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Upset is hardly the word: perplexed is much closer.
*sigh*
In any case: first blood drawn. The chicken buyers bent a piece of loose wire, the chickens tipped their water over and then fastened it to the ground with a loop of grass, and when the latter let loose I caught the back of my right hand on the former, tracing a six inch scratch parallel to the one inflicted by the kitten the other night, so that bandaging the new without ripping open the healing old is going to be a challenge.
I'm challenging my own record for fastest use of 100 assorted size flexible fabric bandages.
Mondays. Never did trust the things.
much better to forego the bandaid types and use, instead, gauze pads or commercial panti-liners, held on with athletic type bandaging tape, the waterproof stuff, run completely around whatever got savaged ... after a smidgen of Neosporin applied (actually vaseline is just as good)
experience from DH repeatedly bashing the top of his (more or less hairless) head on the bottom of the airplane's throttle-body or strakes -- ditto running hands into those or other stick-outy sharp pieces of metal or fiberglass
I developed an allergy to neosporin due to another of my multiple screw-ups; I have this nice viitamin E stick that I use for everything from under-eye moisturizer to wound dressing. And, while I always have bandaids (which are cheap and adaptable for many purposes), I do not in fact have any of those other things. I usually have Vetwrap around to use with clean rag for larger or flatter applications, but that wouldn't be applicable to these scratches. These two scratches are tricky because they're on the back/outside of my thumb, the cat one on the web-side from the second thumb joint spiralling to the wrist and the wire one right at the ball of the thumb spiralling around and crossing the other one.
I used to just butterfly that kind of injury with paper tape, but the latex free kind is NASTY: doesn't hold any tension and the glue turns to guck in about an hour.
I looked at the wire I got cut on, because it had been safely bent and crimped, and all I can figure is that it was caught on the chicken in a box when he was passed protesting out of the hoop house.
May I join in too?
