A rather long story short, I was trimming my barn owner's mare, Izzy. It had gone really well, up until the last 3 rasp strokes on her last (left hind) foot. She lost her balance slightly, and her hoof slipped off the hoof jack. Would not have been a bad incident, except that has her foot fell, it caught my gloved hand between her un-rasped hoof wall and the hardened rubber topper of the hoof jack. At the time, it just hurt like the dickens, but a minute later when I took my glove off, I was greeted by an almost entirely-skinned thumb that was bleeding freely, and piebald bruised thumbnail.
I ended up getting 5 stitches put in, and honestly, the Novocaine needle experience has proved to have a longer-term effect than the actual stitches, it left a nice bruise at the base of my thumb that actually hurts more than the injury.
So anyway--doing my best to get that second part out to you. Just know that I'm typing with my hand wrapped like in the picture below ;)
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Sorry to hear about your thumb! That novacaine block does hurt like the dickens...I had my thumbnail bitten off once, and they had to stitch up my nail bed. Ouch! When they went to pull off the tiny piece of nail that was left, I found out that the block they had done was not a very good one. OWWWAAAA.
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