02.12.07

My Hands - Part 2

Posted in The Story at 4:21 pm by Chef Matt

Back when I started this blog, I wrote a post about the starting condition of my hands. A “ground zero” position to begin at, so we could all track the progress of the damage I was doing to my hands over time.

Since then, I have shared with you the time when I burned my wrist badly as well as sliced into my thumb and thumbnail with incredible precision.

But I have yet to give an overall photo of my hands for the sake of comparison. I figured today was as good a day as any since I have a few injuries to show off, but it is a pretty “normal state” for how my hands look these days.

Let’s all take a look shall we?

Right Hand

Left Hand

From these photos we can take away a few lessons.

1. The standing injuries to my hands are not as bad as I expected them to be. But all the same, injuries to hands are a constant occurrence.
2. Knife tips are sharp.
3. My hand modeling career is now over. (Before it even had a chance to get started…)


SO much more than just a friendly warning!

4. When you see the “corrosive” warning symbol on a barrel of dishwasher detergent, wear gloves when handling it.

And one last item I want to talk about - that my wife pointed out to me as I made these photos - when I say that the wedding ring was “getting in the way”, I do NOT mean, “getting in the way of my being a player with all the waitresses I work with”. I have about as much game with the ladies as Joseph Merrick. My ring “gets in the way” of reaching into cases of vegetables, the constant washing of my hands and other “kitchenly” duties. So I just don’t wear it anymore. But sorry ladies, I am still taken! More updates on that as they are available.

(Thank God my wife doesn’t read this blog regularly. Otherwise my next update on the status of my hands would probably be how they were both removed at the wrist for that last comment…)

More updates to come if I still have fingers,

Matt

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