diamond & breadknives 2008 November 26 21:25
Posted by diamond in : Health , trackbackToday, i went down to the break room at 16:00 as usual, looking forward to a few games of pool, and a delicious combination of swiss bread, cheese, and meat of unspecified origin. Peter was the only other pool player available from our group, and we quickly got stuck into a discussion about how load-balancing works in linux.
So deeply was i engrossed in this conversation that, while cutting myself some bread, i failed to realise until Too Late that the knife was going to end up removing a significant portion of my left index finger’s exterior. The knife was efficiently sharp, so i didn’t notice until about 1cm of my skin was hanging off (shuddering as i type this. I hate that memory). The doctor has told me “in a year’s time, you won’t even see a scar”. I’m guessing that was meant to be reassuring. I’m not convinced it had its intended effect however.
Still, my finger now looks like it’s dressed up for a black-tie event, with a very tasteful bow keeping the outer layers of cladding in place. And boy was i glad to have noirin only one floor away when the incident happened, as her first-aid skills (and general Competence) were put to good effect.
It’s, of course, typical that i was getting back into guitar playing. Here’s hoping i don’t have to wait all of the 6-8 weeks of healing before i can go back to that.
Filled this under the things-i-wish-i-had-been-paying-more-attention-to-so-i-could-have-avoided category.
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Ouch …. Hope the finger isn’t too sore and that it gets better soon!
That’s the problem. These sharp Victorinox knives. Regarding guitar playing, consider Django Reinhard who only had 3 functional fingers on his left hand. Still he’s one of the greatest guitar players ever!