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Andrew Murray

This morning I noticed my right index finger was quite swollen. It had become infected under the cuticle, not in the side like a normal infected finger nail so it's quite tender and painful. I decided to lance the nail which was very painful. Using a number of tools I managed to punch a hole through. Before all that however I wanted to compare its size to my other index finger.

It's a thing i do regularly. If my knee d a bit swollen I compare it to the other. If my right arm is sunburnt I compare it to the left and so on and so forth.

Out bodies being somewhat symmetrical makes it convenient to compare damage or change with the corresponding part, if my eye is itchy I can look in the mirror and compare to other one and see if it is red or swollen.

So of course I woke up and went to compare he swelling in my right index finger to the left.

The right has a bandaid on it now. But here it is.