One somewhat exciting thing that happened to me this last week was that I cut my thumb open while chopping onions at work. I have never cut myself so bad! I almost cut the tip of my thumb completely off. I was very flustered when it happened because there was a lot of blood and I was at work so I wasn't sure how to handle it. Luckily a co-worker (Candice) walked me to the backroom, set me up with a bag of cayenne pepper (which apparently stops the bleeding...on small cuts and scrapes - but I don't think they realized how bad my injury was) and a towel. Michelle, my friend in Produce was back there getting some broccoli ready and so she saw how distressed I was and told me stories and interesting facts to keep my mind and eyes off of the injury. Candice got all my first aid needs (ice, towel, band-aid [she really didn't understand how bad it was], etc) and Mark just stood there looking helpless, and tried thinking of anything he could do to help. So after about 15 minutes of non-stop bleeding and pain and filling the bag of cayenne with my blood, we got the Vitamin/Health Specialist Richard to come check it out, and he took one look and said "Woah, go have them stitch it up...That's why we have insurance!" So we called my manager and she said to go to Doctors on Duty, Mark was nominated to drive me, so we clocked out and headed there. Long story short, got a shot to numb the area which hurt like no other and then got 3 stitches in my thumb. Here are a couple of pictures from my cell phone so the quality isn't so great, but you get the basic idea.
that's my thumb in a bag of cayenne and blood, inside a gnarly bag of ice.
that's my thumb before the operation. ouch!
and after. 3 stitches! First time in my life.
Pretty exciting, huh?
