Update, Bum Finger - seriously

Update on the writing front!

Okay, nothing too exciting, still doing the rewrite and re-edits of the 2nd H&S scifi romance book, but I'm getting through it!

My bum finger, however, that's a whole other ball game. Is it a whitlow? An infected finger? Or - horrors of horrors, surely it couldn't be...GOUT?????? I'm trying not to freak myself out. It's only sore, swollen and red from the first knuckle down, so I'm giving it a day or two before I hightail it to the doctor. I mean, if it's a whitlow, it should come to a head soon. If it's something else, well, I guess my finger will just drop off before I see the doctor. Once I see it drooping and waving goodbye to me, it's time. But maybe it won't do that. Maybe it'll just, you know, go away.
The swelling, not the finger.

I've been advised by another nurse to put a baking soda poultice on it, so I'm doing that in a minute.

Meanwhile, I'm typing with my forefinger carefully kept out of the way. I've only bumped it twice today with teeth-grinding results, so so far, so good.

Ahhh, life, you do know how to give me lemons!

BTW - good advice - do NOT Google pictures of whitlows! Freaked msyelf out yet again...
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Published on February 12, 2019 19:12 Tags: bum-finger, lemons, update
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message 1: by Mephala (new)

Mephala Damn, I hope your finger'll get better soon, and that it's not anything very serious. Yes, baking soda! My mom (also a nurse) always says it's amazing to "suck up" any infection.


message 2: by Angela (new)

Angela Verdenius Mephala wrote: "Damn, I hope your finger'll get better soon, and that it's not anything very serious. Yes, baking soda! My mom (also a nurse) always says it's amazing to "suck up" any infection."

I'd not heard of using baking soda for this kind of thing, but I'll try anything right now! Nothing has come so far from the poultice, I'm about to put a new one on as the one I put on last night well, that bandage I had stuck on it (my verison -'it's a finger of a glove cut off and put over my finger, then strapped on with Micropore tape) fell off this morning. Ahhh, nothing is truly water-proof!


message 3: by Mikaela (new)

Mikaela Hope your finger gets better soon!!


message 4: by Angela (new)

Angela Verdenius Mikaela wrote: "Hope your finger gets better soon!!"

Thanks Mikaela. It's all better now. Weird - it was throbbing and red all weekend then started to clear up on its own. One of life's great mysteries...*scracthing head*


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