disturbing

OK, another week passes: work, life, waterpolo, Kyle's grades, the Veep debate, UCLA football/waterpolo, headaches, work... time passes.

Beyond the pretty fascinating Veep debate (Palin held her own... without answering squat, though Joe Six-Pack probably found that endearing; Biden reeled in his own propensity for off-the-wall tangents... most saw it as a tie, but with the polls the way they were, tie goes to the leader Obama), there's not much to discuss (though Bruce IS now set to perform the Super Bowl's halftime show), except for this disturbing issue:

Two and a half weeks ago, I jammed a pencil into my hand at a water polo game (note to self and anyone else who's listening: take the pencil out of your hand BEFORE you applaud a great play). Did the urgent care thing the next day, got antibiotics. Within a day of the meds running out, the wound got red and inflamed and a little white along the edges. Another urgent care visit: more meds, a culture to make sure it was that nasty staph infection, and instructions to soak my hand in hot water multiple times a day, to bring the meds to the infection and the lead, if it was still there, to the surface. By last Saturday, it was getting dark and swollen, making me believe that it was coming to the surface. Yesterday morning, it looked like a scab. Yesterday afternoon, the tip of the graphite broke the surface... I joked to Kyle that I could probably write with it. After dinner, I soaked, removed my hand, ran my finger in a circle around the lead, soaked and repeated for 15 minutes. I could see it growing...

After about 6 reps, I did the circular rub again... and it slid all the way out:


Now THAT's disturbing.