So I am typing this very, very awkwardly right now. I got injured at work and had to clock out early and rush to the ER. :/ Basically, I had to destroy some posters, I was using my trusty knife to do so, annd my hand slipped, resulting in a *very* deep, inch-long gap on my left thumb. It's a very good knife, very sharp and well-kept, so it destroyed me, ha. (The price of treating one's blades well.) I recognized it needed sutured, so I rushed out of the stockroom to where my asst. manager was, and showed him and told him I thought I had to go to the hospital. He told me to go to the bathroom and wrap it in paper towels -in my haste I hadn't grabbed anything to mop up the blood, only used my other hand as a stopper- which I then did. By that time the blood was running down my wrist and through the spaces between the fingers of both hands. It got everywhere. >.< My boss actually had to throw customers out and lock the store until we got the blood cleaned up. He refused to let me help clean, which I thought was bollocks, but I guess made sense since I had to keep pressure on my wound. Still... It was my mess. My bro came to my rescue, cause Dad was out of town and Mom & sister worked. By the time we got to the hospital I was shaking nonstop, from shock, blood loss, or nerves, I cannot tell.

Side note: My anxiety kicks in over the tiniest things yet in real emergencies, I am oddly calm and cool-headed. I always somehow manage to hold off panicking until after the fact. -.-

Dad met us at the ER. I ended up with only 3 stitches, but they kept popping out/ripping at first so the doctor had to do them 3 or 4 times before they were deep enough to hold. I have a huge ass splint on my thumb as well, because the wound is on the joint and if I bend my thumb at all (at least for the next few days) they'll just rip again. So not only am I trying to cope with a brutal cold, but now my left hand is essentially useless due to inability to use my thumb (I'm literally leaving my Mjölnir pendant on 24/7, something I don't normally do, out of fear I won't be able to put it back on if I take it off). And I'm in pain. So much pain. It's been ages since I've gotten a wound bad enough to need stitches. I'd forgotten how miserable an experience it is.

I am a very crabby Viking as a result.

*However*

Despite this, some good things happened today.
*My red circle lenses came this morning so I now have Dazz eyes. In fact, I got compliments from the ER doctor on my different-colored eyes. XD
*A friend randomly gifted me a pair of his old army fatigue pants since mine are falling apart.
*I came home from the ER to discover a TeeFury shirt my mom ordered me -Lucy from the Lego movie as Rosie the Riveter- had arrived during the day.
*Humorously enough, after my wife gave me monster bandaids for my knuckles a few weeks ago, I decided I wanted cute bandaids of my own, and bought skeleton covered ones online. They were also here when I got home- just in time to cover my hideous thumb wound, when I can finally stop wearing the splint. That timing...

That's... pretty much it.

Hopefully I'm going to sleep and forget this pain for a while...

Goodnight loves.

~Lani/Dazz