A greater pain than I have ever felt

This morning I experienced a pain like I have never felt before, something I could imagine being used as a form of torture.  Compared to everything else I have felt before I am going to say that as of right now I can only imagine child labor being able to beat this on a pain factor scale.  I'm not even sure how it happened because it was so fast and all day I have been wondering, really HOW did it happen?

Now that you can all see what my "mini" thumb looks like with the entire nail ripped off I am positive you are almost as grossed out as I am.  Having that nasty, bloody little thing attached is nasty - and not being able to use it because it still hurts is actually pretty difficult.  I have realized how vital my little thumb is to me and how much easier it makes my life - thank you, "Thumbelina."  =]

Anyway, on to a little on how it happened, since I can't really figure out HOW!!!  I was putting clean sheets and a new bed skirt on the bed this morning and somehow my nail caught onto a part of the wooden beam for the bed and WAA-LA!  I don't know where it caught or how on earth there was enough force to rip the ENTIRE nail away from my nail bed.  I always knew the nail lady I go to is awesome and that her glue she uses is good quality because it takes me hours to remove my acrylic nails when I choose to do that, but this showed an entire new level of strength.  The acrylic nail was about as good as new (with the addition of a whole lot of blood) and perfectly glued to it (fully attached) was my actual thumb nail.  CRAZY!!

I mean I know the pain of getting the tip of your nail caught and it breaking at the end, but the rest is still attached.  This was a more incredible pain that I could have ever imagined coming from something like acrylic nails, something more awful than I would wish upon anyone.  My finger was bleeding so much, it was burning hot, and it was pulsing so much it felt like it had its own heart.  I can't even describe the pain any other way than indescribable (now that was descriptive, wasn't it?!)    ; ) 

Through this I learned:  never make the bed (haha, kidding!), don't get acrylic nails (but, I still will..), and ALWAYS have band-aids on hand, lots of band-aids (guess it looks like I'm going to the store).  Apparently there were only 3 band-aids left in our box, and I had all 3 on at one time to hold in the blood and my finger still bled through all of them!!!  Yuck!

Good news is that it doesn't feel like it has a pulse anymore, but the bad news is .. not going to be healed anytime soon - but life goes on!  Thank God it isn't in as much pain anymore, I didn't break my actual thumb, and my thumb is still attached to my hand!!!

A Rough Start..

Well, here I am, writing my first blog post. I never thought I would actually be using it to write, it was only supposed to be to check my mama's blog easier. This could be a pretty cool thing, although I'm not sure who wants to read my random blabbering. I'm not quite sure what I should be writing on here so I guess I can start with today.

Our property has been nominated for Most Improved Property of the Year for 2009 for the APEX Awards. We have known for a couple of months but the actual awards ceremony is mid February. We had a set of questions we had to answer for the judges to read all about our property and how it has been improved over the year. Each property is also judged in person. Today I was the "lucky" one who got to give the tour to the judge and answer all the questions. Everyone knows I love to talk and sometimes just won't shut up, but this was a little nerve-racking because the way the entire property and staff was being judged was up to me and how well I did. Ahhhhh! It wasn't too bad, but we will have to wait a few more weeks before we know who the winner will be. It is coming up pretty quick, and I still need a dress......

Because I was the "lucky" one who had the pleasure of touring the APEX judge I was told I didn't have to come into work tomorrow morning until 10! Can you say SLEEP IN?!?! I'm so excited!

Well, I think this is probably enough for my first post, too much more would probably cause anyone reading to fall asleep! ;) Good night!