I managed to slice the top of my left thumb open and cut the tendon. Ouch! Well, it was a slow day and I hadn't been to the ER in a couple of decades. So I am thinking a couple of stitches, a bandaid and I am back! Not quite. Three for the tendon and seven to close the thumb. Then they put a fiberglass brace on that reaches out past my thumb and back up to my elbow! Dang! That is going to interfere with pushing the little red radio button!

So all I want for Christmas is my thumb back!

Man, that sucks!! Sorry to hear that! Shouldn't take too long for the thumb to heal though. I would think anyway.

Hey ,Join the club..........Hacked/smashed the end of my middle finger off last week on a wood splitter ,Good times...........Right hand,,,,,,,, I can still work the throttle so its OK,,,,,,Hurts like shit though

Jr.CubBuilder wrote:..... the docs had to reach back up under the skin of his hand with a tool and fish the tendon back down, reattach it, and then the damm thing came loose again later I hope this next time takes.

This sounds like when the rudder return spring come unattached (twice) in my 170. I hope you paid attention to how they did it -- might come in handy sometime.

Eric

Dang Rod! How'd you do it? Box knife? Butterknife? Chainsaw?

1SeventyZ wrote:Dang Rod! How'd you do it? Box knife? Butterknife? Chainsaw?

Well, it involves two midget women and a sheep wearing boots.....

Actually a freshly sharpened chisel slipped and caught my thumb. Designed and built my own home and never hurt my self. Cut and split five cords of wood a year and never hurt myself. Fly an airplane and never hurt myself. Try and lay a small piece of flooring...BTW, why do ER triage nurses wear all white and insist on seeing what it is you have tightly wrapped in a washcloth while applying pressure?

Was the nurse hot?

Skystrider wrote:

1SeventyZ wrote:Dang Rod! How'd you do it? Box knife? Butterknife? Chainsaw?

Well, it involves two midget women and a sheep wearing boots.....

Actually a freshly sharpened chisel slipped and caught my thumb. Designed and built my own home and never hurt my self. Cut and split five cords of wood a year and never hurt myself. Fly an airplane and never hurt myself. Try and lay a small piece of flooring...BTW, why do ER triage nurses wear all white and insist on seeing what it is you have tightly wrapped in a washcloth while applying pressure?

"Home projects more deadly than any pursuit of man" I would attribute this to an individual but don't know who? it must have been said by someone!

58Skylane wrote:Was the nurse hot?

She was hot after the blood splashed all over her pants and shoes!

Rod,
She probably mistook you for one of the drama winners that show up clutching their hand like it was amputated and it turns out to be a small scrape once it is cleaned up. It's not often we get to see real carnage and spurting blood. As for the white outfit... I couldn't guess. Where I work we wear maroon scrubs and blood just blends in. Of course you still hate to have it on your shoes.

Rod--
I feel your pain, while talking on the phone to one of you guys I was inspecting my freshly sharpened pocket knife (read playen') and just about hacked my left thumb off at the joint.and yes I do remember the nurse saying something when I un wraped that rag from my diget....


But I did get this !!!


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