and now, Wincing In Sympathy Theatre presents...

[spatch]

Question: Where's the worst place to get a paper cut?
Question, Qualifier: I mean, above the waist^*?

Answer: The little fleshy part between your thumb and index finger. Ow.

Question, Rhetorical: How can something so superficial be such a pain?

Fetch forth the Bactine, Prudence! Or a Band-Aid at the very least.





* Feel free to make your own Chess jokes here about where one receives one's kicks; typing is a bitch for me right now.

Comments

[fancycwabs.livejournal.com]

Once in high school we were riding in the car and passing a sheet of paper from the back seat to the front seat and a friend of mine got a paper cut on his eyeball.

[phonemonkey.livejournal.com]

*claps hand over eye and makes whimpering noises*

[spatch]

good LORD.

I think my original post has just been invalidated.

[phonemonkey.livejournal.com]

Nowhere near as bad, but the philtrum is also an unpleasant place to get one. (Don't ask how, really.)

[fancycwabs.livejournal.com]

Did it involve an artificial mustache?

[fancycwabs.livejournal.com]

I'd imagine that it probably hurts a LOT worse to begin with, but since you don't flex your eyeball much it probably doesn't hurt for as long.

I had Radial Keratonomy (warning, Wikipedia entry involves gruesome injuries) done on one eye when I was in college and on my parent's health plan (which, for some reason, covered it)--I don't remember anything being particularly painful after the anesthesia wore off. I imagine it would have hurt like a mother during the surgery without whatever they use to deaden it, however. And the Valium.

[aliiyf.livejournal.com]

Aieee! A new thing to constantly worry about.

[dogofthefuture.livejournal.com]

This is my nightmare.

[minkrose]

I did that the other day! ack. 'cept I kind of tore at the skin with the edge of one of those name-letter stickers that gets folded over the end of the patient's chart/file/thingie. The corners on the folded stickers are really sharp and as I pushed a file into the filing shelves, it tore through the skin right between my thumb and index finger. Bad enough that I get paper cuts from all the paper I handle (letters, patient info, photocopying), but the damn stickers... argh.

At least as a Dermatologist's office, we have lots of band-aids around! and Bacitracin.

[phonemonkey.livejournal.com]

Quickest way to count up just how many papercuts you receive in the course of duty: go to the kitchen, make some tea and squeeze half a lemon in.

You will find them ALL.

[reveritas.livejournal.com]

oh my christ, your icon.

O_O

[phonemonkey.livejournal.com]

Ah yes.

I found that sweet potato while making Thanksgiving preparations, but it was tansu that gave it its name.

[mybadhairlife.livejournal.com]

Actually, I also dispute the location thing. I have one under my thumbnail right now and it hurts way worse than the time that I sliced open the spot between my thumb and index finger (still have the scar from that one, though.)

no one else did...

[eclecticavatar.livejournal.com]

I don't see you guys rating the kind of mate I'm contemplating.
I'd let you watch, I would invite you
But the queens we use would not excite you

*smooch*

[spatch]

So you better go back to your bars, your temples...
your massage parlors...

[sanspoof.livejournal.com]

I was gonna say,

Not much is known
Of how this superficial injury could cause so much distress
Unless one looks to useful models: sensory homonculus's giant hands.

[mrscake.livejournal.com]

Ouch, I've had that happen to me too.

Random

[bostonista.livejournal.com]

stomach malady