March 14th 2010 – Cecilia’s Thumb
Sunday, March 14, 2010 at 06:50PM Cecilia arrived this morning as normal. I immediately went out to check out her thumb. It only had a smallish gauze bandage over it.
Don’t read the next paragraph if you are squeamish! Skip to the “uck” paragraph.
She was quick to show me the damage though. And it was UGLY. Not as bad as I had feared, but bad enough. With the machete, she had sliced off a small portion of “meat” (that is what they call it) on the top of the knuckle of her thumb and the blade then dug into her thumb nail at about mid point and looked like it came very close to severing that.
Uck. It looked very painful. She said it wasn’t too bad at that point but it hurt very badly last night. And then later, after she had cleaned up from her walk to the Pastoral House from Alejandria, she was standing out in the back yard pouring hydrogen peroxide over it to really clean it. That hurt she said.
My tummy cringes at the thought of that pain. She had more gauze to put over it but nothing to secure it with. I had Band-Aids, so we ended up using one instead of bandage tape which we don’t have.
She is pretty much going about her business today. But tomorrow, when it comes time for doing her boy’s uniforms after school, I think I’ll push her away from the pila!
Reader Comments (1)
It looked really gross. I couldn't believe it when I walked into her room that day and saw her ironing. That woman can do anything.