Playing With Pain
Life lessons from the Journal of Wisdom According to Awesome:
Form your hand into a straight, rigid flipper as though you were about to power chop your way through a cinder block or a 2×4 plank.
Now take careful aim at your cat. Any other nearby life form will do as a substitute.
Lunge at said cat/lifeform and feint an mega death blow attack by thrusting the tips of your flipper fingers in the direction on the target with all undue velocity available to your particular combination of body mass and muscular build.
Realize that due to an oversight in your scouting report on the local terrain (perhaps, say, your bedroom) you have now speared your hand into the door frame.
QED: Pain.
Aleve takes the edge off, so good times for only being in uncomfortable pain. I’m told it’s most likely a muscular/tendon injury, so it’ll be about a month before it’s completely better, and there’s no point to x-rays because if it were a small fracture, there’s nothing that could be done for it.
