Two quick things

[kaberett]

1. A remarkably efficient trick to stop me neg-stimming over People Who are Wrong on the Internet, particularly on Facebook: message whoever the host is, and ask if it's okay to continue to respond or if they'd rather I dropped it, making very clear that my default course of action is to drop it. (Their space, their rules, their capacity to moderate, etc.) At the point at which they say "actually I'd rather that thread stopped there" I feel basically completely fine about not continuing.

2. Minor hand injury, everything is fine, I'm just amused. So I messaged A:

Okay I'm going to preface this by saying I'm pretty sure I just need pressure and a plaster, not a&e

But I just fucked up during dinner prep and took a slice off my thumb

And it hurts and I am dealing with adrenaline and I would appreciate sympathetic noises and internet cuddles

(Had completed wound cleaning and started application of pressure before starting to type at you)

[5 minutes elapse]

(Bleeding seems to have stopped)

... at which point A gave me sympathy and scritches, and I dithered at him about whether to soak the kitchen roll off and dress things properly or tape it down. A checked whether advice was welcome/sought, and then, er, this happened:

A: (if you reckon it's worth doing the skin graft, take off the kitchen roll and attempt the graft now)
me: (Got skin into place before applying pressure)
A: (Well done <3)
me: (What kind of amateur etc etc etc :-p)
me: (This is how I ruin your first aid training)
A: (in which case, just tape it up; you've incredibly little to gain from getting the paper off at this point)
A: (:-P)

(The actual reason I froze up is that it's not possible to non-destructively remove my ring splint without getting the current dressing off, even now I've trimmed the kitchen roll down a lot, but if I leave the splint on overnight that's going to start threatening skin integrity. So I froze up, but I froze up at the point at which Not Doing Anything Further made absolutely no medical difference whatsoever, it just delayed dinner. So: go me.)

3. Oh also: I got an e-mail from the Irish government today! ... I submitted the wrong form of my birth certificate and need to submit a different form within 21 days. I have made this my mother's problem. And they didn't specify any other issues with my application, so...? Maybe Irish citizenship soon.

Comments

[alexseanchai]

\o/

[alatefeline]

>> So I froze up, but I froze up at the point at which Not Doing Anything Further made absolutely no medical difference whatsoever, it just delayed dinner. So: go me. <<

Good work!

[redsixwing]

Go, you!

Also, fingers crossed for citizenship.

[recessional]

Haha. I did that to my thumb (I totally deserved it too I was being That Idiot and trying to use it to cut something I shouldn't've, I knew AS THE BLADE HIT and thought "oh my fucking god I deserve this") and I was sitting there with the towel on it going "please stop bleeding I do NOT WANT TO HAVE TO GO to the ER and tell them what I just did."

XD

But yes, go you!

[kaberett]

there was an absolutely glorious moment about a year ago now where I had to, uh, show up at A&E? and present myself for admission? and the person at the desk said "okay what did you do to yourself" and I said "....... I........ poured boiling water over my hand", extremely sheepishly, and got back "... well that was clever, wasn't it" along with an actually-sympathetic grin, and then we Sorted Me Out. But. YES. GOODNESS YES. >_>

[recessional]

Uhhuh. Like I even know that if I show up WITH THE SHEEPISH, the worst that will happen is that kind of commiserating-“everyone does stupid shit sometime” thing! I know emergency staff! I just . . . DON’T WANT TO. >.> Okay? I do not want to have to admit so them I just did this. XD XD

[kaberett]

(A just got home from his Evening Revelries and very patiently and lovingly, with due fuss and no more, redressed the thing for me while I sat pouting on the side of the bath. More Bucky-patching-up-Mercedes Why Is My Life What Are My Choices than Steve-patching-up-Bucky for OBVIOUS REASONS.)

[azurelunatic]

"And what kind of injury is this?"
"A *stupid* one."
(rueful, understanding laughter) "Did it happen at work, at home...?"

[milkymoon]

...'neg-stimming' is a wonderful phrase for a horrible habit that I think I share with you. I've had hate-perseverations/stims for years and I loathe them.

Also, good luck with the Irish citizenship application!

[kaberett]

I'm pretty sure I got it from recessional! Isn't it good, though -- I find it so useful to have a term I can positively identify the behaviour with.

Thank you! Citizenship should be straightforward -- my grandfather's Irish -- it's just a case of getting all the paperwork in the right place. However they seem to be very graciously not charging me another EUR300 fee, my mother's found the correct form of my birth certificate, I'll be picking it up this weekend and posting it on Monday. SO. (The thing I am looking forward to most is honestly my Irish passport? I can choose which names are shown in it. I can have a passport that identifies me only as Alex and not as my given names, and use it as ID for everywhere that insists on using my Actual First Name, without having to get rid of names I'm actually attached to! I'm excited.)

[davidgillon]

Oh, wow, hadn't thought of that aspect of new citizenshp!

Shiny!

[birke]

Yay for Irish citizenship! An tAontas Eorpach go Brách!

[kaberett]

Thank you! Gaelic is next on my list of languages to learn, once I've completed the Duolingo Turkish tree...

[cjwatson]

I'd be happy to have another person to exchange occasional amateurish bits of Irish with. (I'm nearing the end of the Duolingo tree and am considering where to go next with it; my dad's partner is AFAIK fluent and I follow a few random interesting-looking Irish speakers on Twitter, but it'll take a bit more than that to hoik my ability up beyond not-entirely-clueless-beginner.)

[silveradept]

Well done in coping, all around.

[kaberett]

<3

Skin graft appears to have taken!

[davidgillon]

Blood sausage is not meant to include you in the ingredents ;)