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[commotiocordis]

Oh and another story that I forgot.

I've got a paint chip under my fingernail.

I was pushing open this gate with letters on it during lunch on Tuesday, and somehow a big chunk of one of the letters got all the way under my pinky nail. I thought I just had banged it pretty hard and that maybe it was bleeding under the nail until I realized that there was something under there.

I managed to finally get a hold of a pair of tweezers about an hour and a half later and after 10 minutes of wrangling, thought I had it out. Nope. Evidently, there were two flakes right on top of each other. So I have one, but the other's still stuck in there, and because the only way I got the first one out was because it was sticking out a little, idk if I can even get the second.

It stopped hurting as much after I got the first piece out, though, I suppose because it wasn't pressing as hard anymore. It doesn't hurt at all anymore, but it was pretty bad even after extraction #1 if I touched anything with it.

So yes. I'm rather afraid that it's lead paint or I'm going to get infected or something, but idk how to get it out.

Edit: Some 30 hours after the original incident, I've finally managed to get them both out. It involved tearing my fingernail up a lot higher than I would have wished, and it's quite bloody/bruised under there, but at least it's gone.

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[(Anonymous)]

For future reference, next time try soaking it in warm water for a half hour or so. That might have swelled it out or slowly extracted it.

And by the by... OUCH.