Keeping the dirt
from under their fingernails?
When you're not scraping baby poop out
from under your fingernails or trying to work out how obvious the baby sick on your denim jacket is, you're desperately trying to get the snot out of your baby's nose.
When I come in from a hard day of zombie hunting, it won't be just dirt that I'll need to get out
from under my fingernails.
This can lead to infection if you break the skin, and bacteria
from under your fingernails can get into the wound.
Not exact matches
But now we are home, I've got an inch of dirt
under my
fingernails from all the weeds I had to dig out of the garden and on a walk today some random guy said hello to my kids and then said «¡ Hola!
One time at lunch at the Quarters, my wife reached for her coat and a splinter
from the rough, wooden wall got embedded painfully
under her
fingernail.
Martha Cota awakened one morning to find her infant son, Jose Miguel, gasping for air, his lips and the skin
under his
fingernails blue
from lack of oxygen.
On that Tuesday in January, when her life changed forever, Martine Rhodes woke with a headache, developed a sour stomach after washing down two aspirin with grapefruit juice, guaranteed herself an epic bad - hair day by mistakenly using Dustin's shampoo instead of her own, broke a
fingernail, burnt her toast, discovered ants swarming through the cabinet
under the kitchen sink, eradicated the pests by firing a spray can of insecticide as ferociously as Sigourney Weaver wielded a flamethrower in one of those old extraterrestrial - bug movies, cleaned up the resultant carnage with paper towels, hummed Bach's Requiem as she solemnly consigned the tiny bodies to the trash can, and took a telephone call
from her mother, Sabrina, who still prayed for the collapse of Martie's marriage three years after the wedding.
It's been estimated that the dirt
under your
fingernails from gardening may contain 100 oocysts!