So yesterday at work one of the janitors I work with had their thin metal tube of a broom break in half and therefore it was thrown away for me to take care of it. As I was putting all of my trash into the compactor this half a broom handle gouged into the bottom of my arm and scraped a hefty layer of skin off, I'd say about a one and a quarter inch wide circle. First thing I did as soon as I could was return inside from the compactor area and rinsed the cut in a bathroom sink then pressed a paper towel against it.

After finishing up and returning home I had my father take a look at it so we could bandage it up better. First some alcohol to kill off germs followed by a firm gritting of my teeth he put some gauze pads on it then wrapped some bandage tape around it.

My father made a doctor's appointment this morning to get it checked out since it was a little deeper than just a surface cut. So I've got some stitches and a bandage wrapped around my arm right now. The worst thing is it slightly stings so it's kind of annoying.

Not really anything majorly important, just felt like bringing it up. I did get a doctor's excuse for not going into work today or tomorrow. Logically that makes sense considering I don't want to make the stitches rip of anything since I do a lot of heavy lifting at work. So hooray(?) I get two days off, but since I am a sub-contractor it's not likely I will get paid for those days, so woo hoo.