At eatswood a few weeks ago I was cleaning some bracken out of the top break above Corpse Crack and got a massive splinter in my thumb. It hurt like fuck and was buried really deep. Luckily I had some tweezers so pulled it out straight away, washed it with water and taped it before going home. It was painful for the next few days but started to get better so thought it was job done. However a few weeks later there is still some pain in the thumb and at the entry point there is a weird white mass below the skin, presumably scar tissue. I still can't use the thumb normally; eg pushing buttons without pain, wide pinching, applying pressure to it.
Anyway, I'm not sure how much of this can be put down to toxins in the bracken and the fact it really was quite a big splinter; there seems to be no pus below the surface or really severe inflammation so don't think it warrants a visit to the GP quite yet! Anyone had anything similar? I had a lot of similar splinters from blackthorn on a gardening job a few years ago and this reminds me a bit of that in terms of the inflammation that resulted, so might be some bacteria on the bracken? Seems a bit OTT for a splinter I know but given I need this thumb to crimp perhaps I'm overly cautious about it!