This is going to be short as I'm dictating to Grant

[altarflame]

A couple of days ago I started getting this nasty infection by my fingernail - just like a hard swollen red spot that I hoped would go away. But instead it got worse, like bigger and more painful until yesterday I started seeing a red line going down my finger and ever on to my hand from it. SO we went to the stupid hospital to get it looked at and basically I ended up having hand surgery. Well, that is the respectable version. Really it was more like "fingertip surgery". Anyways, the point is I am now working with a full finger cast on one hand and oxycodone.

More later.

So exciting, I know.

Comments

[noelove.livejournal.com]

HOLY SHIT. How did you get the infection in the first place?

and HI GRANT!

[altarflame.livejournal.com]

By chewing on my cuticles...like a winner.

[noelove.livejournal.com]

when do you notice that you're doing it?

[altarflame.livejournal.com]

Uh, I don't, or else I would quit it.

HOWEVER, the ER nurse noticed I was doing it to the opposite hand AS THEY CUT OPEN my infected finger. Nerves and all, Grant thought it was hilarious.

[babyslime.livejournal.com]

HAHAHA! I would totally be doing that.

[babyslime.livejournal.com]

I did the SAME thing to my toe once and almost had surgery for it as well... but one of their tricks worked at the last minute + I had huge finger-sized antibiotics I had to take at the same time.

[altarflame.livejournal.com]

I used to bite my toenails routinely. Now...the nails are too thick. It's kinda gross. I could just gnaw and gnaw to no avail ;)

[babyslime.livejournal.com]

Ewwie.

[mommydama.livejournal.com]

I've been trying to picture this for like 20 minutes now. Two things: OOOO GROSS and I don't think I could get my toenails anywhere near my face anyway.

[altarflame.livejournal.com]

I could still get my ankles behind my neck right up until my pregnancy with Elise...I don't think I've tried since then, though, now that I think about it.

[eternamariposa.livejournal.com]

roflmao...like a winner.

[altarflame.livejournal.com]

You know it baby. We come from a family of winners.

[mommydama.livejournal.com]

Ok, you know that Maria chews on her entire fingertips, right? And how she got a fever blister on her finger because of a sore in her mouth that moved to open cuts on her fingers from chewing on them? And how they told me she could spread the sores to "other places" (said significantly by the doctor with eye contact with me)? Well, that wasn't enough to scare her off of chewing on her nails and nothing I've tried so far has worked (nasty tasting stuff, gloves, bandaids, just keeping her close and pulling her hands out of her mouth constantly, etc). But I told her all about this experience of yours with as much gruesome detail as possible and I haven't seen her fingers in her mouth for almost a full day now. Heh.

[altarflame.livejournal.com]

This is great! I wish it was having more of an effect on MY kids' nail chewing :/ They seem unable to make the connection and notice they're doing it in the moment.