smiley cut my thumb really badly. he wanted to snip the yarn that i was using since i'd come to the end of a small piece i was crocheting. he's been doing it for me on occasion for weeks now & has usually been pretty careful & followed my instructions. this time, though, when i handed him my little crochet scissors, he opened them wide with both hands & just after i warned him, 'carefully!' he lunged forward with them & snipped them shut .. right through the tip of my thumb! it bloody hurt! for a minute or so, i was thinking i might even need to get a stitch in it because it was quite deep. i didn't bother (since they probably would have made me wait days until i could have an appointment anyway) but it probably would have warranted at least one stitch. i sufficed with one bandaid over the top & another one around the first one to help hold it in place. part blessing, part curse, these scissors are actually real surgical scissors & so they're really, really, really sharp. if they'd been more blunt, i suppose they might not have cut as deeply, but then it would have been a really messy cut & hurt even more than it already did. i was so angry with him. an accident is one thing, but that was blatant disregard & just being silly, stabbing forward like that with them. that was yesterday (saturday the 23rd of feb), so i gave him another chance to show me that he can be careful by allowing him to cut the yarn again for me today .. i was a tad nervous. lol! he proved that he could be careful, though, so i'm happier about that now. today i have the bandaid off to let it air a bit. i guess i'll put another bandaid on later to help hold the two sides of the cut together & help it heal a little better. at least it was on the tip, rather than right across the pad of my thumb. i can still use my thumb—gingerly—but if it was across the pad, i'd have a lot of trouble using my thumb normally. i wonder if it'll scar? if it does, then i can use it to make smiley feel guilty in the future. lol!! i'm joking, i'm joking! mostly. ;-) :-D

little man got stitches in his ear at the doggy ER last night. my fault entirely. which sucks, but there it is. i was trying to cut a knot of hair off, near his ear. too near. :( it wasn't all gruesome, just thought well, i can't tell what happened under all that hair, better to go to the vet and find out it's nothing than the other way around. i know better. i knew better. don't do this at home. when trying to get tangled messes out do not cut across. if you must cut, put the end of the scissors in the matt of hair, and cut gently pulling away from the skin. do not use the action of the scissors to cut unless you are far far away from flesh. better yet, use a mat cutter, not scissors (little curved comb things that look like a rake and can only cut through hair. he's doing fine though. he barely flinched when i did it, and it never seemed to bother him. even after they put surgical staples on the ear. he's a tough little sweet boy.