I had 2 days off this week in which the weather was supposed to be perfect. My plan was to plant berries on both days, make a dent in my berry patch plans.
Here's what happened instead:
One of the dead stalks I was clearing out shattered in my hand. One shard drove straight into my thumb. It wasn't until I got the bleeding stopped and drove home to wash up, that I discovered a piece had been pushed further inside! The Dr at Urgent Care couldn't find it, either on X-ray or by digging into the wound, so she sent me home with antibiotics and said I was probably mistaken about the splinter.
This morning, it was swollen about 3 times its normal size, and as you can see it's a nice shade of purple. I've been soaking it in hot water with Epsom salts, but it hasn't stopped throbbing.
Lesson learned, no more bare-handed gardening! At least not when pulling weeds.
Yes, I am getting better about making sure I have the gloves on. I am beginning to have a few weeds in my Mel’s mix gardens in addition to rocks. These weeds have a tendency toward having non-apparent stickers.
Ouch!
More a landscaping than gardening heads-up, but I was doing some heavy pruning with a chainsaw on fruit trees earlier this week and while I was at it decided to take out some old hedges—and got into some poison ivy.
The urushiol doesn’t show up on skin until about 12 hours later, and I had to, uh, relieve myself and now I feel like a leper ... don’t worry, no pictures.
It’s been many years since `an ocean of calamine lotion,’ no fun.
Picked up some herbicide today. Watch out for poison ivy and oak, stay safe.