My thumb is healing

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I don't remember if I ever even posted about the thumb debacle. I cut it really badly on Saturday night. A secretary at work wanted us to collect can tabs over the summer for some charity thing, so I decided to do so. I was trying to get a tab off of a can of cheddar soup when I was making my mac and cheese, and I cut my left thumb very deeply. It bled and bled and bled horribly to the point where I thought I was going to have to call an ambulance. We had been out drinking earlier in the day so I knew I wouldn't have been able to drive myself to the ER. Anyway, I decided that I couldn't be bothered to go to the ER for stitches and just settled for doing band-aids and Neosporin antibiotic ointment. It was very sensitive for the first 2 or 3 days and would bleed crazily if it was hit the wrong way, but then it settled down. I realized over the weekend that I hadn't had a tetanus shot in over 10 years, so I got myself to my employer's health clinic for one on Tuesday--3 days after the cut happened. I figured that I wasn't down for getting lockjaw this summer, so I called the clinic and asked if they did tetanus shots and they said they did. When I got there, the doctor looked at the slice, said that it was healing nicely, and went on her way. A nurse came in to give me the shot which was actually a combo for diptheria, pertussis, and tetanus. My left shoulder has been sore for 2 days from that shot, but I can still easily open my jaw so I'm happy for that. Today I took the band-aid off of my thumb and was happy to see that the slice seems to have almost closed up at least. The human body is amazing.