Working in a lab, as I do
a few years ago I got the classic science injury.

I was pushing a glass tube into a plastic tube. It was a tight fit. So tight, in fact, that as I pushed I started doing so a little off centre, which applied enough lateral force to cause the glass tube to snap and the jagged end of it was pushed into the end of my thumb with some considerable pressure.

It created a circular hole, like coring an apple, and bled like buggery.*

About two months later it became sore again, and I noticed something below the skin. A few moments of investigation with a pair of sharp tweezers revealed a little shard of glass, which I had to extract. Nice.

*I don't actually know how much bleeding buggery would cause. It's just a figure of speech.
( K2k6 has a proper job these days, Mon 20 Jul 2009, 9:24, 1 reply, 16 years ago)

I'm quite happy doing minor surgery like that on myself
but when other people do it I turn into a bit of a wimp.
( Noeli overtheshoulderboulderholderthingstraplatchboobs, Mon 20 Jul 2009, 9:34, Reply)