Sumi, really sorry. Smonster, how frustrating.
In mememme news, was a damn rat in our front yard. I suspect it is because I've been bleeding a lot lately for reasons that are too dull to tell, and that means a lot of bloody bandages and paper towels in the garbage. Rats can smell right through the garbage bags if there is even a tiny hole or tear, and they are especially attracted to human blood. Garbage pickup Thursday, and in the meantime, I'm a cruel bastard who hopes the neighborhood cats get him.
smonster, I hope the safety lesson really does stick. No more hurting my friend, mkay?
I have this to contribute to the nerve damage healing potential. In '87, I seriously damaged my ring finger...description whitefonted below, seriously don't read it if you are squeamy at all...thereby cutting a bunch of nerves and causing the finger to be numb for a very long time.
It still does not have the same sensitivity as my other fingers, but it has healed nicely and retained fine usability.
My cut was on a joint as well, though on the palm side. You really have to look to see it.
What happened was:
I wore an antique wedding and engagement ring my great-aunt left me. Running out my apartment door, I hooked my hand around the door jam to slow my trajectory around a corner. I felt a terrible sting and looked at my palm to see that my ring had fallen off
.
I was devastated, thinking I'd have to have it repaired. I
searched the floor but could not find the ring.
The realization dawned slowly as, trembling, I turned my hand over to discover that
the ring wasn't gone at all. It was just embedded so far into the flesh that it disappeared.
I sat down on the floor to work my way out of going into shock...through sheer strength of will. The next day, I sat down on the floor with a nail file and a tub of "I can't believe it's not butter" to pry it off. This is a medical procedure I do not recommend.
Eventually, it was all fine. I hope yours is too!
they are especially attracted to human blood.
You have vampire rats? Jeez, I thought we had it bad with the football sized rodents and opossums with bad dental hygiene.
Sheesh.
Nerves regenerate at a rate of a mm/day or an inch/month. So, for short distances, they can often re-bridge the gap.
Typo, double or triple bag your detritus and shove it in the freezer until garbage day. We recycle everything we can. I can't live with a countertop composter--we have no room for one anyway--and have no disposal, so we freeze garbage until pickup day. It works. Our freezer's seldom full. Double or triple bagged, there's no smell, either inside the freezer, or outside anywhere else.
Yay healage of smonster's (and bonny's) fingers. I still have the scar where the bagel knife slipped, detatching muscle and tendon from bone. I was home alone. I tried everything and was getting dizzy and contemplating calling 911 when the bleeding started to slow and H came home. "Bagel? Really?"
Yes, bagel. Things are lethal. I not only have the scar (I never got it stitched, just butterflied), there's a marked depression and gap behind it where the tissue never reattached or regrew. Bagels, man. Tricksy. They'll get you.
Serious bagel cuts are the #1 cause of ER visits on Sunday mornings. True fact.
My emergency room doc friends concur that bagels are second degree lethal weapons. They apparently cause more wounds than any other non-vehicular implement. Or, so I'm told.
I'm sure I've told my bagel injury story here. It wasn't the knife. It was the actual bagel. It was toasted, and I bit into it, and some crumbs went flying, and one of them got lodged in my eye. I had to make an emergency trip to the eye doctor to get it out.
It was the actual bagel.
This is why you're in our top three most self-injurious Buffistas, Hil.
