Franken Finger - the full story

Hey everyone! As most of you probably know by now, I sliced my finger a little over a week ago. What some may not know is what fully happened - as many people assume it's food related ... I was heading to my parents place to drop off curtains and pick up my cheque and I was trying to puncture a hole in the strap of my wedge sandal. I guess the knife slipped, sliced my finger. I'm pretty sure my neighbours think someone died because I screamed bloody murder. I was literally hysterical. Called my dad, he said to wrap it [I grabbed the nearest face cloth ..] and head to the hospital, especially since I wasn't sure how deep it was.

I called Matt at work saying I was heading to our local hospital [literally a 10min bus ride] and since I had just missed a bus, he told me to go back and rinse it again then wrap it in gauze. Luckily he had bought a first aid kit last weekend. It was a poor job of wrapping but that didn't matter since I knew they were going to unwrap and re-wrap it at the hospital. The next 4 hours were awful mostly - Matt showed up [oh thank gawd ...] - 3 hours in waiting room - Had to get Matt to undo my shorts so I could go pee [awkward ...] Within one hour I got my tetanus shot, had panic attacks because the freezing needle hurts so bad, didn't feel the stitches and doctor is pretty sure there's nerve damage.

Needless to say, my finger is now called "Franken finger" because of my lovely stitches. Since I can't get it wet I had to put a ziploc bag on my hand to shower and people give me weird looks when I try to wash my hands. It's been 10 days since it happened and I'm pretty sure I've lost most feeling on my finger tip. It still doesn't straighten out but Matt swears it'll come back. I can get stitches out soon and I'm super excited. It's hard to wash it though, because it's still sensitive. I am trying - even if it is dripping water on it lol! At least there's polysporin!

See? Not as gross anymore. Anyways to that's the full story and I just want to say thanks to those who have been sending kind words to me when it happened!!! I promise to have a video and/or blog up ASAP!!