There is an alien in my finger...and it hurts!
I have been in a fair amount of pain these last few days watching my finger expand. A week ago I bit some dead skin off the side of this finger next to the nail, you know how we do sometimes without thinking?
It became infected and began to fill up with puss & blood. The pain was all the time but particularly intense when it was touched, which I kept doing accidentally. And boy, everyone knew about it when I did! We don't have painkillers in our home so the last two nights were particularly tough to get through.
I imagined there would come a moment when I felt ready to stick a pin in this beauty and release the pressure, but the pain was so intense whenever I tried.
Yesterday afternoon I couldn't take it any more and called Sabrina's mum who has an extensive collection of painkillers due to her stomach cancer. She brought me some Doliprane (paracetamol) and some 20mg vials of Acupan which she told me was similar to morphine.
This stuff sounded perfect but after necking one of these vials an hour later I was still finding the pain to be particularly intense and now spreading from my finger to my hand and wrist.
If Doliprane & a morphine equivalent weren't cutting it, I figured there must be something significantly wrong in there, so accepted my fate and agreed to go to the A&E dept of our nearest hospital.
After an anaesthetic jab to the base of the finger they cut it open and let it drain. Despite feeling very little at this point I couldn't watch. But was able to take this shot just before they cleaned & bandaged it.
Last night I slept like a baby and bounced out of bed at 4.30am still with no pain.
It is amazing how wonderful it feels today to simply be alive with no feeling of discomfort to distract me.
Every moment I am smiling and grateful 😃
The contrast created by three days of pain has reminded me of the perfection of life when it is pain free!
This is what my hand looks like now.
Moral of the Story
Don't bite that dead bit of skin off the side of your fingers!
And know that if you are not experiencing pain there is nothing which can cut you off from the pure unadulterated joy of simply being alive.
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suggestion , just in case you forget and bit your hangnail again :D
-soak it in hot water with raw sea salt for 10 minute, every hour.
....I'm an old school army medic- this is my go-to remedy for ANY enclosed infections
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Fantastic! I wondered if there was a simple solution which didn't involve cutting it open.
Thank you so much for sharing your wisdom :)
And to think that I had everything I needed in the house already... haha!
Nature is so amazing.
Hey Sam! It's been awhile as we've been here and there interacting with so many other Steemians that we lose track of those ones we used to talk to. It's not a bad thing as we want to support as many people as we can. We are loving how others are contributing to the platform.
Anyway, we hope to have a speedy recovery and we'll take your lesson seriously. This Sam (from @travelling-two) likes to chew his nails and everything around it too. Saves doing a manicure, but doesn't save a potential trip to the A&E. 😜 Hope all is well in France!
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Great that you have been off making new friends here! That's what it's all about. Appreciate you returning to say hello. Many don't ;)
Yes, Sabrina loves to bite her fingers to shreds and has never experienced this so am imagining there is another factor here... yet to be discovered!
Feeling on top of the world today with no pain and no need for pain killers.
Struggling with my usual touch typing pace however ;)
Big love from the mountains!
No worries Sam! We'll swing back from time to time. Since we last spoke, we've made a ton of friends and joined a few Discord group.
Biting finger nails is a bad habit, but Sam (@travelling-two) can't seem to shake it off! It's good to hear you don't need pain killers.
It will take time to heal like with most things. Just enjoy the serenity of the mountains surrounding you.
Big sweaty hugs from humid Bangkok!
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Damn, that looks bad. Have to wonder what you had been eating before.
Hope you get better.
The pain was... pretty special shall we say! Don't recall feeling anything quite like that before. So much better today and still feeling grateful for every pain free moment :)
Didn't eat anything unusual. Hmmm.... now I come to think about it I've been eating cheese since returning to France after not eating it for two years in Bali. I wonder if this could be something to do with it?
Hmmm.... I didn't think cheese could be the reason but then you never know.
Wow everything you went through biting a skin part. Fortunately you are already improving =)
So much better today I just can't tell you how good it feels to not feel bad!
Biting that part of the nail is something one does unconsciously most of the time. By the time you realise your mistake it may get infected and the pain is usually out of the world. Have gone that road twice. Now I just resist the temptation to touch that part of the nail. Nice to see you got a fix. Take care.
Totally unconscious! Didn't think about it at all till I saw the infection and made the connection.
Lesson learned ;)
I've heard of such home remedies as mentioned by the user on the top comment. It helps alleviate the pain too. I hope it's better now.
lol... so you rather took some lab-made heroin instead of the needle pin or going straight to the doctor?!? Very manly, I have to say, Mr d'Artagnan-moustache^^
Weird that @abusereports has downvoted your comment here?
Yeah, just between you and me I really fancied getting my hands on some of her morphine ;)
If you check the top comment here you will see what I actually should have done! Lesson learned.
That was one of berniesanders gulag accounts, because I disagreed with him and now I just made him more angry with this post. He will probably also downvote this comment. Sorry for that.