Insuring My Hand
I’m writing this with a very very sore mouse hand and thinking, not for the first time, should I insure my right hand?
Only ten minutes ago I had just put the children to bed for the evening, and was wrestling with a cheap bottle opener, trying to fight my way into a bottle of wine - the better bottle opener was broken last weekend by a house guest - when suddenly the entire end comes off it exposing a sharpe metal prong which I promptly sliced my hand through.
So I immediately inspect the damage and see large gouge marks - one on my index finger and the other on my palm and wait for the pain to commence. I realise that I have no plasters at all in the house, because someone was asking for one on Tuesday and I didn’t find one.
This forces me to improvise - I of course wanted to go onto my computer as planned this evening and add some entries to my new blog but doing so with blood oozing off my hand wasn’t going to fly.
Thus as I type my gouged hand is covered in my own ‘home made plaster’ - comprising of tissue over the gashes with black tape holding it in place. My assessment is that the black tape is doing a good job.
I must say considering the fair size of the gashes the pain is fairly low - certainly less than when a cat scratches you (do they have poisen in their nails!?)
The wine is now sitting on the kitchen table with a dangerous object poking out of the top, and I’m sitting here drinking weight watchers wine left by a house guest last weekend - it has a screw top lid. Oh well, I do need to loose weight I guess.
So should I insure my hand? It is my livelihood, and my livelihood would end if anything stopped me from operating a mouse.
What would I do with myself? Perhaps I’d become a writer and use a voice activated writing programme, they are supposedly very advanced now.
April 12th, 2007 at 2:18 pm
Well my method is to generally keep purchasing cheap bottle openers, generally they become bent, or broken at some point
I must say it does develop one good strong arms though wrestling with wine bottles of a weekend…
April 24th, 2007 at 1:21 pm
It could be worse. I grabbed a glass which fell from a high cupboard. As I did so it broke against the cupboard door.
I sliced the little finger tendon longitudinally. It looked like a split sausage.
If it was transverse it would have required microsurgery.
Spent the day in Selly Oak Hospital with a really strange man from Iraq (I think) who couldn’t see and was dressed like Columbo. :/
April 24th, 2007 at 1:40 pm
It could definitely be worse. I’m very careful to not have accidents though…I’ve never been to an accident and emergency room for myself in my life (have been twice for my blinkin son however, nightmare) so far and never even broken a bone yet!
It’s like an event looming over me actually…like I think “One day you will break something, it’s got to happen some day, you can’t avoid it for ever”
You know my hand really hurt for about a week or more afterwards though even though it was a quite minor accident……..it was actually quite deep really I think……..sniff
One’s hands are quite important as a designer. I even can’t wear false nails very often, even though I like wearing them, because my fingers slip off the keyboards a lot then.
I do loads and loads of typing; this blog, articles for the site, emails discussing projects, quotations….the list goes on. Luckily I can touch type at high speed, I don’t know how business owners who can’t touch type get their work done each day - I’m typing something or other all day long it seems.