Ouchie

[pseydtonne]

I had just finished a good round of hugging Munkee after her very painful day. I was walking away from the bed toward the door when I got a sliver of glass stuck in my left heel.

This isn't the first time in the past week. When the repair dude installed the new windows, he had to smash the old ones out. I've swept a couple times but I still find slivers.

I have about a decade of calluses on my feet. My heels are hardened. This means the sliver is now floating in an aspic of epidermis. Notice the present tense: I spent an hour digging with tweezers and nail clippers but I couldn't extract the sliver. Oh, I touched it several times but I could never get a good grip. I must've shoved it deeper.

So I washed the hole I'd carved and poured in polysporin like caulk. It's not a nail. It'll come out when it wants to, right?

By the way, if I'm totally wrong about leaving the sliver in, let me know. Better yet, come by my place and help me get it out. I'll cook you lunch and we can play records. I've got boozes, too. Thursday is my day off.

-almost happy to see tomorrow, Dante

Comments

[ltbloodrose.livejournal.com]

OUCH!!!!

Feel better.

Off-topic

[epanastatis.livejournal.com]

Your letter rocked, as I expected it to, and thanks to the faxing it didn't delay matters any. Though I'm not sure the co-op board wants to know about the cuddling capacities of gazebogrrl and me.

[hakamadare.livejournal.com]

well, i had a similar experience a few weeks ago - stepped on a piece of glass, thought i had extracted it, but then, several days later, realized that a little sliver remained. ended up going to the Somerville Hospital emergency room, had the bottom of my foot numbed, and a friendly doctor dug out the sliver.

all in all, it was an enormously entertaining experience. i'm completely serious. the people in the emergency room were fun to be around, i was never in very much pain (except when they were injecting the Novocaine, but that passed quickly), and the feeling of having my foot numbed was fascinating. i spent the next two days limping around (and moving as little as possible), and then i was better.

so i'd suggest you at least consider letting the medical establishment take a look at your foot. the sooner they look at it, the easier it is for them to deal with the problem.

-steve

p.s. got your messages about computer woes, have some ideas what to do, will contact you, hopefully today. sorry for not responding sooner!

[teddywolf.livejournal.com]

Don't let the sliver stay in, seriously. Get it removed.

I find a damp cloth or paper towel is very good for mopping up small glass splinter - much better than a broom.