T.T.: The Glue That Binds

I have a tip! And it's not about food! It's not a Tuesday, but I'm going to pass it along to you anyway in the hopes it might help one of you. 

I tend to dry skin, and my hands are one of the biggest issues I have with that. I spend a lot of time with my hands in water or damp. Mostly because I cook so much that I'm constantly washing them, but also because of dishes. And I absolutely detest the feeling of gloves. I won't wear them. I always feel too clumsy in gloves. 

This results in dry skin on my hands, and, most annoyingly, in skin fissures on my right thumb.

A skin fissure is just a small crack in the skin that looks like a slit. I most commonly get them on the corner of my thumbnail. They're tiny, but surprisingly painful and hard to heal. 

The past week, I got one of these fissures in the center of my thumb, and it actually extended underneath the nail. 

It's very hard to get a good picture of a skin fissure, apparently. But it's there! (And trust me, this is a way less disgusting picture than you would see if you searched for the term skin fissure. I cannot handle the images that always accompany medical articles online. Gross.)

It was very ow, and also kept getting dirty because I was working in the garden so much.

Before anyone says it, no, I won't wear gloves in the garden, either.

Anyway.

Apart from the pain of this little fissure, I really wanted to keep it covered so the dirt wouldn't get in there. But the tip of a finger is a very hard place to keep a bandage on, especially because, again, my hands are constantly wet, which means I'm constantly having to change bandages on my hands.

Superglue to the rescue!

Okay, actually, I used Gorilla Super Glue, but same idea. Just a little dot right there on the fissure, and I could go about my merry way.

I don't know why it took me so long to think of this.

The glue only stayed put for about a day, thanks to, again, all the work my hands do and the subsequent washing, but that was long enough for the skin to start knitting together.

So! If you too are too stubborn to wear gloves and plagued by tiny little slits in your skin that keep getting vinegar or whatever in them, causing you to swear internally while you sprint for the sink to wash your hands YET AGAIN . . . 

Head to your nearest hardware store and grab some extra-strength adhesive. It'll cure what ails you.