It was the first thing that popped into my head too. It probably has something to do with me being a redhead.

I had to change the bandages and clean the wound myself for the first time tonight; it's creepy, looking at a piece of black thread that's tying my fingertip together, but I didn't freak out at all. I even snapped a couple of photos of it. I suppose it would be in bad taste for me to post them?