I had to take a picture of this to show you because if I told you that I had a 3/4" long piece of wood stuck inside my foot, you probably would have thought I was exaggerating. Here's the story: Last night I walked into the living room and felt a sharp pain pierce my foot. A giant splinter of wood went through my sock and into the bottom of my foot. Where this piece of wood came from is a mystery. There was about a 1/4" piece of the splinter sticking out, so I gently began to pull on it to get it out. Matters quickly worsened when that piece broke off. (Including the broken-off piece, the entire splinter was about an inch long! And thick!). Then, with none of the splinter to hold on to, I was forced to practically operate on myself. I finally got enough out to hold on to with tweasers. As I gently pulled out the splinter, I felt like I was in a horror movie- the wood just kept coming with no end in sight. It was awful. But, take a deep breath, the wood is out now and I feel much better. My foot is a little sore though. Do I need to get a tetanus shot?
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owwwwweeeeee crap that is crazy!!! I am so sorry. I dont think you need a shot, but I am not a doctor, I thought it was just for rusty stuff. Who knows, but that was HUGE! lots of love your way! lovejenn
OMG that sucks! I'm glad you were able to finally get it out. And that splinter was HUGE. I did the same thing with a piece of glass and it sucked because I could feel it but it was hard to see because it was clear. I don't think you'd need a tetanus shot though, lol.
Oh, dear. That must have hurt like the dickens. I'm glad you got it out! Flush it with hydrogen peroxide and keep it dry and clean at all times.
I agree, I don't think you need a tetanus shot unless it involves rusty metal.
Love the picture! (as if I would ever doubt anything you say!)Sorry about your foot. Have Lanie blow a kiss at it from me.
great picture!
This story is rife with opportunities for off-color jokes!
Thanks, everyone. It was quite the traumatic event.
Chris: You're funny. And bad. : )
Last night (before I read this, I just read it for the first time now), I was lying on the bed watching Flight of the Conchords. I had just put on a pair of socks and they were really slippy-slidy. I looked at our wood floor and thought, "I should slide along the floor, I bet I could go really far in these socks." But in a rare moment of letting the thought of consequences get in the way of fun, I thought, What if I slid right into a piece of wood sticking up, and it went WAY into my foot? So I didn't do it. But I was having these nightmare visions of wood deep in my foot.
And now I read this! I think it's one of those cosmic family-member things.
Oh, and Kim can vouch for me on A. getting me the socks, since I was barefoot and asked her to go grab some from down in the dryer for me, which she was kind enough to do, and B. the fact that she didn't tell me about your splinter--I see read it at 7:32 last night! So, nice job on the socks, Kim, but terrible job forgetting to tell me the splinter news! Now that I think about it, imagine how bad she would've felt if I'd gone ahead and slid, and gotten a splinter, knowing she just read about the horrors of wood floors and didn't inform me of them!
Jere, that IS weird! Totally a cosmic family-member thing, like twins have. If my friend Alicia reads this, hopefully she'll chime in on the subject since she and her sister are identical twins.
Ha! That is some freaky cosmic intuition thing going on there! Unfortunately that didn't work so well for my sister and I. When she broke her nose, I didn't know until my mom called me and told me!
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