Bloody but unbowed

[petronia]

Second emergency-room visit in a month due to getting fingers of right hand slammed in garage door. No bones broken, and the cut is surprisingly small for something that was literally GUSHING BLOOD at first; sliced the artery I guess. XD; I had to tourniquet it with a rubber band. It had mostly stopped bleeding by the time I got to the hospital so was resigned to waiting forever, but it was "only" ~5 hours (two of those for the X-ray to develop). Hilariously enough it was Damaged Limbs Day, there were like four other people there with various creative hand lacerations and several more with burns and fractures, including this one polio-survivor guy with a broken foot on his non-mobile leg.

What I dislike much more than minor injury: the body's shock reaction. First-aid training gone instinct does kick in, but one only has a minute-long grace period to do anything useful with a clear head before the ringing in the ears and the nausea and the strong desire to lie down start, like being on the wrong side of really drunk. I have never fainted all the way in my life because I fight it like a bitch, it feels like a personal offense to have one's brain blue-screen like a virus-ridden copy of WinFail 98. XD;

At least this time I could read (Spanish/French edition of Historia universal de la infamia - reading Borges isn't an efficient way to study Spanish, but it's a fun way to study Borges, breaking out his hypallages and connoisseur Argentine slang for consideration. Also French and Spanish have the wackiest false friends: tergiversar means something completely different from tergiverser, wha?).

In other news, more recs on DW - some of you might want to check it out cos I review your stuff (inadequately). XD; Also the SSBB deadline is tonight.

Comments

[marej.livejournal.com]

it feels like a personal offense to have one's brain blue-screen like a virus-ridden copy of WinFail 98. XD;

OH YOU! take care of your self! *smooch*

[petronia.livejournal.com]

I am! The universe clearly has it out for me, I would stay in bed til the 31st if the weather weren't so nice. XD;

[z107m.livejournal.com]

Second emergency-room visit in a month

Dude! You tempting fate or something here? Approaching quarter-life recklessness? :b
Seriously, be careful with yourself, a body can only handle so much.

[petronia.livejournal.com]

Quarter-life recklessness was signing up for the MBA imo. XDD But thanks!

[z107m.livejournal.com]

No, an MBA is practicality! I'm ashamed to say, you and several of my friends will be completing your MBA's before I get my damn Ph.D. :b

[arboretum]

Ahhhhh, scary business, do take care of yourself, sounds like all kinds of weird crap has been happening to you recently :/

[dipping_sauce]

STOP GETTING HURT >:(

[canis-m.livejournal.com]

D: Odaiji ni ;;;;;;;

[calintz.livejournal.com]

DDDDD: No more hospital-bound adventures for you!

[flemmings.livejournal.com]

Ouch. Take care of yourself.

(In a garage door? You mean the people door, yes? not the big roll-up car door?)

I have always been grateful that my shock reaction period is measured in hours rather than minutes (or seconds, for some people I know.) Everything necessary gets done and *then* the blinding migraine begins.

[petronia.livejournal.com]

In the people door, yes - the car door has the virtue of being a slow-moving opponent. XD

I can take everything except the nausea, for some reason that feels like insult piled upon the original injury!

[tongari.livejournal.com]

I hope you are feeling a lot better now! I mean obviously well enough to type this entry, but I'm guessing only with only your left hand.

take careeeee

[petronia.livejournal.com]

Left hand + three fingers on right; punctuation may be dodgy. XD;

[worldserpent.livejournal.com]

Eeep, hope that you feel better.

Oh, you're studying Spanish now?

[petronia.livejournal.com]

Thanks!

Not in a formal way, just my usual delusion that if I keep reading in a language I don't know I'll eventually know it. XD;

[koganbot]

At least this time I could read (Spanish/French edition of Historia universal de la infamia - reading Borges isn't an efficient way to study Spanish, but it's a fun way to study Borges...

When I went to the urgent care walk-in unit for my shoulder I brought Heidegger's The Question Concerning Technology. At times the pain was insistent enough to provide a pleasant distraction from the reading.

[koganbot]

(This is not to meant to disparage the content of the Heidegger, about which I have no opinion, owing to my not being able to figure it out.)

[petronia.livejournal.com]

That's pretty scary coming from you. XD;

[bladderwrack.livejournal.com]

D: Take care! >:E

[two-if-by-sea.livejournal.com]

Augh, you seem so calm about the "SLICED AN ARTERY I GUESS" sentence. I'm glad it wasn't too terrible though, despite the fainting and all.

[subaru-san.livejournal.com]

Oh, you're on Dreamwidth too? Same account name? I actually took the opportunity to get one on there that I could never have gotten here, "tenkuu".

As for your injury, you're pretty strong not to have fainted. One time when I was younger (maybe 16), I had fainted once from falling off my bike on the street. I don't even remember how it happened, but while I was unconscious, I dreamt of everything that happened after I fainted, including what people around me were saying. I wonder if that's usual for people who faint?