Giving me The Finger

There must have been a reason why parents from around the world tell you not to bite.  Firstly, usually a fellow human does not taste good.  Secondly, it can be taken as an insult in many cultures, and thirdly, it hurts, and can do some sort of damage.  If someone bites you, you should make sure that you take good care of the wound.  Keep it clean, or it could get infected.  When I was in Sri Lanka, one of the first cases of true gas gangrene that I saw was secondary to a human bite.  Yesterday, I met a woman who was bitten on the finger.  Although it happened several days ago, she seemed to think it was getting better.  But she finally came in to be evaluated when it didn't improve.  It's hard to know how she figured out that something was wrong.  The picture is what it looked like when I saw it.

Shortly after this picture was taken, she gave me the finger.  There was not much a struggle to get it removed.