Once in high school we were riding in the car and passing a sheet of paper from the back seat to the front seat and a friend of mine got a paper cut on his eyeball.

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good LORD.

I think my original post has just been invalidated.

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Nowhere near as bad, but the philtrum is also an unpleasant place to get one. (Don't ask how, really.)

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Did it involve an artificial mustache?

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I'd imagine that it probably hurts a LOT worse to begin with, but since you don't flex your eyeball much it probably doesn't hurt for as long.

I had Radial Keratonomy (warning, Wikipedia entry involves gruesome injuries) done on one eye when I was in college and on my parent's health plan (which, for some reason, covered it)--I don't remember anything being particularly painful after the anesthesia wore off. I imagine it would have hurt like a mother during the surgery without whatever they use to deaden it, however. And the Valium.

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Aieee! A new thing to constantly worry about.

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This is my nightmare.

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I did that the other day! ack. 'cept I kind of tore at the skin with the edge of one of those name-letter stickers that gets folded over the end of the patient's chart/file/thingie. The corners on the folded stickers are really sharp and as I pushed a file into the filing shelves, it tore through the skin right between my thumb and index finger. Bad enough that I get paper cuts from all the paper I handle (letters, patient info, photocopying), but the damn stickers... argh.

At least as a Dermatologist's office, we have lots of band-aids around! and Bacitracin.

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Quickest way to count up just how many papercuts you receive in the course of duty: go to the kitchen, make some tea and squeeze half a lemon in.

You will find them ALL.

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oh my christ, your icon.

O_O

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Ah yes.

I found that sweet potato while making Thanksgiving preparations, but it was tansu that gave it its name.

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Actually, I also dispute the location thing. I have one under my thumbnail right now and it hurts way worse than the time that I sliced open the spot between my thumb and index finger (still have the scar from that one, though.)

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I don't see you guys rating the kind of mate I'm contemplating.
I'd let you watch, I would invite you
But the queens we use would not excite you

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So you better go back to your bars, your temples...
your massage parlors...

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I was gonna say,

Not much is known
Of how this superficial injury could cause so much distress
Unless one looks to useful models: sensory homonculus's giant hands.

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