Thursday, October 15, 2009

Swollen Thumb

Lately, I've been preparing dinner at home(when I say this, I meant for our family, not just Renee's :D) and after our Japanese curry chicken wings dinner few days ago, I thought to prepare another simple meal yesterday since we've got fresh foodstock. I have alot more ingredients than usual to put into our soup this time and I was happily chatting with Renee whilst trying to slice off some pumpkin, not paying much attention since it's not the first time I'm handling such a big half of a pumpkin. I've never thought that pumpkin flesh could actually hurt so badly and as I sliced into it, its flesh sinked under my nail and dug into the bed of my thumb, OUCH! bloody....

It was still ok albeit some soreness but when I woke up this morning, oh man, my thumb's swollen! In fact, I couldn't even have a good night sleep as I was feeling the pain all through the night. This is how it looked this morning... not that bad right? But I tell you, it's super painful and piercing even! I can't even touch a single thing nor do anything with my thumb. I have to try lift off the pot/steamer's cover with my left hand, which is not as agile and thus, got steam burnt a couple of times, though nothing serious 'cos I tried to be extra careful since I can't afford to have my left hand hurt as well.

Not sure if you can see the lower white coloured line under my nail - that's how deep the pumpkin flesh has dug into

In the afternoon, just when I thought it was going to get better, I had to hit my thumb onto something each time I do some chores and thus, the soreness shot up and it's got much redder(my cam can't really relay it though) and the 'white line' has become a greyish patch:

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