Injuries!

Since Dianna can put up pictures of her injuries, I'm going to put up the ones i have of my most recent injury! :)

The other day, lets see.... it was tuesday night, at work i was getting some frozen sugar snap peas to cook in the cafe. there is a dining room and the cafe, the dining room is where i started working as a waitress, but then moved over to the cafe for more hours and a better pay so i could pay for school. anyway i was walking by this wall toward the cafe door.







right across from this wall is our ice machine, and when all the high schoolers come to work, they get these things called carafes and they go to the ice machine to fill them up, they are supposed to keep the area ice free and squeegie the floor when they are done so no one slips and falls. but they have taken to just putting up a wet floor sign up and leaving all the ice on the floor and whatnot. so one of the guys i work with, who isn't a high schooler, he is actually getting ready to leave in march for his mission, was rolling a cart with food to the ice machine to ice it all down when i thought 'hey! i could just put this heavy box of peas on the cart and have him roll it to the cafe!' but before i could do that he knocked down the wet floor sign, i stepped on it by accident and slid. i caught myself though and took another step, unfortunately onto the sign again and fell into the wall. What you see on the picture is some papers of announcements and rules and such. but the papers aren't just stapled onto the board, they are held in by some plastic things that aren't extremely thick, but just enough so that as i scraped my knuckles onto the wall 3 of them got cut. my pointer finger and my ring finger on my right hand got the worst cuts and the middle finger only got a little scrape.
it hurt like crazy! i threw the box onto the cart and looked at my hand. the cuts were pretty deep for cutting it on plastic. so i rushed to a sink and grabbed some paper towels and put pressure on my fingers like you are supposed to and asked one of the other chefs to get me some bandages and finger cots. the finger cots roll onto your finger to cover up the bandage so it won't fall into the food. and they are bright blue, not sure why, but maybe just to let everyone know you cut your fingers! :) it stung for the whole night while i was working. the poor guy who knocked over the sign felt so bad about it because i got into a really bad mood the rest of the night and he kept apologizing for it. I said it was okay, that it wasn't his fault. You know you got some good guys in the church because if it was any of the other guys i work with they wouldn't have apologized.
Anyway after the first rush in the cafe ended more of the chefs and managers wanted to know what happened so i just pointed to the wall and said the plastic holders cut me. we laughed at it because i'm always the one to find the most weird things to cut myself on, like the cash register. they said that what happened was a first, and i'm not sure if they are going to reconsider the signs but at least they are aware that people like me will find some way to cut themselves!

here is a picture of my hand after we closed the cafe and before i put on new and better bandages and a couple of close ups if you don't want to see don't scroll down! :)