I was left in stitches on Easter Monday, you might say.

The evening before, I was cutting up cabbage; and managed to give myself a nasty cut in the left thumb. The cut bled pretty heavily; and I had to put double bandaids on it. Every time I got my hands wet, the blood started oozing through the bandaids!

Next morning, it was the same. That cut still bled a lot when I took the wet dressings off; and I figured I needed skin glue, or something. I wasn\’t about to visit an emergency room; but there\’s an urgent care clinic not far from here.

I called them and told them about my predicament; and they said I could come in. Luckily things weren\’t so bad that I couldn\’t ride my bicycle over there. The outcome: they put two sutures in my thumb. I was left in stitches, literally!

Since then those stitches have made things awkward. I was supposed to keep the area clean and dry. Easy to say; but I simply can\’t keep that thumb from getting wet. I\’m my own chef; and my dishwasher is called a pair of hands. I\’ve been washing my cycling shorts as well as I can using one hand; but it\’s not easy.

I\’m glad those stitches come out tomorrow. I want to get back to normal!