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07-31-2008, 09:07 PM
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Yesterday I was planting peppers and for some stupid unknown reason I stabbed the ground with a really sharp pointed hand shovel before removing my other hand from the hole. Sliced my ring finger open from the last joint almost to the tip! I don't think anything has ever hurt as bad as this. Waaaahhhh! Then today I bumped the same part of that finger trying to put up a fence post. I'm tempted to just go back to bed until Saturday.
I did get all of the peppers planted! Dripping blood and all. Yes I did clean it out right away and covered it before planting the rest of the peppers. It is bandaged with old fashioned drawing salve on it.
Guess it will really get cleaned out when I wash eggs tonight. Just the thought of getting bleach water in it makes me cringe! I'll have to find the rubber gloves.
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08-01-2008, 12:08 AM
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oh, Rhonda, that sounds terribly painful. Please keep using those rubber gloves, you don't want an infection ruining the big weekend! One year I was out back, under the pine trees where I had planted many hostas. They were eventually hidden under an overgrowth of Boston Ivy, so I wanted to dig some out. I was armed with a pitchfork and a shovel. The shovel wouldn't dig into the hard, compacted soil, so I gave the fork a try. Again, no luck....so I lifted it high, and plunged it down as hard as I could, right through my sneaker & into my foot.  I wonder if you yelled as loud as I did.
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08-01-2008, 01:47 AM
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EWWWW! Yer both givin' me the heeby-jeebies! Rhonda...so anxious to finally get to meet you...and Pat...(sniff, sniff)...let's make a date for next year!.....Pam
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08-01-2008, 02:01 AM
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I hope that you two, and all gardeners keep current on your Tetnus Immunizations ( every ten years). It is a small price to pay for a lot of protection.
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08-01-2008, 07:01 PM
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OUCH!!!  I thought that I was the only one that did such things. I keep an aloe bottle around for burns, carbolated vasoline for cuts, and peroxide to clean things out when they happen, along with Fels Naptha to get plant sap off to keep hives away.
Hope you heal quickly - I'll be praying for a quick recovery for your finger, Rhonda.
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08-01-2008, 08:28 PM
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You're doing a great job Rebecka. Even though it looks horrible it isn't open anymore and doesn't hurt today, yet. Wait till I hit it on something.
Last time I tried to get my tetanus vacc updated the doctors were not giving them. They said there was some sort of shortage. I haven't been too keen on getting it updated. I have a very real and paranoid fear of needles. |
08-02-2008, 04:13 AM
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i am allergic to the tetanus shots and not every place has the alternative anti-tetanus, so I just go with cleaning things out well and using the carbolated vasoline and aloe -- so far so good!
Glad to hear your finger is starting to heal -- maybe you need to put a thick sock over it to cushion it from wacking it on anything Rhonda. Hope you don't bump it -- that would be miserable. Take care of yourself! |
08-04-2008, 05:37 PM
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Yeeeeeooowwww! Yes, gardening can be dangerous! Those kind of accidents always happen in a split second & then you pay for them for weeks. Rhonda, I didn't know about it at the reunion. I hope your finger isn't too sore & starting to heal. 
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08-04-2008, 05:52 PM
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owwww....heebie jeebies indeed.....
ive sliced my hand open b4 with a spade in the hard NC red clay before trying to get a little hole dug too....so i know the feeling.....but now the pitchfork in the foot........oww yikes!
hope its healing well.....poor thing!!
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08-04-2008, 08:19 PM
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Pat, I keep wondering when I'm going to jab my potato fork into my foot. I get real careless with it at times.
Finger is now mostly healed over (I heal pretty fast) but it's still tender and I will have a nasty looking scar. That old fashined drawing salve is wonderful! I was surprised at how rapidly this healed up. Truthfully after I put the first band-aid on, I was kind of afraid to look at it. It was deep and oh boy did it bleed! | | Thread Tools | | | | Display Modes |  Linear Mode | 
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