Bit of a bumper day out in London for me. Ophthalmologist at 11, just had an MRI and got an appointment with my main consultant and his team at 4.15. Best find a café…
Full service?
If I press really hard on the thin blisters on my enormous slaphead and roll my fingers, I can cover the mirror in splatters. Lovely.
Changed the dressing today. Here’s the ‘Don’t run with scissors’ pic
The cut was not so wide. But it was plenty deep.
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That finger looks swollen like a chipolata - Is it still painful?
Is driving difficult?
It is swollen quite a bit. The nurse who checked it after 48 hours said fingers tend to do that, mostly as a response to the trauma but possibly also because the swelling around the cut has shut off fluid drainage channels. The main thing is that nothing is red and angry and there’s no weeping from the cut. The stitches sting a bit if I inadvertently move my finger in a way that pulls on them. And the numbness/tingling in the finger itself hasn’t gone away. But otherwise the initial pain is fading quite fast.
I haven’t driven since Sunday. I think it might be a bit awkward, especially when changing gear, but unless some desperate need arises I’m minded to let Mrs VB sit behind the wheel.
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I did run it under the tap when I first did it. Which is pretty much the same, isn’t it ?
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Healed! 
…actually looking at what’s in the pots above - it’s a good thing the “Bryonia alba” is VERY dilute - white bryony is chock-full of toxic alkaloids… 
Excellent !
Do you have any ?
While I was in college one of the perennials in the decorative border, which had been there years, was found to be deadly nightshade. Not some distant relative, but the real thing. It was doing pretty well in the sunny windless environment. They did take it away though 
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Funnily enough, I used to see bryony scrambling up fences and trees in parks, gardens and campuses all over Oxford - it must find the local soil and climate much to its liking, as I’ve never seen it much elsewhere - its toxicity was evidently unrecognised! To be fair, its smell is so strong and so obnoxious that anyone daft enough to ingest it is probably best allowed to remove themselves from the gene puddle…
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Mrs VB spent part of Thursday clearing a length of one of our borders with a view to putting a few herbs and veg in.
I might go across to the other side of the garden and start a ‘poisons patch’ 
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Get some of this in.
Not much feckin chance of anyone on here accidentally poisoning themselves, is there? 'Cept Wayne maybe 
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That’s just a cock and ball story…
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One of his best
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