Travel Log - Funny thing - CUT on my hand [Day2]

Day 2 - 27 Jul 08, Sunday

Had a cut on my hand, doing suicidal stupid things again.
Tried to open the plastic seal on the cheap lipgloss.
Unable to open it with my bare hands, and couldn't remember where I kept my own scissors..
I ventured to the kitchen to pick up a pair of scissors from the drawer...
Try.. try.. try..
And when my colleague started to ask me for.. probably the hp charger..
Smart me, was continuing doing that while my eyes looked elsewhere..
And just at that moment, the seal broke..
The tip of the scissors went right into my left third finger...
And wala!
Blood started to emerge, and flow like beer free-flow in pubs..
Vampires, anyone?!

Pain? Yah. Quite pain.
But the pain is non-comparable to the pain that followed for the next few days...


Day 3 was my first day at work over here in USA.
Not really used.. Dreamy and sleepy..
Hey.. It's 11pm-12midnight back at home, okays?
Still super jetlag.. First time experiencing jetlag huh...

Weather was pretty cool, like air-con..
But really not used to the freezing wind..
It should feel great.. only if you have gotten used to it..
Definitely freezing for someone like me, who hadn't stepped out too far from the hot tropical Singapore..
Yeah yeah..
What happened the whole day was that every part of me feels dehydrated..
For someone who's already dehydrated back in SG..
This kind of climate...? It's even worse..
This morning, I removed that bandage on my third finger..
For it wasn't really sticking too well..
Moreover it didn't really did a good job in hiding the wound..
And yah.. I removed it when I was at work.
So my wound went bandage-less..

Throughout the morning, though sleepy..
The dryness had caused me to start dehydrating..
And my wound started to hurt.
I was totally impaired from typing using my left third finger.
I thought washing my hands would help, kind of moisturizing, or soften, or hydrating it..
Apart from that pain from irritation of open wound..
When the water dries up, the pain got worse..
Cos it's like making that part of the skin even dryer..
And what can a slit of wound do?
Dried, and start to open and tear...
Damn pain lah..
Never felt so painful before..


Day 4..
Of course we would all think that I should have applied some medical lotion for better recovery..
But.. I didn't use any medical lotion for cuts..
Instead, I used my hand cream..
I'd used generous amount on that tip of the finger and on the cut..
And the remaining, I will just use it.. of course, for my hand..

So... Whenever I felt that that finger was dry..
There I go.. Open the drawer..
Reach out for my tube of hand cream..
And yeap.. Generous application.......................


Day 5..
I still feel some of the pain from the wound..
But not as 'Splitting' as before...
You know..? The feeling of prying the wound open?!
Yah.. The air was helping me do that then..
Amazingly...
Handcream works!!!
At least it prevented the wound from splitting and opening up before it can even heal..
Woohoooooooooooooooo!!!!

Yup.. I guess that's so much for my finger-cutting episode..

Labels: My stupid deeds, USA