Well, I must admit that I usually hurt myself when I'm in a hurry. This past Saturday, we were going to go up to Orillia in the morning to visit family, leave the girls there for a week's holiday, travel to Lindsay, take the boys out for dinner for David's birthday, go to Heritage Christian School for Garry Schubert's retirement party, and then travel home because I was supposed to play organ Sunday morning.
We make plans, but God directs our steps...
I ended up smashing a glass while taking it out of the cupboard. I think I hit the hood of the stove in my haste, and it broke and cut my hand in the process. I had small cuts on my thumb and ring finger, and my little pinky...well it didn't fair quite so well...
I kinda knew right away that it was going to take more than a bandage job.
Rick took me to Mac and a wonderful, friendly, gentle doctor from Uganda stitched me up.
The cut was deep enough to let me see some exciting stuff, but thankfully there seems to be no nerve damage. Once the finger was frozen, I watched the stitching. Amazing stuff what these doctors and nurses do day in and out. Amazing. It is always inspiring to just contemplate what they do while you're sitting there waiting for their help. I just thank God that it was not a very serious injury and I am so thankful that He is the great physician who will heal this little finger. Four stitches later, a tetanus shot to the arm, and we were out of there in under two hours.
Our trip to Orillia was delayed by about 4-5 hours, but we did manage to fit in all the activities we had planned on participating in. It was a very late night, or should I say early morning when we got back to Burlington. I suppose I will need another week off from playing the organ so that the finger will be ready to play the keys again. Sometimes we just need to slow down...
(My apologies to those who do not like pictures of a "graphic" nature.) This blog will eventually be made into a book, so this is more for my records AND for my curious sister who is disappointed the stitches will dissolve and disappear and she won't be able to remove them for me.
Incredible how the body heals.
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