I am an idiot. I managed to slice open my thumb today.

The silly thing is I don’t know what I was thinking. I got out the fancy pants pampered chef grater thing because I had a bunch of parmesan to grate. After that I wanted to cut up a zucchini, which I usually do by hand with a good old fashioned knife, but I saw the blade that does thin slices and thought, ah ha! That will be fast and neat and I have to wash this contraption anyway so might as well try it. So I did. And as I was doing that, Boo said something, I looked at him but kept right on slicing, and shit if I didn’t slice open my thumb. My right thumb, the one I need to do everything with.

It’s stupid because I would never keep cutting with a knife without looking, what the hell did I think I was doing slicing without looking on this doohickie?

And of course my thumb practically fountained with blood, I felt woozy and slightly sick, and knew that it would take ages to stop bleeding because hello! I’m on blood thinners! Fortunately it wasn’t deep enough for stitches, so the bleeding did stop eventually. Now it’s all neosporined and bound up and waiting to slowly heal. Sigh. H was home early and able to finish dinner (thanks honey!) so at least that didn’t get spoiled since I was suddenly incapable of doing anything. I ate left handed. That was charming to watch, I’m sure.

Incidently, it’s rather hard to type and knit. Fortunately the movie we watched tonight was way too gory to knit to anyway, so no harm done.

Get better soon thumb! I need you!

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