Almost Lost My Thumb!

Please be careful. Music and gear is too important to jeapordise its pursuit by being otherwise responsible or productive!
 
I still have my appendix, which is unusual, as both parents and both brothers had theirs removed...
 
RVA said:
Hey Relic!!!
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Waazzup!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Relic said:
That reminds me of my lawnmower blade accident. Lawnmower...? Yeah right? wth? Do tell you say???

I just finished taking the blades off the lawnmower deck & putting a nice sharp fresh edge on them & then proceeding to put them back on the lawnmower. I had everything snugged up nice 'n finger tight & just had to tighten the bolts down that hold the blades in place... all that needed was that one good final ratchet turn using some muscle to insure things don't let loose.

So.. I give that wrench one last forceful pull with a good amount of muscle behind it & the damn socket twists off the bolt! The wrench goes flying & my hand goes right into that freshly sharpened blade! OWww!! Mutha fvk'r!! OWWWahh!! Right across my two left hand playing fingers & down to the bone!

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Lucky me, everything healed pretty good, not perfect but good enough. plus I can play like it never happened so..
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Barry, when did that happen with your mower blades? OUCHHHH
 
gasket said:
The worst thing ...
the sickening feeling of what COULD have happened, not of what DID happen.
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I was demoing windows one day at work, and after removal of one from a brick opening, I had to use a sawzall to cut the nails off before installing the new window.
Standing in the opening looking up as I sawed nails above my head, I cut through one only to have it land on my eyelid then found myself brushing the hot nail off my seared skin on the upper and lower lid.

Needless to say, I avoided what Gasket is referring to.
 
Barry, I had 4 stitches across my right index finger on the knuckle where I jammed it between the log and the pointed edge of the wedge on a log splitter when I was 18.
I could have easily had a weird angled shorter finger but luckily avoided that. My next injury to that hand was when I went to catch a drill while working on a window at a customer's house.
I wound up catching the skinny 5/64ths drill bit instead of the drill and it punctured my palm as I wound up pushing the drill against the brick wall. My palm quickly filled with blood and got infected by the next day. The result after healing was lessened strength and dexterity in my index and middle fingers on the right hand.
 
chilipeppermaniac said:
Barry, I had 4 stitches across my right index finger on the knuckle where I jammed it between the log and the pointed edge of the wedge on a log splitter when I was 18.
I could have easily had a weird angled shorter finger but luckily avoided that. My next injury to that hand was when I went to catch a drill while working on a window at a customer's house.
I wound up catching the skinny 5/64ths drill bit instead of the drill and it punctured my palm as I wound up pushing the drill against the brick wall. My palm quickly filled with blood and got infected by the next day. The result after healing was lessened strength and dexterity in my index and middle fingers on the right hand.
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Damn! That drill story made me weak in the knees nauseous!
 
Alex and Barry, it was no big deal. If you guys had seen a nail sticking through my finger the time I was using a trim nail gun nailing up a piece of Oak, I might agree it could be a little pukey. While nailing wood trim above my head and applying it to the underside of a staircase,the trim split like a 4 inch long split as the gun sunk the first nail and proceeded to slip and punch a 2nd trim nail thru the fleshy part of my left index finger and stayed in there. My buddy I work with asked me what I wanted to do like him take me to a Dr. or something else. Since it did not hit the bone or anything, I told him, " it doesn't hurt, let me think about it a sec." He then suggested, getting some cutters and lopping the head off and pulling it thru. In the end, he tried but it made him worry about hurting me, so I took over and cut it off and pulled it thru, myself. Applied some antibiotic cream and wrapped it in electrical tape and worked all day that way. No issues arose and I went and got a tetanus shot the next day. No issues after that.
 
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I was not around for this but my friend Dick is a tile man. Once when he was building his house, he tried his Hand so to speak, at being a carpenter.
He lost the battle with the circular saw and it sawed across his hand to where it nearly flapped open like a lid on a cigar box. Thankfully he did not lose his hand or the use of it after his doc put him back together.

Another buddy had a lawn tractor roll on him. He escaped without the blades hitting his head, but they took a chunk out of his calf and 3 toes. He picked up his toes and wrapped them. Went to hosp and told them to put em back on even if they questioned how they would take. They managed to survive albeit I think they have no feeling. He is a very smart guy, but was stupid enough to cut grass in improper shoes or bare feet. I hoped he never repeated that stupidity.
 
You've gotta watch out for them knifes or anything sharp, or else you will cut your brother in half by accident. You'll be singing the blues after that.:(



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nearly took my entire right index finger tip off about 10 years ago. when it brushed the flywheel of a running 150hp outboard I was working on.
tore it up pretty good but the Doc glued and taped it back together, no sutures.
Hardly even a scar. it gets tingly sometimes when my hands get real cold; you know how they burn as you warm up again, the nerves must have taken some damage.
Tetanus shot day too.

I hit my thumb with a hammer type stapler around 1985 and one leg of the staple went through my thumbnail into the bone.
I hung a pair of vice grips off it and showed my other roofer buddies; they were quite impressed.

This reminds me of the scene the first Jaws movie of the 3 of them comparing scars and starting to bond.

Chili, your hot metal story reminds me that stick welding spatter sometimes gets in the darndest places, even wearing the right gear.

my grandpa lost most of his fingers as a factory worker on a punch press.
Guy did incredibly well but just couldnt do some things, like small buttons.

Could open a beer can and blue claw crabs just fine. Still remember my first sips of Schlitz beer around 5 or 6 with him.
 
Almost Christmas and m thumb has still t completely healed...I think I may have nicked the bone???
 
Things just heal slower as we get older.
I am more careful but sh*t happens
I just got a not serious but oh so bloody cut on the side of my left ring finger. Brushed it against a sheet metal edge repairing / replacing the power cord on an electric heater.

No big deal but I am uber wary now of injuring my hands and fingers since starting trying to learn guitar.
 
jtcnj said:
nearly took my entire right index finger tip off about 10 years ago. when it brushed the flywheel of a running 150hp outboard I was working on.
tore it up pretty good but the Doc glued and taped it back together, no sutures.
Hardly even a scar. it gets tingly sometimes when my hands get real cold; you know how they burn as you warm up again, the nerves must have taken some damage.
Tetanus shot day too.

I hit my thumb with a hammer type stapler around 1985 and one leg of the staple went through my thumbnail into the bone.
I hung a pair of vice grips off it and showed my other roofer buddies; they were quite impressed.

This reminds me of the scene the first Jaws movie of the 3 of them comparing scars and starting to bond.

Chili, your hot metal story reminds me that stick welding spatter sometimes gets in the darndest places, even wearing the right gear.

my grandpa lost most of his fingers as a factory worker on a punch press.
Guy did incredibly well but just couldnt do some things, like small buttons.

Could open a beer can and blue claw crabs just fine. Still remember my first sips of Schlitz beer around 5 or 6 with him.
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JT etc, I have seen some people or heard of some of the worst accidental injuries I could have never thought of being possible.

Once while on a church trip, some fellas and I got to telling a few stories and this one guy told me of a guy who was starting up one of those propellor planes you start up by pulling on the prop. Supposedly the plane rolled forward on him and the prop literally shredded that guy to death.

Another guy I met at church had a near death accident with a ditch witch. He survived and gave thanks to the homeowner who basically kept him from bleeding to death. However, he did lose one arm and the opposite leg. I think of him often as one of my initial thoughts while watching him use a crutch to walk with. I think about how at least he had the opposing limbs still good. That way he would not topple over while hopping along on that crutch.

These are the kinds of stories that put life in perspective for me especially if the trials of the world get to makin a soul feelin sorry for oneself.
 
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