The thing about the opposable thumb is that you do not notice it until it does not function correctly. You can achieve this effect by breaking a glass pasteur and shoving the jagged end into the end of the opposable thumb, and spending the rest of the day (and the next, so far) with a whopping great field dressing on it.
Have you any idea how difficult it is to wind or use a Gilson with a non-functional dominant thumb? Or how tacky red smears look on a white keyboard? The only good thing is that I had already Hibiscrubbed my hands and sprayed them with 70% ethanol and the hood was sterile, so I should not be too worried about infection.
And another hint for you: Always check your ice bucket for colourless, transparent tubes before you tip the ice into the sink and go home. Otherwise you might be looking in the sink for a PCR reaction in the morning.
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ajajaj (aka oooach)! That must have hurt!
And yes, it is that saying "you don't know how lucky you are until you've lost it..." or however that would be in English (if I translated it right off it would be something with "You don't miss the cow until the stall is empty" but somehow I doubt that is the correct idiomatic expression :) )
Anyway, good luck with no infections and getting a correctly working tumb! (you are not alone with the plastic pcr tubes though... oh no... you wish...)
Posted by: challenge | October 26, 2006 09:04 AM
Heh, yes that's about right. "You don't know what you've got until it's gone", but I like the one about the cow.
Oddly enough, it wasn't painful at the time — now it's only when the Black Queen pokes it saying "Does this hurt?".
That's what passes for sympathy at Black Towers.
Posted by: BK | October 27, 2006 07:17 AM