Posted June 06, 2015
ZenWan: Hi Stilton - thank you.
Glad to meet you, I have greatly enjoyed reading your posts, now and earlier, when I have time to look through the thread.
This
http://www.gog.com/forum/general/conversational_freeforall_thread/post42655
is what i posted earlier, re the missing chunk.
To be honest, it's not a large chunk..
To be totally honest, it's a very small but deep bite, with a lot of fairly deep surrounding scratches, and now my hand has swollen up in a not-very -appealing way. At least it's not bleeding any more, that was not pleasant.
No doctor sround there parts on weekends, but I sprayed all the wounds liberally with disinfectant, then added some mercurochrome that I found in an old first aid box, which turned everything a lurid shade of red.
I threw on some tea-tree oil a while ago just for good measure. I hope that will kill every known germ and then some.
At least I know that the cat had her anti-rabies shots just recently. ;-)
Stilton: Sorry, late response - been away doing 'chores' (if I don't the shieldmaiden beats me). Glad to meet you, I have greatly enjoyed reading your posts, now and earlier, when I have time to look through the thread.
This
http://www.gog.com/forum/general/conversational_freeforall_thread/post42655
is what i posted earlier, re the missing chunk.
To be honest, it's not a large chunk..
To be totally honest, it's a very small but deep bite, with a lot of fairly deep surrounding scratches, and now my hand has swollen up in a not-very -appealing way. At least it's not bleeding any more, that was not pleasant.
No doctor sround there parts on weekends, but I sprayed all the wounds liberally with disinfectant, then added some mercurochrome that I found in an old first aid box, which turned everything a lurid shade of red.
I threw on some tea-tree oil a while ago just for good measure. I hope that will kill every known germ and then some.
At least I know that the cat had her anti-rabies shots just recently. ;-)
Although the natural impulse was to rescue your pet cat from injury, animals do have a way of surviving such encounters with very little harm. I recall by brother trying to stop our family dog from having a fight with another dog in the local park when we were kids, and he ended up like you with a bitten and bloody hand. Our dog, however, didn't have a mark on it. A yell or a kick might have been better, something to shock them out of what they're doing, but he went in hands first. Natural enough, when you consider out pet was being attacked! I'm not saying this is what you should have done, by the way ;-) - you did what you had to and unfortunately got injured. It sounds really painful :-( Typical that it happened at the weekend, too... I hope your cat is grateful ;-)
Better?