senoritafish | various minor injuries... (Reply)

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.

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.

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.

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?

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.