Don't do this at home
Dec. 15th, 2006 11:27 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
dancerjodiI was wrapping Xmas presents last night, and cut into my fingertip with the super sharp fabric cutting scissors from Fiskar - you know, the ones that Brian told me to be REALLY careful with when I bought them 2 years or so ago? Brian describes the rest the best: "dancer made a valiant effort to lop off her finger with a pair of scissors. i came home, grabbed some liquid bandaid stuff at walgreens (i.e. sterile superglue) and glued her up good. if it was me, i probably would have used the regular super glue from home. but she's special. "
Being the good managed care dubie that I am, I tried to stop the bleeding with pressure and a black, bloody facecloth (so goth) and called my PCP's office. They were closed, but a nurse answered saying that there was indeed no office-based setting I could go to if I needed sutures - if it kept going it would require a trip to the ER. I wasn't looking forward to a $50 co-pay or spending hours sitting in a waiting room with my bloody facecloth, so I was hoping it would stop on its own. After a 1/2 hour it did, and we put some of that liquid skin on it. I'm amazed by that stuff! I'm babying it, because I don't want it to open again and all, but it made such a great seal, and was no issue in the shower this morning. I bought some heavy duty worker's bandiads today to keep the thing covered (and to remind myself not to hit it anywhere) that are threaded like duct tape - not bad! So in all of these years that my Dad and my husband have been mending wounds gained in construction with glue and duct tape they weren't that far off from what should have been done! :) The liquid skin stuff is definitely a good thing to keep in your house - its amazing!
Unrelated, Brian cashed in points he had earned on his Dodge Rewards credit card for $300 worth of free gas at Mobile - not bad. Once we get some debt paid down/organized we'll probably get an Amazon.com card and cancel the dumb ones (Dodge, Sears) so that we can at least earn something on the money we're spending when we need to spend it. :) I also picked up a neat book at the library last night that I'm really getting into. She's starting with trying to get the reader understand where their hangups with money come from. Once you understand all of that and don't fear money anymore, she suggests that you can be purposeful in making it work for you. An interesting concept! I'm a big proponent of the connections between family/society and what one is doing in their life, but I never really thought about that connection in terms of money management. It should be an interesting read.
Being the good managed care dubie that I am, I tried to stop the bleeding with pressure and a black, bloody facecloth (so goth) and called my PCP's office. They were closed, but a nurse answered saying that there was indeed no office-based setting I could go to if I needed sutures - if it kept going it would require a trip to the ER. I wasn't looking forward to a $50 co-pay or spending hours sitting in a waiting room with my bloody facecloth, so I was hoping it would stop on its own. After a 1/2 hour it did, and we put some of that liquid skin on it. I'm amazed by that stuff! I'm babying it, because I don't want it to open again and all, but it made such a great seal, and was no issue in the shower this morning. I bought some heavy duty worker's bandiads today to keep the thing covered (and to remind myself not to hit it anywhere) that are threaded like duct tape - not bad! So in all of these years that my Dad and my husband have been mending wounds gained in construction with glue and duct tape they weren't that far off from what should have been done! :) The liquid skin stuff is definitely a good thing to keep in your house - its amazing!
Unrelated, Brian cashed in points he had earned on his Dodge Rewards credit card for $300 worth of free gas at Mobile - not bad. Once we get some debt paid down/organized we'll probably get an Amazon.com card and cancel the dumb ones (Dodge, Sears) so that we can at least earn something on the money we're spending when we need to spend it. :) I also picked up a neat book at the library last night that I'm really getting into. She's starting with trying to get the reader understand where their hangups with money come from. Once you understand all of that and don't fear money anymore, she suggests that you can be purposeful in making it work for you. An interesting concept! I'm a big proponent of the connections between family/society and what one is doing in their life, but I never really thought about that connection in terms of money management. It should be an interesting read.
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Date: 2006-12-15 05:00 pm (UTC)liquid bandaides are great - even the duct tape bandaides don't stay on under water (for E, who cuts his hands up on barnacles), or when I'm gardening and my hands get wet. I think there needs to be more 'tape' on them!
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Date: 2006-12-15 06:31 pm (UTC)Only problem is after it healed, it's numb along the line of the cut. Feels really weird.
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Date: 2006-12-16 01:20 am (UTC)a) I knew he could put you back together, and
b) I haven't been too much off the mark with my own first aid. I mean, just because I don't have visible scars doesn't mean ... um.
Yeah, I should probably get a couple of tubes of that stuff to supplement the half-dry tubes of cyranolate in the junk drawer. Glad you're okay!
And Suze Orman is the pink-collar guru. Two non-severed thumbs up!