I am still here. Partially.

I was in the VA Hospital just before New Years with exhaustion and dehydration. I survived. Yay!

And then yesterday morning I was in my studio. I have a number of painting commissions I am working on, and I was preparing to cut some canvas for a 16x54 painting of the stretch room. I normally use scissors to cut the canvas to size and then, after stretching it, I use a box cutter to trim the canvas.

As I prepared to cut the canvas, the box cutter was closer than the scissors, so I grabbed it.

I know. You can see this coming.

I sliced the canvas and in the process proceeded to cut the tip off of my left hand middle finger. Don't say it. I know. There is a joke here.

After cleaning the wound and having Suzanne tape it up with gauze, I went back to my Studio to stretch the canvas. Just as I was finishing, I noticed blood on the canvas. Oh,oh. And then more blood. Back to the bathroom to unwrap the injury. It was worse than I had thought. It wouldn't stop bleeding.

On to the VA Hospital and the ER.

"Weren't you just in here two weeks ago" asks the nurse.

"Uh huh" was my clever response.

Hours later and back home with a glued fingertip.

It wasn't over.

I got up this morning and I go into the bathroom to retrieve my partial dental plate (yes, I have one) which was in a container on my left. I reached in, trying not to get my finger wet, and promptly dropped the partial in the sink and it broke.

"Oh No."

Suzanne came in and I told her what happened. This was too much. We both stared at the broken partial and started laughing.

The good news is that the partial still works, sort of, but now I have to go to the Dentist.

Suzanne, my family and friends are threatening to put me in a rubber room for my own protection. Very funny.

I am now back in my Studio painting....and trying not to stick a brush in my eye.

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