Ask not for whom the vacuum sucks
Feb. 11th, 2007 03:34 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
merI cut my thumb on the vacuum cleaner yesterday morning.
The VACUUM CLEANER fer dog's sake. The wound bled. I washed it. I slapped a bandage on it. I kept cleaning. But the kicker was last night, the thumb stopped wanting to bend, in kind of a weird way. Like in a "that cut wasn't nearly bad enough for this" kind of way. Like an infectious way. So, before bed, I reopened the wound and cleaned it out with hydrogen peroxide and slapped some Neosporin on it (I'm slow to Neosporin because I don't like to, you know, rely on that stuff). And this morning the thumb bent, with much less pain, and the wound looked kind of like a blister because I had managed to cut a skin-flap, not just lay open a tidy slice; but it was kind of red around the skin flap, and when I pressed on it, it oozed pus. PUS! So. Frickin'. Cool. I don't mean the essence of pus, or what it represents, but just... it's like magic. "Look what my body did!" So then I de-pussed and recleaned and 'sporined and bandaged and went on with my day.
I really wasn't meant to be a medical professional; I know that. But a little cut is like fun in the bank.
The VACUUM CLEANER fer dog's sake. The wound bled. I washed it. I slapped a bandage on it. I kept cleaning. But the kicker was last night, the thumb stopped wanting to bend, in kind of a weird way. Like in a "that cut wasn't nearly bad enough for this" kind of way. Like an infectious way. So, before bed, I reopened the wound and cleaned it out with hydrogen peroxide and slapped some Neosporin on it (I'm slow to Neosporin because I don't like to, you know, rely on that stuff). And this morning the thumb bent, with much less pain, and the wound looked kind of like a blister because I had managed to cut a skin-flap, not just lay open a tidy slice; but it was kind of red around the skin flap, and when I pressed on it, it oozed pus. PUS! So. Frickin'. Cool. I don't mean the essence of pus, or what it represents, but just... it's like magic. "Look what my body did!" So then I de-pussed and recleaned and 'sporined and bandaged and went on with my day.
I really wasn't meant to be a medical professional; I know that. But a little cut is like fun in the bank.
![[identity profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/openid.png){kind=small}
no subject
Date: 2007-02-11 09:00 pm (UTC)On the drive home last night, I kept waiting for my body to realize that I had engaged in prolonged cat-petting, and for my hand to swell up like a balloon or something, but it seems that my transgression flew in under the immune system radar.
no subject
Date: 2007-02-12 02:30 am (UTC)Last winter, this girl at work fell down on the ice on her way to work and scraped her hands pretty badly... a day later, she asked what infection looked like. I said, "Well, if you get red lines going towards your heart... that's BAD." And the day after that she was like, "This kind of red line?" She had to go get all cleaned up, and her pus was *green.*
I'm not saying I want green pus, but wow.
no subject
Date: 2007-02-12 03:04 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2007-02-12 11:51 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2007-02-13 10:41 pm (UTC)Bwahahaha. One of my favorite Mer moments.
"Do you need a han-" "NOOOO!"
::slide::
::slide::
::slide::
"Help me up!"
no subject
Date: 2007-02-12 02:28 am (UTC)Glad your hand escaped the cat dander mafia!
To sporin or not to sporin
Date: 2007-02-12 02:57 am (UTC)*craziness confirmed*
Re: To sporin or not to sporin
Date: 2007-02-12 11:50 am (UTC)Re: To sporin or not to sporin
Date: 2007-02-13 10:45 pm (UTC)