This weekend, clutzy me knocked over a super-thin wine glass while gesticulating wildly during ‘game night’ with friends. It shattered and a large shard stabbed the middle finger of my left hand.

Went to the doc’s today and she told me I’d done some damage to the nerve (thus a mix of numbness and shooting pain). She asked the technician to X-ray said digit. That was the first time someone actually requested that I flip them the bird. Unfortunately I didn’t have my camera which could have chronicled what has to be one of the better X-ray artifacts. Anyway, I’m taking it as a sign from the cosmos to hang up my fighters’ gloves, at least for the Fall/Winter season as it heals, and to give peace a chance. [I will–on doctor’s orders–however have to exercise it daily when I take it out of the splint but I’ll try not to be like everyone else in L.A., and refrain from doing it while road raging in my vehicle].

Posted by Shana Ting Lipton