<human>: Give me a shortened version of the text

This happened less than a week ago. 

My wife and I recently moved to a new (to us) house and I've been really going above and beyond to make it feel like it's "ours". So I've been installing shelving, organizing stuff and I even built some cool shelves from old pallets. 

This day I was on a roll. My wife was at work and I'd already installed some shelving in the laundry room and a new wall-mounted coat rack. Next up: an old mirror had started to separate from the frame so I decided I'd re-glue it into place. When my wife gets back I'll have scored so many imaginary points.

Step 1: Remove old glue. 

Seems easy enough - I reach for my utility knife, slide it in between the glue and old frame and pry. The tip of the blade chips right off. No problem - toss the shard in the trash and I now have a nice 1/2" long piece of metal to continue prying. Shove it under the glue and pry up again. 

This time instead of the blade chipping off it slips out of the groove AND right into my wrist. I look down and sure enough I have a nice gash that's slowly widening. I have a bad history of squeamishness and immediately start to feel light headed. I grab a band-aid and paper towel. Apply pressure and sit down as my wobbly legs are ready to give out.

At this point I'm unsure of whether I need to go to the hospital, but I eventually make the wise decision to text my brother (wife's still at work) and calmly request a ride. For the next 15 minutes I contemplate how pathetic it would be to die, sweaty on my sofa from such a tiny mistake. 

I get to urgent care (highly recommended for relatively minor injuries if you don't have health insurance) and the doc calmly give me 4 stitches. He says I'm lucky I chipped it prior to stabbing myself and I also luckily missed an artery. If the blade had been it's original pointy-ness I would have been in worse shape.
<bot>: Tried removing glue from a mirror with a utility knife, ended up stabbing myself in the wrist - requiring 4 stitches.