppose, at least to filter the air for John's asthma, but haven't got it yet. It seems we don't need most of the time, because we're a mile from the beach; but there are these days in July and August....

And most of the other stuff has almost healed already. It just piled up quickly. Thanks for the wishes. ;)

[angelsmum.livejournal.com]

Maybe the wrinkles look worse because the skin is dryer??

[senoritafish.livejournal.com]

Could be; I suppose I should try something on it, but I was kind of waiting for that prescription, which I now appears I am not going to get/maybe don't need.

I don't really use much in the way of stuff on my face normally. It just sort of seems like the wrinkle fairy came by one night and said "Ok, you're 40 now - here's what I owe you!" *slap - all at once*

Granted, I had some already, but it seems like they doubled in the space of a few weeks.

Eh, well. Deal, Leeanne. ;p

[angelsmum.livejournal.com]

Wrinkles suck.

[ex-lnorigb774.livejournal.com]

a bunch of minor crap IS equal to one big long vent!

ftr, jfyi, imho.

*weg*

~

[senoritafish.livejournal.com]

Sorry to subject you to that. (rueful smile) I'm really not as bitchy as I sound.

Sorry, I'm a bit slow on the txt abbrevations. I know imho, and I'm guessing wicked evil grin (?), but the others?

[ex-lnorigb774.livejournal.com]

ftr=for the record

jfyi=just for yr information...

was just trying to get you to smile!

~

[senoritafish.livejournal.com]

I did anyway. :)

[senoritafish.livejournal.com]

NoNONOnONO!
Where did you go? I just saw you post this morning, didn't I?

[bakayaro-onna.livejournal.com]

I get a lot of irritating things like that too. It annoying as hell.

Hope you get all cleared up soon!

If humour is good medicine, check your email...

[senoritafish.livejournal.com]

aah, most of them are almost healed already. I was just obessively tallying and was rather amazed so many had piled on top of each other. ;) Too many itchy things though. Some never seem to go away. TMI.

Yes, I did discover the suprise in my mailbox! Very funny! You threw me off right in the beginning. I read the first few lines and thought "My goodness, she's jumping right into it, right off the bat!" Then I went "Oh, OH, ok get your mind out of gutter, bad fishie, at least for now." Heh heh. Innnteeerrresting. Such books really exist? I did not see anything wrong with your grammar either.

[bakayaro-onna.livejournal.com]

Yes, the book really exists and yes, I had a copy of it many years ago. Never used it though.

I will be giving the url for the book at the end of the story.