I'll give you the finger ... update

Welp, two weeks later and my finger is almost completely healed! I have a lovely dark purple stripe along the side of my nail, but the pain is almost all gone and I'm slowly but surely regaining sensation in the part that went numb. (Apparently I messed up some nerves very nicely.)

Can you imagine if I'd done any real damage to my finger? If it's true that you're only given as much as you can handle, then the Lord must know how squeamish I am. This is probably the wimpiest finger-in-door story of all time -- hardly worth mentioning, really -- and yet I was thoroughly traumatized by the experience. And it's taken two weeks to get mostly back to normal. (Only mostly, because there is still that small numb spot. Not that it bothers me, but it's weird.) Doesn't that seem like a long time for a finger that didn't get broken, for a nail that didn't even need to be drilled or cauterized?

Obviously, I'm not cut out for serious injuries. (KNOCK ON WOOD.)


~RCH~