Blue Handed

[Niagara]

Today is supposed be the last day that I will visit with my client at the rehabilitation center. My client is suppose to be released to go home tomorrow and then I'll be joining her at her home as usual. This is plan and as long as she doesn't fall again between now and then all will go according to plan.

I got to go to the massive physical therapy gym with her again today. To get to the gym we have to take the elevator one level down.

I was the first one out of the elevator and I hand my hand in the thresh hold of the elevator doors so that the doors would stay open for everyone else trying to get out of the elevator. As I had my right hand in the way of the doors, I was holding my store bought plastic water bottle in my left hand.

My left hand accidentally set off the automatic hand sanitizer station and my plastic water bottle and my hands got all wet from the sanitizer. Of course the paper label on the plastic water bottle is blue so the ink of the label leaked onto both my hands.

I'm about to go soak a cotton ball with some rubbing alcohol to help remove the ink on my skin. I had to share this with the Lounge today because I thought it was hilarious!

Don't worry, I won't have blue hands forever.

[True Dough]

1. Well, that's not as bad as I started to imagine

Based on blue-handed and then your story mentioning sticking your hand in front of the elevator door, I immediately pictured the door malfunctioning and closing on your hand long enough to cause a loss of circulation, ergo the "blue" hand.

Glad that wasn't the culprit!

Your blues will wash away after a while, Niagara.

[Niagara]

3. No serious malfunctions today

Only comical malfunctions. I'm glad that elevator door wasn't the culprit either.

It's really funny because yesterday when I took my client for a walk, I was getting hand sanitizer off the automatic dispensers as often as I could. It smells really nice and I was pushing buttons and touching handles frequently.

The blue ink is slowly washing away and then I won't be so smurfy looking, True.

[True Dough]

7. Maybe

Aggie fades away as your nickname in favor of Smurfette!

[Niagara]

10. I like Aggie for the marbles reference

I have this weird thing about marbles.

[True Dough]

8. And don't you find

that hand sanitizer, no matter how nice it may smell (although usually it's not great), dries your hands out badly? I wind up with hangnails and peeling skin around my fingernails from using it only a few times.

[Niagara]

11. I'm at the age now that my nails are so weak

They peel, split, break, and bend back. So awhile ago I received my new vehicle sticker registration and it took me over an hour to remove the sticky from the label because I have no nail length left. I seriously thought I was going to have to use scotch tape to place it in my windshield.

My skin has been terrible and it feels "off". I don't know how else to describe it.

The bottom of my feet this past winter were so dry.

About 3 weeks ago, I purchased pure castor oil without hexane.

I put the castor oil on the bottom of my feet and hands alone without mixing it with any lotion or moisturizer. Yes, castor oil is thick sort of like honey.

I've been putting a few drops of castor oil in lotions and moisturizers for my face, neck, arms, and legs. My skin doesn't feel "off" anymore.

Every since I've been using it my nails seem to be actually growing. I don't want to jinx myself but it really does seems to be helping but it's only been 3 weeks.

I normally wouldn't use hand sanitizer because of how bad my nails have been for the last several years. But now it feels like I found a secret to my skin and nail problems.

Also, I'm weird about touching certain surfaces. I always keep washable gardening work gloves in my car to pump gas with. I was like this before Covid. I also keep full size alcohol wipes in my car too.

Sorry, didn't mean to talk your ear off!!

[some_of_us_are_sane]

2. I'm hearing a song.....

(It's similar to an old Doo Wop hit by the Marcels...............
Ba-bom-a-bom-bom
Ba-dang-a-dang-dang
Ba-ding-a-dong-ding ....."Blue hand,

I saw you changing yourself

Ignoring label's demand.... with ink that's bluer than Delft."

[Niagara]

4. I'll try to behave myself with the sanitizer dispensers, some_of_us_are_sane

[Sogo]

5. Sounds like a slap stick comedy routine.

One accident befalls another....

[Niagara]

6. I sort of felt like I was in an episode of a slap stick comedy

I couldn't do anything except for laugh about it since it was comical.

[JoseBalow]

9. Tell the truth

You dropped something into a porta potty, didn't you?

[Niagara]

12. hahaha

Maybe....