Thumb Abuse

I was working on a project at home today using corrugated plastic sheets that I was cutting with an X-ACTO knife. I ended up cutting across my index finger and thumb. I wasn't actually cutting anything when I did this, I knocked a bottle off the table and reflexively tried to catch it with the knife in my hand.

It was a clean cut and really didn't hurt that bad, but I knew it was deep and needed stitches so I went to a redi-care and that's where it got painful. The Doctor on site deadened my thumb around the base with multiple injections that were actually quite painful. In the end all it did was make my thumb drastically swell while providing no numbing effect to the area that needed stitched.