GLASS BITES

I'm about to show the bloody side of adventures in glass beadmaking, so if you're squeamish, maybe skip this one.

My evening field trip to the ER right before Christmas...

In my studio, frantically trying to make beads before I left for the holiday, a bit frazzled, I reached down to put something in the trash, and met with a rod of glass

{sporting a very sharp end}

casually standing up in a storage bin.

Not much blood, and oddly, no pain.

Eventually I broke through the shock long enough to call my sister to
rescue me.  Thankfully, she answered right away.

As I waited I had time to inspect the wound... a huge, crooked slash,
cutting through skin, fat, and juuuuust missing the tendons below.

hours waiting in emergency for someone to sew me up
and 6 stitches later... good as new.

well, almost.

beware, glass bites.

please be careful in your studios.

Comments

[Nonie]

Ouch...I can't believe it didn't hurt or bleed. I hope it heals quick.

[Coleen]

Ewww... nasty chickie. For how long it took to get stitched up, you could have called me and I could've been down faster to suture you up! ;P (don't worry, I would have used a local)
Glad it wasn't deeper!!

[Karen Rorek]

Nice battle wound!! I hope you're healing fast. I don't know what's worse: A cut or a bad burn. Let's not find out!!

Karen