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Sunday, February 24, 2008 - (see all news for this day)
smiley cut my thumb - 09:35 AM
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smiley cut my thumb really badly.
he wanted to snip the yarn that i was using since i'd come to the end of a small piece i was crocheting. he's been doing it for me on occasion for weeks now & has usually been pretty careful & followed my instructions.
this time, though, when i handed him my little crochet scissors, he opened them wide with both hands & just after i warned him, 'carefully!' he lunged forward with them & snipped them shut .. right through the tip of my thumb!
it bloody hurt! for a minute or so, i was thinking i might even need to get a stitch in it because it was quite deep. i didn't bother (since they probably would have made me wait days until i could have an appointment anyway) but it probably would have warranted at least one stitch.
i sufficed with one bandaid over the top & another one around the first one to help hold it in place.
part blessing, part curse, these scissors are actually real surgical scissors & so they're really, really, really sharp. if they'd been more blunt, i suppose they might not have cut as deeply, but then it would have been a really messy cut & hurt even more than it already did.
i was so angry with him. an accident is one thing, but that was blatant disregard & just being silly, stabbing forward like that with them.
that was yesterday (saturday the 23rd of feb), so i gave him another chance to show me that he can be careful by allowing him to cut the yarn again for me today .. i was a tad nervous. lol!
he proved that he could be careful, though, so i'm happier about that now.
today i have the bandaid off to let it air a bit. i guess i'll put another bandaid on later to help hold the two sides of the cut together & help it heal a little better.
at least it was on the tip, rather than right across the pad of my thumb. i can still use my thumb—gingerly—but if it was across the pad, i'd have a lot of trouble using my thumb normally.
i wonder if it'll scar? if it does, then i can use it to make smiley feel guilty in the future. lol!! i'm joking, i'm joking! mostly. 
you can click on the pic below if you want to see it bigger.
sorry about the cut. I know it hurt. Don't be tp hard on
smiley he didn't mean to cut you.
I'm with Bernie. I feel sorry for your pain, but there is no need to take it out on Smiley. You are the adult. He's just a kid and while he may seem mature to you, kids at his age still lack mental maturity and fine motorskills and I'm guessing this is why he spontaneously lunged forward and snipped them shut. Next time let him practice responsibiliy with something less dangerous. What if it had been his fingers?
Oh... it was cut to the side like that. No wonder you can only use it gingerly. I had a cut similar to that a couple of weeks ago, but that is a different story and not as interesting as yours.
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nasty one. call the doc for a closer look