The price of my Dumbledore finger

After all this reporting on health care stuff, it was only fitting that I have a fun health issue of my own this summer. I was lucky it was just the Dumbledore finger (here are new photos for those of you following its progress).

As you know, I got a tetanus shot and had the little guy drained at the emergency room. Mom called today and said the bill was more than $1,000. Insurance paid for much of that, but wow. My new project: Find out how much it would have cost to have the same procedures in a non-emergency setting. I'll get back to ya.

Speaking of Dumbie, he's so named because (it hurts me to realize that I have to explain this to the Muggles among you) in HBP, Dumbledore gets into a battle that kills his hand. I tried and failed to find a good photo, but it turns all black and dead-looking. Just like Dumbie.

And now that I'm on a Wikipedia-linking spree, did y'all realize that there are uses of the word "Muggle" outside the realm of Harry Potter? And that it's a slang term for marijuana? That JK Rowling. So edgy.