I had a late lunch yesterday, returning only minutes after going for lunch as I had a meeting a 3pm.
Meeting finished at about 3:50pm and we started to reset the meeting room back into two before leaving. Set up the tables, tucked in the chairs, pulled out the collapsible wall, got the tip of my right index finger crushed in a join. Oops.
It was a bit icky and required medical attention of the stitching variety as the tip of my finger had pulled away from my nail.
Fiona from Sport (as I'd been in a World Cup 2010 meeting) drove me to the medical centre after I was patched up in the first aid room (was recommended above Emergency for the lesser waiting time). After a twenty minute wait the doctor took a look at it by poking my finger and then wrote me a letter and sent me to.. Emergency as I had cut my nerve and would require microsurgery to repair it.
Off to Emergency I went and after a little wait, went in to the E.T area and had it looked at by a couple of doctors and was sent to get an xray just in case.
I have a small fracture on the tip of my finger.
Came back to E.T and they then gave me a tetnus booster shot as I vaguely remember my last tetnus shot having been in the early 00's (when my brother had been cleaning the storage room and stabbed his hand with a rusty nail so I went and got a sympathy shot with him).
They then gave me a local on my finger so that they could clean it up a little for me and clear out the fluid build up (some sort of "edema" sounding name - I'm terrible with medical terms). It was then bandaged up as I couldn't get a slot that night for surgery.
I'm now on my way back to the hospital to have surgery on my finger as they need to remove the nail to fix it up as I have a lacerated nail bed. Oops.
I'm a little nervous. But then again, I'm being knocked out for surgery. I think I'm allowed to be a little nervous.
My finger is really really numb and tingely. It's horrible. I don't know why it's still feeling like this. I guess I should be thankful it's not paining?
Rohan was impressed with the way I handled it all, saying I did better than grown men he's seen scream over a little cut. Go me! I'm a Rajput. That's how we roll. Brave and all that. ;o)
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