Jumpin' blue jaybirds, Bel! I don't know if there is invective strong enough to suit the accidental loss of a body part. It makes me cringe just to think about it ... is your poor little fingy OK now?

And who else besides me tends, when things are really, really, dire, to say nothing at all? [dark-glowering-storm-clouds-amidst-the-eerie-silence e]