better

Two beers really did the trick last night.  The finger was feeling better, and I was sleepy enough to go to bed really early.  I'm sure the rest helped.

I tried to clean up the wound again this morning, but I didn't get very far.  I made the mistake yesterday of taking the torn-off skin and laying it back down across the wound.  So today, of course, it's stuck together even though the skin is dead now.  I'm not tearing it back off again, so it'll have to drop off in its own time.  At least it doesn't look infected to me, so no trip to the doctor is needed.  And the swelling under the fingernail has gone down, so it's not throbbing much today.

Here's a link to the photo that I took this morning, so the squeamish don't have to look at it unnecessarily.