I Hurt Myself!

So this isn't exactly news, seeing as it happened almost a week ago, but I've been busy.

So, story time (there won't be pictures because it's pretty gross)!

As some people may know, I work for a small airline as a ramp attendant. This means that I have to take carts of bags and take them to the plane (there's a lot more, but that's all that's important to this story).

So, I was at work, and I pulled a cart out of the baggage area. This cart weighed a total of about 600 pounds, and I had to pull it by hand to my vehicle where I was going to attach it to the back of another cart. Now as you can imagine 600 pounds carries a lot of momentum, so what often ends up happening is that we just line up the hitch with the pin of the cart we're attaching it to and let the two carts hit each other. They're very tough so this doesn't damage them.

So I'm pulling this cart towards the other cart, line up the hitch, and somehow fail to get my thumb out of the way before impact. So my thumb took the entire impact of a 600 pound cart going at a reasonable speed (the ground was sloped)... Ouch.

So my boss took me to the hospital. I got an x-ray, and amazingly nothing is broken! There's a fair bit of damage to the blood vessels (more on that in a minute), and some other damage to the tissues, but that's about it.

Now, because of the blood vessels breaking, there was a lot of blood pooling under my nail, so the doctor drilled through it to relieve the pressure. It was honestly the worst part of the whole experience.

Anyways, They gave me t3s for the pain, and I was back at work two days later (probably not the brightest idea, but there you go. My brain was pretty foggy from the drugs anyways).

So why am I writing this?

Well, I'm on my first day of my week off, and it still hurts a lot, and of course it's my right thumb so I can't do pretty much anything I like. I can't hold a pen or pencil, I can't hold my violin bow, I can't operate all the buttons on my camera (another reason why there aren't any pictures), and I can't go sledding (the snow looks great) because I don't want to hurt it any more.

So basically, I wrote this blog post out of extreme boredom.

Shouldn't I be studying or something? Probably.