I was out in the front yard using the electric hedge clippers to trim the UNBELIEVABLY AND QUITE POSSIBLY SUPERNATURALLY REGENERATIVE ACACIA OF DOOM when my neighbor came out to chat with me. She was an OB nurse in her career days, and so I started to talk to her about the pregnancy.
She was tactful enough to only tell me nice things about birth, and none of the freak-ass deliveries I'm sure that she witnessed in her day. We talked for a bit more, and then she left me to finish trimming the horrid acacia.
Before I knew it, I had mangled my left thumb in the clippers. Greeeeeeat.
I went inside, rinsed my bleeding thumb, and put pressure on it for a while. I think that I had a mild case of shock, because while I was putting a band-aid on my thumb (IT DIDN'T NEED STITCHES BECAUSE STITCHES INVOLVE NEEDLES) I was pale, dizzy, ear buzzy, and my arms started quivering a little.
I lay down on the bed and elevated my thumb. After about five minutes, I felt better. The rushing sensation in my ears took another ten minutes to go away.
The upside to this is that is was my left thumb that got hacked. Granted, I am left-handed, but I haven't had full nerve feeling in my left thumb since my junior year in high school, when I managed to hack it open in a broken dinner glass. This is good, because I realize that I chose the proper thumb to hack open. Imagine what it would have felt like on the thumb that I CAN feel with!
I used to always be able to tell when it was going to rain by the scar on my thumb, but lost the ability a year ago or so.
It looks like I might have the ability again. Luckily, monsoon season is over here, so I'll have to wait a while to test the theory.
Posted by Jen at September 7, 2005 2:49 PM