OUCH!!!

I was pretty excited about my new pampered chef pineapple cutter.  The day I got it happened to be a Friday and a swim meet.  What better time to cut some fresh pineapple.  It was about an hour before we needed to leave for the swim meet at EAC.  Now this pineapple cutter is much like the apple cutter I have from pampered chef.  With my apple cutter when I can't get the cutter to cut all the way through I flip it over and push the apple slices through.

Well just for your information when the pineapple slicer says it's supper sharp and NOT to press from the blade end of it THEY MEAN IT!!!!

Actually what threw me off was that I wasn't familiar with where the blades were so I just pushed with both my thumbs.  That would prove to be a HUGE mistake!  Sliced my thumb pretty deep.

So here I am thumb sliced open and needing to finish getting everything ready to leave for a swim meet in about 45 minutes.  My kids got scared when they saw all the blood.  I couldn't get my mom to answer her phone.  So Kiersten insisted on running over to our friends house, Tressie.  She got Tressie and by that time I had called Justin to explain that I need to go get stitches but need someone to finish getting the swim meet snacks and bag packed.  Plus get the kids to the swim meet early so they can warm up, and so we can get a place to sit.

He of course said he would be right home.  I wanted to just drive myself to the doctor but Tressie was so sweet and offered to take me.  She even came back with me while I got the stitches.  Dr.  Smith was the doctor that stitched it up.  He said I came very close to cutting my tendon!!  If I had cut my tendon he said I would be on my way to Tucson to have a specialist stitch it up……….oh wow was I grateful that didn't happen! He ended up not only numbing it but actually doing a completely nerve blocker, which made my thumb enlarge about 3 times its normal size.  It was crazy!  I wish I would have taken pictures of that.  Those 4 shots were the worse part of the whole ordeal!
So after all that drama, I made it to the swim meet.  By this time Justin had called my mom to meet him at the swim meet so he could go back to work.  Heaven forbid he actually get off at 4:00!  So my mom came to the rescue for us!  
What crazy timing I tell you!  I am so thankful for great friends and family!  I ended up having to keep the stitches in for 10 days because of where the cut was and how deep it was.  I guess 5 days is the typical amount of time for stitches to stay in.
So learn from my experience………..when Pampered Chef says their product is sharp THEY MEAN IT!!!