Tweezing a Thorn
I noticed this morning that there was the tiny tip of a thorn still there in my middle finger a little below the first joint. Late afternoon yesterday I had grabbed a thorny vine by mistake, but I washed the scratches and went on to other things. This morning that one spot still hurt, and with no blood obscuring the view there was obviously a little dark speck bedded deep. With tweezers I pulled away skin until the speck was exposed and the tweezers could grasp it and pluck it out. It is a marvel how immediate the change is when foreign debris is no longer touching a place it shouldn’t. Plying the tweezers to reach the thorn tip hurt more while I was doing that than the thorn itself had. Due to experience with such things, though, the immediate pain did not deter me from pursuing the relief I was confident I would gain.
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G.
October 1, 2021
Who has ears to hear, let him hear.
E.C.
October 2, 2021
Well, yes. I, too had a thorn – a raspberry thorn – stuck in a finger joint this week. The darned thing festered before I’d noticed it and came out only after it had created a pretty good blister that popped at the exit point. I’d rather have tweezered it out.
Indeed, who has ears to hear, let him hear.