Dibs on your DS!

Never a Druid around when you need one =/

I'm sitting here wondering how the hell you would develop these symptoms by cutting yourself on what seems like a piece of sharp metal

I've cut myself on computer equipment many a time previously. Never picked up anything that causes numbness though, and especially not numbness that is transferable.

I'm thinking a conversation with a 'trained medical professional' might be in order here.

I hope you are alright!

In a similar vein, I used to do field work for the local cable company. Part of the job was climbing telephone poles with gaffs (the long metal spikes strapped to the inside/instep of the boot). I climbed this one pole in this no-man's land between two back yards, an area that was thick with Russian Olive trees (if you've never seen one, they are beautiful, but have these amazingly long, hard, sharp thorns all over them).

At the top of the pole I was, mostly, above the tree tops, but my feet, and the rest of the pole, were completely concealed by the trees as I looked down to start my descent. My first step down was good, the second step dropped my left gaff right into a fissure on the pole, where it completely failed to find purchase of any kind, and the next thing I knew, I was standing on the ground at the base of the pole with a burning, tingling sensation all up and down my right side and arm.

Upon inspection, I found hundreds of splinters, ranging in size from microscopic, up to around 6-8 inches (15-20 cm). So I called my boss to tell him what happened and what my condition was, and his first words were, "So you can finish that job?"

I learned two things that day (aside from the obvious, don't put your feet anywhere you can't see).

First, I learned that I will never again be such a spineless sucker (so help me, I told him yes, and finished the job before taking care of my injuries).

Second, Creosote (the sick, black preservative they soak telephone poles and railroad ties in to keep them from rotting) burns like nothing else I have ever felt in all my asinine misadventures before or since.

Suffice to say, I feel your pain, on several levels.

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uh... wow, honestly that sounds, to me, like grounds for suing them, but I may be wrong

only if there's complications.

wasn't on the compies 'emsselfves but on the cabinet that i got the cut from. i'm suspecting it was lingering residue of some sort of cleaner. and yeah, if the twitchiness doesn't go back down to my normal level of nerves, i'm totally telling them to get fucked tomorrow.

aaand yeah, that was seriously spineless. so was my finishing the computers, but what looks like two tiny cuts even if it doesn't feel it doesn't co mpare to porcupine-arm...

sorry, i'm being somewhat senseless, many thankyous for the empathy *hugs*

by there being some manner of chemical contiminant ON said piece of sharpness, thus introduced into bloodsteam both by finger itself and oral membranes when i sucked on it.

totally. where were you?