Hello everyone! Yesterday was a very exciting day for me, I have a lovely head cold and was trying to do the dishes. I let out a massive sneeze and shattered a glass cup in the sink, giving myself a nasty 2 inch and fairly deep laceration on my finger. Luckily my sister's significant other is an ER doc, and came over to sew me up. (no lidocaine, by the way. Yeah I know, pretty much made me feel like a bada**). Anyway, I ended up calling into work today because I was paranoid about infection and the like, and I was afraid that all of the heavy lifting could potentially tear the sutures. (I only had 3). Well jeff said it would be fine to go to work, and my supervisor stated that "you wear gloves at work, so I don't see the big deal". I work in an assisted living home where hand washing areas are pitiful, and the amount of bodily fluids I deal with on a day to day basis is of epic proportions. So has anyone gone to work with finger sutures? Called off because of it? I'm just feeling really guilty about calling off, and wondering if I did the right thing. Thanks so much everyone, love you all!
