stitches

3.

Across the side of my left hand. Now I can't do anything weight bearing with my hand. Typing is done with just my middle finger...don't know how gaming will go.

I pulled a ring pull lid off a can of salmon at lunch and it unexpectedly released more on one side than the other so I swung the sharp edge across my hand. A 1.5cm long and 5mm deep laceration resulted. Kind of puts me off tinned salmon.

I waited in emergency for 2 hours, fortunately with a well bandaged hand. When the nurse took the bandage off to check if it needed stitching (as there was a long queue and I wasn't very high up it if it didn't need stitching) it started bleeding nicely again, but it had mainly stopped when the doctor called me 10 minutes later.

He started cleaning it before putting local in - which made the rather painful local seem relatively mild :) I think that might have been a clever psychological trick.

Now I can't get it wet for a week, need to change my bandage twice a day and get stitches out in a week. The pharmasist siad take pain killers as soon as it starts to throb or they won't work as well. One of my co-workers said to take some before bed so I don't wake up in pain.

These are the first stitches I've ever had not under a general (I had my wisdom teeth out under general).

Sydney dinners

I was in Sydney for a conference the other week. I spent my travel time dodging FIFA celebrations and the state of origin match. The trip back home had full planes due to it being the day after state of origin and the day before the V8's in Tville.

I did have some nice meals while I was there...
Pork belly at the restaurant at the Novotel where I stayed. - lovely but waaay too much for me to get through


Peri peri chicken (assuming I remember the name) also at my hotel - forgot to photograph it till I'd eaten some






entree at the conference dinner

hmm - the rest are on my phone and I'm too tired to figure out how to download them.