Have no fear! I'm still alive. Even sewing a bit more. But I have a story to tell.....
In early September I started working on my Halloween Bear Paw, which I totally stole the idea from Gwen Taylor (or elletaylor7 on IG)
I was so excited and making lots of progress....
Then one Sunday morning we skipped church, and I totally cut my finger tip off on accident. I am not superstitious, however if we'd gone to church it wouldn't have happened. At least not at that time on that day.
....just cut a big ol chuck of finger and nail right off. My rotary cutter just slipped.
It was an ER visit type of cut. I couldn't get it to stop bleeding.
Luckily my PA was a surgical background type of gal and used some clotting mesh to make a scab.
It wasn't fun. Thankfully she also did a nerve block to my whole finger and I couldn't feel a thing until late the following day. Even then it was more a throbbing thing, or like that uncomfortable feeling when your fingernail gets ripped off your nail-bed.
But it took a good week to heal up.
And part of another week to not be open flesh anymore.
It has grown back and new skin has it looking nearly normal now.
I have a tingly feeling in parts of it, and it doesn't like getting bumped.
But I survived.
Unfortunately the injury really stopped my sewjo for my Halloween project, and my progress was greatly slowed. I did however get the top sewn just after Halloween. I have put it away to finish next fall. No cutting is necessary.
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