My Ring and the KY Jelly

Firstly, my apologies for smutty amongst you (eh, Lance Corporal).  The story does not live up to the headline.

It seems that yesterday whilst at Huffty's Football birthday party I must have been bitten my an insect on my wedding ring finger.  Bites from insects don't normally trouble me, but last night I noticed that the finger was swollen.

Kitten suggested that I remove the ring before retiring but, foolishly I ignored her advice.  This morning the finger had swollen and soap and water proved inadequate for the task.

My concerns were two-fold.  Firstly, I didn't want the ring to cause further swelling but my main concern was the reacion of my finger as it was much worse than I have previously experienced.

I rang the Marsden and they advised A&E, so of I went.

Casualty was the quietest I have ever seen (8:30 am Sunday morning) but it seems that I queue jumped anyway - there have to be some perks to being ill! 

The nurse was poised and ready to cut the ring off, but at the last moment she suggested that we try some KY Jelly first.  It was quite a wrestle for a couple of minutes but I managed to prize my ring off in one piece, which I was pleased about from a symbolic viewpoint.

So ice and anti-histamine for me and I will give the my research nurse a ring tomorrow to see my team think that the issue can be closed.  I have come this far without getting any major problems during chemotherapy,  so I don't want to fall at the last hurdle before operation on something seemingly so innocuous.