Sorry I haven’t blogged in a while.
A few weeks ago I had an accident in the kitchen whilst preparing
tea. I sliced off a good part of my
little finger on one of those mandolin slicers!
Strangely enough it didn’t hurt all that much – I obviously sliced
through the nerves, and, thankfully, all my first aid training kicked in. I grabbed a tea-towel and put pressure on the
wound and got myself on the floor before I passed-out. Luckily hubby was due home at any moment,
which was good because I didn’t have my mobile phone on me!
I asked hubby if there was a slice of skin on the worktop –
there was, so I asked him to put it in a bag and take it with us to the Minor
Injuries Unit.
Thankfully it was empty when I arrived; just as well as I
passed out just as I got there! Swiftly hubby gave my details and we were sent
through to the empty waiting room. I was only there a minute or two when a
lovely nurse came to fetch me.
This wonderful nurse actually managed to glue the skin back
onto my finger – I cannot thank her enough, she did an amazing job and, she was
so excited 3 days later when I went for a check-up – the skin had taken - and she was proudly showing all and sundry her work!
I can’t tell you how lucky I feel right now – if the skin hadn’t
taken, the wound was so bad that I would have had to have had a skin graft - and that would have taken weeks of recuperation!
Now less than 3 weeks since the accident, the crusty top
layer has peeled off leaving beautiful shiny new skin beneath. And even better, I don’t think I’m going to have
much of a scar to show for it! It;s still completely numb, and some activities are still quite difficult as it's my right hand and I'm right-handed. But how fantastic our bodies are, that it can repair itself so
quickly and so perfectly like that.
We truly are amazing!
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