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Man, does this hurt! Last week my niece, grandniece and I decided to have our weekly Thursday lunch at Applebees. In the process of getting settled, I sat, scooting my chair forward to the table....you know the routine.......grab the chair, lift your butt a bit, pull chair forward, settle butt back down and let go of the chair all kind of in one fluid motion? However.....this chair had a loose seat and lifted as I pulled, which resulted in my index fingers sliding between the chair seat and the frame. But, because it's such an "all in one" motion, before I could react and stop myself from settling my butt back down and letting go of the chair, I'd already done it, and found myself in HORRID PAIN! Both my index fingers had been pinched between the seat and the frame, but the worst part was that the right one got caught on some jagged metal (probably where the frame and seat were supposed to be hooked), and before I could take a breath, I had part of my fingernail ripped off along with a deep puncture wound. (the left finger just slid out and got scraped a bit, no big injury). Talk about shock!!

I have to say, the staff at Applebees was great. My first reaction was to wrap it up to stem the flow of blood - the waitress and assistant manager went and got more napkins and a bag of ice and bandaids. Then I looked at it to determine extent of damage and realized that I was going to need medical care - the piece of fingernail that had been ripped off wasn't off...it was hanging by a thread and was waaaaay up the nailbed. Obviously the bandaids weren't gonna do it, so we requested bandaging materials - which they brought right out (which my niece helped me put on). When I showed them the injury and told them I'd have go for care, their immediate reaction was "no problem, just let us get an incident report filled out and then you go wherever you wish to and have the bill sent to us. I said, of course, fine....but it's stopped bleeding and isn't life threatening, so we're eating lunch first!

So....an hour or so later, the doctor said it didn't look like any nail bed damage, and the puncture looked clean (well, YA.....I pretty much bet that all that blood flushed out any germs!!!) so it should heal well. I had an appointment with my doctor on Monday for my usual PT/INR, so I had her look at it while I was there - I thought it was healing normally, but it doesn't hurt to doublecheck......and I was right. I do, of course, bump the stupid thing a few hundred times a day, so it's sore all the time, of course.......sheesh. But, I've gone from gauze padding and tape to a couple of bandaids with some paper type tape to hold them on.

Meanwhile, things are still busy here.....did I mention that typing with one finger out of commission is really SLOW????

All's well otherwise.

Done Ramblin