More Thanksgiving Fun...At the ER

Well now, what fun would thanksgiving day be without a trip to the ER? Because we eat our thanksgiving dinner at 1:00 p.m. in the afternoon due to our guests all being in their 80's, we were the first "thanksgiving day related incident" at the hospital.

As Dot was cleaning up the kitchen, she was in a needless hurry. She went to pull the electric cord of the electric knife out of the socket...by about 12 inches up the cord I might add, violating all rules of electrical socket safety. Since the cord was apparently greasy, her hand slipped, and came flying back hitting the bottom of the upper cabinets.

Well, she hit the top of her thumb, right above the knuckle at just the right angle that she sliced it open. Remember the Saturday Night Live skit about Julia Child with the blood spraying out everywhere? That was Dot in the kitchen. It wouldn't stop bleeding. Four stitches later and this idiotic cast you see depicted in the picture, and she's MAJORLY bummed. Her Manila trip has been postponed a day later. She must see a hand specialist, as they fear she may have severed or partially severed the tendon in her thumb. Ergo the cast. It must be immobilized until they figure that out. Apparently if the tendon is severed, moving her thumb around would make it worse.

We tried like mad to find a hand speciallist today, Black Friday, but they're all apparently out at the stores trying to get a deal on a large screen Tv. NOBODY was open today. She has an appt for Monday morning. Barring any complications, she'll board her flight for Manilla on Tuesday.