Who needs a finger tip anyway?

Ok, before we start and before anyone else points it out, I realize I look tired. It's really not the look of tired as much as it was stress - and pain.

I'm kinda flipping you off in this picture. It's not on purpose - ok, so depending on who you are it might be - I'm just showing you the wonderful thing I did at work yesterday.

I was cutting my last client of the day and cut a hole in my finger. It's not the pad, it's more on the side, but just as large. It's probably about the size of a jelly belly - I think.

*Not for the squeamish*

The blood that came from my finger was crazy. I knew the second that I did it that it was bad. It didn't take long to bleed, but before it started REALLY bad, I could see that it wasn't a slice, but that there was a chunk missing.

Blood was dripping on the top of my vanity while people were trying to tell me what to do. We have guidelines that we must follow - and I was trying to follow them - but there was so much blood.

We have a lady that works there that we call the voodoo doctor. She used to be a flight nurse, so we rely on her quite a bit to help in times like these.

She came to my vanity to put a band-aid on it. I knew that I needed to apply pressure to it, but there was no skin there and it hurt like hell. She put a band-aid on it, but it was so tight that my finger tip was turning purple. That obviously wasn't going to work.

She put gauze on it and then a band-aid, but it didn't take long for the blood to soak through that. I thought I should have a stitch, but people kept saying that the doctors wouldn't stitch it and to 'suck it up'. Oh yes they did!

Get this! We even found my piece of skin on the floor. That was when my client got a bit icked out. Finally I just put a glove on and finished up her hair. I had her dry it while I figured out my next step.

The picture you see is of a wrap that LaVonna (the voodoo doctor) did for me. It hurts, but I'm trying to figure out how on earth I'm going to work like this. I obviously can't get it wet because the bandage will fall off.

I'm wondering how on earth I'm going to wash my own hair? Speaking of my hair - should we talk about it? :D

I look dead. Does anyone else see the brown bags under my eyes? Are we still talking about my throbbing finger? Just wondering. :) I just realized that I look like I have only one earring on making me look like a pirate. I had the other one on too - it was just turned.

Whatever. The point is that I cut my finger tip....thing....off....and it hurts. And I thought you should know about it.