Entries tagged with "finger"

Giving my doctor the finger

posted by srah on August 1, 2007 12:46 PM

Tags: doctor, finger, hypochondria

On the fourth of July, I cut my finger while chopping vegetables. I cleaned it up, bandaged it, and went back to work. I cut myself right across the knuckle, unfortunately, so I kept either reopening it or trying to hold my finger completely still so it wouldn't reopen. Then, the following weekend I ran my finger into the bedpost in some kind of flailing incident¹. I happened to hit the same finger and the same knuckle I had already injured days before. The following week, my knuckle turned purplish and swelled up. Just as I was about to go...