For the record, I'm stubborn and a stoic and I take care of others who I love far better than I take care of myself -- but I'm not a complete masochist and I'm not an idiot. Just because I didn't go in for x rays on it even though I genuinely suspect I've chipped the knuckle doesn't mean I failed to ask a coworker who is a ski patrol EMT look it over make sure she agreed with my self diagnosis didn't think I should go immediately get an x ray or medical intervention and it doesn't mean I failed to stop by Walgreen's for a $7 splint to help keep me from displacing any fractured chips as it heals. And it will help protect it from other injuries from like smacking my hand against walls or desks or whatever. 

So yeah. I'm a stoic but not a masochist and I'm stubborn but not a complete idiot when I know what I ought to do to take minimal care of myself.

Yes, it's sill very swollen. But I can move it (though it's too swollen to close that knuckle all the way into a fist right now) and there's no obvious pain or grinding or popping or visibly/tactilely displaced fragments. Just swelling and the pain associated with that. (But I always swell up immediately following any fracture and it lasts for 3-5 days until the bone fuses enough that it doesn't need to be swollen to hold i tin place. I've been told this is actually a lucky and good natural response. Knowing that is why I removed the ring IMMEDIATELY after I smacked it against the freezer door.)  It feels really strange to wear my garnet and citrine ring on my left middle finger instead of left middle finger.It's nothing like what I want (I've known since I was 9 that I want an eternity band of channel set matched emeralds, something like princess cut, square shaped. Precogs be like that, lol.) My garnet and citrine ring from my mom is a little big for my ring finger but I don't always like the look/feel of it stacked with the dolphin from my grandma.  But it's definitely more than a little too small for my middle finger, lol.

And I'm in significantly less pain today. I mean, it's still there when I take the splint off, just as it's still swollen, but the sparkle is back in my eyes and my smile, not the faking it behind the pain of yesterday.

Also, not gonna lie. My favorite thing about this injury and wearing the splint to keep me from injuring me worse by accident is that it gives me and excuse for "accidentally" giving the finger.

I mean. Am I easily entertained? Yes. But also. How could I not be when I get to flick the world off whenever I damn well please because splint.

But also though, as Cancer season wanes and Chiron was headed to retrograde (Chiron is an asteroid that in mythology/astrology is the wounded healer and represents your soul/life path's source of deepest hurts andunexpected healing; it's an important ephemera to know in your birth chart. My Chiron is in Gemini, third house, and it's 10 degrees from my north node (soul purpose in this life) which is also in my third house but is in Taurus) almost every single deeply spiritual lightworker I know is incredibly sick or sudden injuries over the last week and especially the last 24 hours as the retrograde started. Very unexpectedly. Some of them I know they and/or their kids are inexplicably in hospital. So as far as possible sudden injuries/sickness, I'll take a stupid mistake of chipping a knuckle/jamming a finger and a simple $7 splint and ice packs and time can fix it. Better than some of the people I know having a miserably rough go of today..... Including several in hospital (including family not just friends, my Uncle Jomi in Germany being diagnosed with a large pancreatic cancer mass being in hospital since Friday)  or trying to track down something as elusive as me trying to figure out why my dog's platelet counts were so low last week.... (I am seriously hoping for doxy helping because that will mean tick borne disease. Not auto immune or inoperable cancers that last will be about decisions of palliative care quality of life until she passes. So we're hoping the doxy is working and shows that she's improving and it was a tick borne disease even though her titres came back a negative test.)

I still took my grandma to her appointment today and then spent from 5 until sunset watering everything and moving the sprinkler around as needed. Tomorrow is Hamlet tickets -- hopefully Crissy will feel up for going -- both she and my da woke up feeling ill today. Crissy is vague tired malaise (she did have a coworker test positive on Friday, but she's always masked in the office) but my da is chills and body aches and headaches -- and he did have a tick bite about 5 weeks ago. It could be covid, but both have tested negative for it today, and after all I live in one of the worst areas for Lyme and other tick borne diseases. So can't rule that out, though should continue testing for covid just in case given ba5 is everywhere.   Thursday my parents plan to head out to Washington to rescue Waffles and visit my sister's family out there. Unless my da isn't feeling well enough for it. I also have my own dentist appointment at 2:30 on Thursday (I always schedule my dentist appointments for 2:30, because it's the best time to go to the dentist, tooth-hurty) and then my dog gets her blood draw at 4pm on Thurs to see if her platelet numbers have improved being on doxy. And then I'll have both dogs and two homes from Thursday until next Weds, but nothing else in the calendar.

Kinda tired though. Not gonna lie. I stayed at work til sunrise and then napped but didn't sleep enough this morning because of needing to take grandma to her appointment.  I should head home. Before it gets too late. Audrey's meds are currently around the 12s/12:30s. (her prescriptions are she takes them every 12 hours, not more frequent than that, and sometimes I forget or oversleep or on Saturday it was migraine.)