Wounded, Day Three

Whenever you are sick or something happens it seems as if all of a sudden most people have had it happen to them or know someone who had it happen to or had that illness. It’s actually quite funny when you start paying attention to this. For instance I’ve seen quite a few scars on people’s fingers from where they have cut themselves in the past or better yet where a scar would have been from a cut except the doctor stitched it so well there is no scar.

Here are a few of the comments I’ve had so far about my finger.

1. Do you want me to get a $1.50 tube of Super Glue to glue it shut?

2. Where’s the rest of your glove? (referring to only one finger being covered with the bandage)

3. Aren’t you glad it wasn’t a different finger? (Actually been asked multiple times. And many, many people will tell you about someone who did have a big bandage on the middle finger proving my point from above.)

4. I’ll not repeat the one someone thought was funny referring to my index finger and my nose. It wasn’t funny.

5. Well, you really did try to cut your finger off.—the PA cleaning out the wound before suturing.

6. Better put the knife in the dishwasher. There's blood on it.

I took off the big white bandage last night to wash the wound and now have only a bandaid. I like the protection of the bigger bandage, but the bandaid is sufficient as it isn’t bleeding. Only once today have I grasped something and had it really hurt.

Bread 1, Rhoda 6 Stitches

Last weekend I made Avanti's bread. On Saturday afternoon I was slicing a piece from the end of the loaf when the bread knife slipped. My friend Renae took me to the ER and two hours later I left with 6 stitches.

I call it my $100 piece of bread--shown below but obviously thrown into the garbage.

The good thing is that the possibility of my playing the piano or ringing handbells professionally is not changed!

The stitches get taken out in 8-10 days.

Obama for President

I find it interesting that when I’ve asked people why they are supporting Obama for president the reason is that he is a uniter or that he is a change agent. They never give any of his policies or issues that they agree with.

I’m not sure uniting is the main criteria for voting for someone for president. The fact is that people only want unity if the other side of the aisle will compromise to side with them.

Is change just for change's sake necessarily good?

Click here to go to a good analysis of Obama from a layman’s perspective.

Interesting Facts

Some facts I learned today:

A study of 23,000 Greek adults showed people who napped regularly were 30 percent less likely to die of heart disease.--USA Today, 2/13/07 Archives of Internal Medicine

Women use an average of 16,215 words a day; men, 15,669--a difference that is not statistically significant.--Science, 7/6/07 University of Arizona

n a survey of 1,000 remote and mobile workers, 12% of men and 7% of women who telecommute said they sometimes wear nothing at all while working.--Management-issues.com, 3/02/06 Insight Express and SonicWALL

Only 44% of women and 33% of men who work remotely shower on work-at-home days.--Management-issues.com, 3/02/06

"Use of a cell phone while driving, handheld or hands-free, incerases your chances fourfold of being in a serious accident."--Insurance Institute for Highway Safety, 11/20/07 cnn.com

51% of drivers say they use a cell phone while driving; 32% read; and 70% eat.--Network of Employers for Traffic Safety (NETS), 11/20/07 cnn.com

"Almost one in four adults ages 18 to 50 has at least one tattoo."--USA Today, 11/21/07 northwestern.edu

38% of working dads would take a pay cut to spend more time with their kids.--CNN.com, 8/1/07 CareerBuilder.com

"37% of working dads say they'd leave their jobs if their spouse or partner made enough money to support the family."--CNN.com, 8/1/07 CareerBuilder.com

Winter Take 31

The weather has won out again. I was scheduled to go to Kalamazoo with a team I'm working on to go to the Michigan Blind Center, but the roads were too marginal for our drive down. Of course, by the time we would have arrived the roads would have been fine, but the first hour would have been bad. The call was for the lake effect snow to continue through today, but it has stopped now after dropping about a foot in the last 36 hours.

Life is Rough

This morning I had to laugh at the things we complain about. Notice I'm including myself in this. A lady in another department was lamenting that when she comes in in the morning the restroom closest to her is always closed for cleaning. Now if she had to go upstairs for the restroom this would be a bit more understandable, but the other restroom is about 40 feet across the lobby/meeting area.

Wow, our lives are rough.

Winter, Take 26

What do you know? It's snowing and very windy. Again.