The Bleeding has Stopped

Yesterday, while preparing the dinner for our Bible Study group, Eva sliced a part off of her thumb. She came to my office so I could help her stop the bleeding. I applied a tourniquet with bailing twine and then we went back into the house to the scene of the crime. As I looked at the vegetable slicer, I thought I saw a sliced garlic clove, but it in fact was part of Eva. We tenderly picked up the piece of thumb and put it back onto the wound and then called MaryJo for further directions.

MaryJo said, "Don't use a tourniquet, just apply direct pressure, apply some antibiotic ointment, a dressing and then wait to see what happens. If it keeps bleeding, starts to throb, or gets infected go to ER." Eva felt fine after the initial shock of just looking at it, so we continued with dinner preparations - Eva gave directions and I followed them the best I could.

The dinner guests all loved the vegetarian lasagna!

Before Eva went to bed Monday night, I changed the dressing again and it looks like the "sliced garlic clove" is adapting nicely.