I Can Type Again...sort of

Last Friday I was working late. Too late. Well too late to be dancing with a very hot glue gun.

Needless to say, Mr. Glue Gun and I had a disagreement of sorts, that is, 'where the glue should go after leaving the glue gun in it's melted state.'

You know how there is that old saying about not running with scissors? I think there needs to be a new one added about not using a hot glue gun after 10:00pm while still at work (when your day started at 7:30 am)

I know, I know - what in the world was I thinking using a hot glue gun at that time of night (I was thinking I wanted to get my project done and GO HOME!)

And those who know me well, I know you're thinking - Who gave that girl a High Temp hot glue gun? I thought you had a LOW melt hot glue gun (which still burns, by the way, still painful, just not as extreme)

Back to my story~ Having burned 2 of my fingers really bad, I decided to call it a night and go home. After bathing my fingers in some cold mustard from the fridge, I washed them off and took a look at the damage. Deciding that I preferred sleep over a field trip to the ER, I asked God to take the pain away and settled into bed with throbbing fingers.

The next morning was an early one, thankfully I awoke quite rested (thank you God!) Amazingly, my fingers were no longer throbbing! I unwrapped them, and made a face at what I saw (I will spare you the details). I threw some neosporan on, grabbed some gauze & some latex free taped and proceeded to tape my 2 middle fingers on my left hand together (the glue had run down between my fingers). so stability was important in my little task as I had a long day of wedding installation ahead of me and needed the use of both my hands. It is amazing what you can accomplish and push through when you have no other choice!

By late afternoon, I was done with my work day and heading home. As I was talking to my mom, she suggested that I stop by a friend's house (who is a nurse) and have her take a look.
Low and behold, during the day I had grown a blister ( a big one that I still have) on the one finger that I had not pulled off the glue - the other one I had made the mistake of pulling the cooled glue (along with other things) off. When she asked if it hurt, I was amazed to be able to say 'no' it was a little sensitive as we were messing with it - but no continuing pain! She bandaged me up, gave me some wonderful homemade peanut butter fudge (that was worth getting hurt for *wink, wink*) and sent me on my way.

Monday morning, I answered the phone to take an order. Only then did I realize how hard it is to type with 2 fingers taped together!! Those of you who have gotten emails from me recently - I apologize for all the typos! Hope you got a good laugh (I did!!) In fact I'm laughing now as I find out how quickly I was adapting to typing with only 3 fingers on my left hand. My 2 fingers are trying to figure out which keys to hit!!!

So today is day 1 of my fingers being free of the gauze wrap. They are venturing forth into the world today armed only with a band-aid.

They are free to type again!