Ewwwwww....

So, last week I was out weeding and hadn't bothered wearing gloves (I often don't, because it can be much easier to pull some weeds barehanded). The next morning, I realized I had apparently gotten a small thorn in the back of the knuckle of my left thumb. I could see a small black speck and there was some major inflammation around it. We tried getting it out with tweezers, but it seemed like it was too small to get a grip on. I put some Neosporin on it and figured I'd let it sit overnight and see if I could get it out in the morning. By then, the inflammation was down and it really did look like just a small speck, fairly buried under the skin. It didn't seem to be bothering me anymore, so I thought I'd just let my body push that sucker out over time.

( Talk of icky stuff under the cut. )

Crossposted from my Livejournal.