… first time I’ve injured myself while making a club sandwich.
\n… first time I’ve injured myself in a residential kitchen.
\n… first time I’ve driven myself to an ER.
\n… first time I’ve been to the hospital in Halifax for myself.
\n… first time I’ve had a ring block.
\n… first time I’ve had stitches.
\n… first time I’ve had a doctor who was younger than me.
\n… first time I’ve had a doctor tell me that I was incredibly tough.
\n… first time I’ve had a doctor tell me “there will probably only be very minor disfiguration”.<\/p>\n
Bet you read the title and thought it was going to be something about Boxing Day and parenthood rites of passage, didn’t you?<\/p>\n
You know what hurt the most–the fact that the cute ER doctor was younger than me.<\/p>\n
(You know what’s good for the pain of stitches–which “aggravate the insult to your tissue”? Southern bourbon pecan bites!)<\/p>\n
Pictures tomorrow of the injury and the offending implement.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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