'Tis but a Flesh Wound

Okay, so I had a minor little hand surgery last week... If you don't like mildly gross pictures, this post is not for you.

I apparently had some form of a cyst or something that formed on the tendon of my middle finger - in the palm of my hand. They originally thought it was "Trigger Finger," but alas after surgery, they think it might have just been a weird cystic knot. Who knows?

I thought it would go away, but it didn't and the entire tendon was sore to touch, it was hard to open my hand all the way, or put my hand down flat on anything. Yea for being currently insured!

See the weird knot under my middle finger? Never mind the pen marks on my hand I seem to come home from work with everyday?.?.?

They sent me home looking like a mummy. Of course I'm right handed...and swollen.


My pretty little stitches...very itchy by the way.


Got the stitches out today and steri-strips instead. -And brought home more pen marks :)


The strips didn't last long...the healing mark after one week.

What is this World Coming To?

Okay, so it's not often I hear a news story and it's still on my mind days later unless it's:

1. Overly played/analyzed.
2. Something local.
3. Related to something I've been following socially/politically.
4. Or just completely shocking/outrageous.

Well, this is a #4. It is just so peculiar and horrifying - and I never saw it on the news, although we have Fox News running 24/7 in my office. I did hear about it through a friend who saw it on the news though.

You can read the full story here and here.


Here's the gist though: (You'll never think of public transportation the same)

A greyhound bus driving overnight through the plains of Canada - A 40 year-old man gets on the bus and rides for about an hour quietly. Then he just decides to get up and calmly (some reported "robotic like") stab a 22 year-old guy, who is sleeping with headphones on, about 50-60 times with a hunting knife and kills him - and doesn't seem to know the guy at all. It's gets worse...

He throws the body on the floor and decapitates him, holding the head up for all the other passengers to see as they are fleeing off the bus! Then meticulously disassembles and disembowels him as well - one passenger reported he's certain he saw the guy eat some of him!?!??!

The bus driver and a trucker who stopped with all the frantic people fleeing the bus, held the door closed, containing the crazy on the bus, as he tried to get off with the knife. He has been arrested, not without trying to flee - and has not been interviewed as of yet... Currently, it appears this was a completely random attack.

All I have to say: "What is this world coming to?"