Comments on: As promised…

By: Mr. McLaren

Mr. McLaren — Mon, 23 Jan 2006 19:03:15 +0000

The thumb is much better now, 4 weeks later.

The dome that was subtended by the cut crusted up and peeled off several times, but the skin underneath was actually alive, not necrotic, which was good.

The peeling also ran the other way, with the skin “below” the cut also peeling back.

Once I cut off the section of fingernail that had been almost sliced off in the incident, things went pretty smoothly.

At this point there’s a relatively small cap of numb skin, that still tends to harden and peel off, along with a visible scar line. And a large part of the thumb is kind of peeled, like a sunburn.

Here’s the photo:

By: George

George — Mon, 23 Jan 2006 18:28:43 +0000

Last night I told my mother-in-law about your incident. She was about to use one of the dreaded cheese slicers on some butter to provide a uniform topping for some dish she was preparing. I have to say that she was much more paranoid than she would otherwise have been.

So, how about some update photos?

By: George

George — Mon, 09 Jan 2006 18:37:25 +0000

The worst I did was clip off some of my fingernail into the onions I was dicing at the pub I worked at while preparing the superbowl chilli one year. Had I not been pissed about having to work on a Sunday, I probably would have thrown away the diced onion containing the bit of fingernail that I couldn’t find.

By: Gwenda

Gwenda — Thu, 29 Dec 2005 14:50:31 +0000

Ewwww. Y’know, I have a far less impressive little numb spot on one of my thumbs that I managed with a cheese slicer once.

By: Alex

Alex — Thu, 29 Dec 2005 14:29:02 +0000

Wow, I was expecting a big cleaver. You did manage to do quite a nasty job with that thing.

Tanya managed to cut her finger on some glass at work about two weeks ago, but you got her’s beat, no contest.