Ow.

[telophase]

Managed to injure myself on the refrigerator, of all things. I'm not entirely sure how it happened, but I ended up banging the heel of my left hand just below the thumb hard enough that I was mildly concerned something might be broken. It's subsided to being just sore now, but you know how hard it is to hold a hardback book or type with both hands without moving your thumb or exerting pressure with it? Damn hard, thank you very much.

And now I stop whining on the internets and go back to read TERRY PRATCHETT.

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[solarbird]

Managed to injure myself on the refrigerator, of all things.
My friend Kathryn managed to cut herself once with BUTTER. I wouldn't worry.

okay sure it was technically the butter wrapper but still

[telophase.livejournal.com]

I don't actually recall the exact circumstances - which sort of bothers me - but it's entirely possible that butter may have been involved, as I was removing it from the refrigerator at about that time.

One should never trust butter.

[fuchsoid.livejournal.com]

Butter is a treacherous beast. I dropped a packet onto my foot straight from the fridge yesterday and it really hurt.

[telophase.livejournal.com]

I have to go to the grocery store and get new butter soon. I shall attempt to find some that is less feral.

[droiche.livejournal.com]

Welcome to my universe. I can burn coffee. No really. I actually burned coffee. Don't get me started on dumb ways I hurt myself.

Also: I hate you...because you're reading a new Terry Pratchett book. -_-

=-P

[telophase.livejournal.com]

I can't believe I didn't find the book earlier - it's been out for a week now. I was in a bookstore and walked right past the front display where it was without even seeing it! I only found it today because someone on the f-list posted that they had it, so I made a trip by the bookstore on the way home.

[helen-keeble.livejournal.com]

*waves*

I've finished it - should have a blog post on it tonight!

[telophase.livejournal.com]

I'm almost halfway through. I'd have finished it last night, but I kept getting distracted by replies to the Monster Post and by people on my f-list thoughtlessly insisting on posting really interesting stuff. :D

[selenite.livejournal.com]

The dishwasher drew blood in an encounter with my daughter today. It seems to be Appliance Assault Day.

[telophase.livejournal.com]

THEY ARE WATCHING US.

Dangerous Appliances

[amberley.livejournal.com]

"Imagine that every time you bought a new washing machine or vacuum cleaner there was a small but finite risk that it would invite in a gang of feral kitchen appliances, who would rob you in the night and depart with all your worldly possessions." -- Charlie Stross

I hope that wasn't your drawing hand! "One hand for the butter, and one for the art."

Re: Dangerous Appliances

[telophase.livejournal.com]

Hee!

Nah, I'm right-handed. It seems to have gotten much better overnight, and now only hurts if I poke it.

Naturally, I have an irresistible urge to poke it at every opportunity.

[sho-sunaga.livejournal.com]

OUCH! I totally sympathise with you!
I actually broke my thumb bone once and it was a pain in the axx (though acutually it was my finger that hurt). Anyway, I could not type the space key without pain and I had to try to type it with my left thumb, nevermind other things I found difficult to do. Well, needless to say, I found that I had noooooooooo coordination what so ever!

[telophase.livejournal.com]

Yikes! Mine was just bruised, and has now subsided enough that it only hurts when I poke it. So of course I poke it all the time.

I broke my toe once, and that hurt when I had to drive, or when I forgot about it and pushed myself in my office chair with that foot. Ow!

[chomiji]

"Right Hand, if you don't stop poking Left Hand, I'm going to have to make you sit in separate corners."

There. That should settle it.

shouldn't it?

[telophase.livejournal.com]

So far, no. But then I was also trapped in a meeting for an hour with nothing to do but poke it and determine the extent of the bruise. :D

[chomiji]

XD

That would do it ... !

I always carry a notebook or writing tablet to meetings simply because regardless of whether I take any actual notes, I need something on which to draw scrollwork thingies, basketwork in and out of the ruling lines, patterns made of carefully dotted lines, and sometimes left-facing profiles (of people or horses or birds ... nothing else, and never right-facing). The more boring the meeting and/or the more agitated I am, the faster the page fills up ... but it keeps me from less socially-acceptable tics.

[telophase.livejournal.com]

I usually draw: my notebook is full of doodles. Today was too cold in the conference room, though (I need to remember to bring my jacket back to work), and my fingers were freezing, so I kept them in my lap. :D

[flusterdance.livejournal.com]

I AM GOING TO GET MY BOOK SIGNED TONIGHT OH MY GOD I AM SO EXCITED I WILL HAVE PICTURES OH MY GOD I GET TO BREATHE TERRY PRATCHETT'S AIR.

(squee)

[telophase.livejournal.com]

*squees along with you*

[kintail.livejournal.com]

Oddly, I broke that bone as a kid, the one that's inside the hand but is a long thumb bone going up to the thumb knuckle. I was sitting on the floor watching TV, and a 7 year old kid that was visiting my little sister managed to trip over my hand.

My mother insisted it couldn't be broken if I wasn't still screaming blue murder more than an hour later (hey, I was 11-going-on-20 and screaming gets old fast!) and if I could move it a little, despite the swelling, so I didn't get it to the emerg room until the next evening when the swelling still hadn't gone down. My first cast! Fun times. >.>

My sister once broke her foot by getting it caught under a recliner footrest thingy as she was getting up out of the chair.

I hope your thumb gets better quickly! Ice it?

[telophase.livejournal.com]

I love parents' medical advice. My mother insisted my broken toe couldn't possibly be broken, on what basis I have no idea. It was with great pride and pleasure that I showed her the X-ray that showed not only a break, but a slight bit of separation between the two halves of the bone. :D

(It didn't hurt anywhere near as much as the doctor thought it ought to. I didn't even finish out my vicoprofen prescription. XD)

[kintail.livejournal.com]

Morbidly, my mother got her special brand of medical advice from her parents and oldest sister, all of whom were diagnosed with "cancer spread through so much of their body for so long before they saw a doctor that we can't tell what *kind* of cancer it started as" ...just before they died of it. So I am grateful that she did take me to the hospital the next day.

Slightly less morbid but potentially more squicky for some people, there was recently a very interesting post over on Making Light about broken bones (http://nielsenhayden.com/makinglight/archives/009238.html), though focusing on much more severe ones that need first aid and an ambulance.

[telophase.livejournal.com]

My dad was diagnosed with that - eventually found it was from a teeny lung tumor - but to his credit, he had no symptoms whatsoever until he fell down in a stream in Scotland and hurt his back. However, I have no doubt that if he *did* have symptoms, he would have put off having them seen to for as long as possible.

I walked on a strained ligament in my ankle for six years because my parents insisted all I needed was exercise. When I got to college and could go to the doctor on my own, I went. The doctor said that exercise was the worst thing for it, and after 6 weeks of rest and favoring it and wrapping it tightly, it was cured. Why yes, I am bitter about six years of pain, thank you for asking. *twitch*