I cut a knuckle last night. Not a really bad cut. Just one of those annoying types that bleeds a bit. One of those situations where you are not so concerned for the cut as you are about getting blood on other things around you.
So I went looking for a bandage of some type. Just to keep things from getting messy.
Adhesive bandages (I’m trying to avoid the brand name we all usually use) are one of those things like light bulbs and batteries around my house. You never think about them until you need them, and by then it’s too late.
I did find some. There was one of those strips about eight feet long that you can cut little strips off of. I’ve never really been sure what to do with those. I’m sure they would be handy for a serious wound, but that’s not what I was dealing with. I also found a bunch of small ones. So technically, we weren’t out of them. There was just nothing that was going to work in this situation.
Like I mentioned, it was a knuckle. I had been rinsing a can.
Which raises another question. Why have we not come up with a solution to sharp can edges over the last century or two? You can say we have come up with the easy open can that we no longer need to use a can opened for. The ones you just rip the lid off of. But those are no less sharp. The can, once opened, is just waiting to injure us.
And there are just too many parts of our bodies that cannot be properly covered with small bandages. Like a knuckle. I might have been able to criss cross the area with two or three small ones, but there was just nothing around at that moment that could cover the area that needed to be covered and still remain stuck. I had the great big huge one, and the little tiny ones. Nothing in between. So it was a tissue and a piece of duct tape to keep things from leaking until it stopped on it’s own.
But it does remind me. I need to put bandages on my shopping list. Just something to plug the occasional leak. I should probably add light bulbs too. Before I end up sitting around in the dark.
