OUCH!

Cut the hydrogen peroxide by half with water, it will make it less intense.

I couldn't find hydrogen peroxide, so I used isopropyl alcohol instead. I will survive.

I've got it re-bandaged. I'm going to have a former nurse look at it when I get to school, since the nurse from my doctor's office hasn't called back yet.

Me=Baby

If there are cats coming out of your wound, it's definitely bad. I think you only get pus if it's infected, though.

If there are cats coming out of your wound, it's definitely bad.

How did the cats get in there in the first place?

Ouch. Alcohol is worse that peroxide.

Because of my advanced klutziness, I have field-tested almost every bandage out there, and the ones you leave on such as Johnson & Johnson's Advanced Healing or Band-aid Active Flex/Advanced Healing are worth every dime of their inflated price. Cuts heal literally days faster with less scarring, and usually one bandage will do it. They're also exciting to me because I am not allergic to whatever adhesive they use that keeps the bandage on for days. Most adhesives leave neat, bandage-shaped rashes.

USE THE DOCUMENT IDs,USE THE DOCUMENT IDs,FOR THE SWEET EVERLOVING FUCK USE THE FUCKING DOCUMENT IDs.

Or I'll have to spend the first twenty minutes of what should be a five minute edit hunting down the document. And you'll wonder what is taking ME so long. And you'll bitch. AND ONE DAY YOU'LL DIE.

I had a less than stellar weekend. Saturday evening I started having digestive problems, which are lingering. Not the usual stomach flu, but it started as a sharp pain in my stomach which finally let up enough that I could sleep and subsided to an achy feeling low in the abdomen (central area) that persists today. I'm seeing the doctor tomorrow, but it's annoying.

Then, early Monday morning, we had a fire in my building. The alarm on my floor didn't go off for about half an hour - which meant I slept through them evacuating the other six floors and the firefighters arriving. When it did go off, I got out of my apartment to discover I couldn't get off my floor without having to fight my way through a lot of firefighting equipment. The people in the apartment where the fire was are in the hospital, seriously burned. The building management is looking into why the alarm didn't go off. There's also been a fuss and there are going to be investigations - and possibly legislation - to ban the kind of alarm we have (old ... and it has to be pulled by someone to go off).

Rose has been with her foster mom for a year and nothing like this has happened, her back was nice and furry when she came to me and she's been losing it rapidly. So I'm inclined to think it's my place. Which is too bad.

I'm not sure what to do but I know I'm not going to send her back to the foster mom today, she's hiding behind the dryer (the cat not the foster mom) and I think she's been stressed out enough today as it is.

All I want is an affectionate cat!

VW -- sorry you fell. I had a nurse say recently that you shouldn't put peroxide on a cut after the first 24 hours because new research shows it can damage the new skin growing and take longer to heal. (just FYI)

Toddson, that really sucks. I hope they figure out what the problem was so you don't end up being in a worse position sometime.

A nurse looked at my owie and said it will probably do better overnight, so I didn't follow the nurse on the phone's directions and go to urgent care. The thought of taking two children to sit with me in urgent care was enough to make me actively want to deal with an infection.

Boy, the two young kids have the attack of the sillies. I'm ignoring.