Anyway, I digresss...after shifting the flowers from the trunk of my car to my potted garden area out back I sought out my gardening gloves that I absolutely adore. They are really thin and stay very close to the skin, and are not easter egg colored. I keep them stashed outside in an empty clay pot. After finding them in the the clay pot I skipped with my dogs to where the new flowers were hanging out. Okay, skipping was a slight exaggeration but you get my point. I was excited!
Gloves on I started to pull out some old plants that hadn't made it and began digging a hole for the newbies when suddenly a sharp pinching pain resonated through my pinkie finger on my right hand and then again. As fast as I could I yanked the right glove off and violently shoke my pinky finger (well my whole hand) trying to shake whatever it was off of me. I looked down at my hand and there was nothing attached but holy crap the pain was excruciating. I found that violently shaking my whole arm helped make the pain go away. Thankfully my neigbors weren't peeking over the wall at that exact moment otherwise they may mistaken it for a really bad Michael Jackson dance.
Five minutes later still writhing in pain I stuck my hand in cold water and if you are wondering yes, I removed the other glove for fear of whatever was lurching in the right glove may also have had it's ugly step-sister in the left glove.
I am now scared to go back in the garden. I tried to peek inside the guilty glove but I couldn't see anything and given the indescribable pain I wasn't feeling gung-ho about peeking too much further in to the glove. Those gloves are now dead to me. I am going to have to get rid of them because they are obviously harboring some type of insect/animal with pinchers. I'm not sure what it was but I honestly wouldn't be surprized if it was a scorpion. It felt like a real nasty pinch and my pinky has a small gash (incredibly small - a millimeter if that). And don't forget we do live in the desert. Queue wild west music...
My pinkie is now somewhat enlarged, numb but still sore. Not sure how those last two go together but that's how it feels. I'm hoping that whatever bit me didn't lay it's eggs and that five days from now, little baby insects won't come crawling out of the gash. Hey I'm just saying - it could happen. I also had this awful vision in to the future that this was the moment that led up to the amputation of my right arm. Man that would suck.
awkward silence
Ok so I do have a tendency to exaggerate at times but hey....it could happen. Needless to say I am now bummed that I cannot garden this afternoon. I could go back to the nursery but I was just there and am too lazy to go back. I'll stop by there tomorrow to get a new pair and will resume my gardening. And I will ask Rich to throw away those gloves tonight. There's no way in hell I'm touching them again!!
Anyway to end here is what I learnt today:
1. Keep gloves in a very heavily sealed box in the garage
2. If that is not possible, keep heavily sealed box in the garden
3. If that is not possible, keep gloves turned inside out
4. If that is not possible, do not put the gloves on...go to the nursery and purchase new gloves. Return to Step 1.
Come to Mama!!
3 comments:
aghghghaghghaghaghaghghag that is so scary! we keep our shoes outside and we always shake them out for fear of a spider nesting inside it. a few times, a nice-sized spider has fallen out. eeeeeeekkkkkkkk! i hope you're ok!
I am awful for doing the same thing with my gloves. It might have been a spider in which case it might have been worth calling poison control. They know all about that kind of stuff. (And all about how to unstick super-glued fingers, but that is for another time!)
Aartilla - SO gross. Gives me the shakes just thinking about it. and pps - you never told me to shake my shoes when I've visited!!
Mo - Well actually I was close to calling you but I decided to wait to see if my finger was going to fall off. :)
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