plastic surgery

Yes, I have taken the plunge and had plastic surgery. Did that get your attention? wondering where? Well, on my right thumb, that's where. Of course you know I have to be different (not to mention doing things the hard way!)

So instead of having plastic inserted, I had a small piece of latex removed. From under my thumbnail. It had lodged there when I scraped a bit of latex from one of our ice moulds off the table. Latex gets sticky and then brittle when it gets old, some of our moulds are 15 years old. I just absent mindedly scraped this brown sticky stuff off the table with my thumbnail and some of it got stuck under there. Two days later I'm in agony. Four days later hubby marched me to the GP, who refused to touch it, referred me to the plastic surgeon. Yesterday it was day surgery under general anaesthetic. Today very groggy and sore all over except for the thumb :) which is wrapped in a bandage the size of a golf ball. As you can see I can just manage to type... between dizzy spells.

Hope you're all staying well... and my new motto is if you see any brown sticky stuff leave it alone! (I think that has many applications, yes?) :)