It's also good to have a nurse for a neighbor. One Father's day about 10 years ago I was cutting some plywood on a table saw. It was a hot day and I was tired and not thinking smart. Short story I ended up getting my left hand tangled in a table saw. Let's just say it hurt like the dickens. After the first shock passed (think I may have passed out for a second) I was able to reach over and turn off the saw. I then was able to retrieve the rest of thumb from the mechanism.

I was in the basement and both my daughters were home but neither heard my screaming (teenagers and loud music). I wrapped my right hand around my left wrist to try to stop the blood loss. I knew I had to get someone's attention but I started worrying about going up the stairs to the first floor because I didn't want to drip blood all over the floors... really. So I managed to get out the basement door to the outside and started to really yell for help. My neighbor, the nurse, heard me and came running from half a block away.

The rest is not a blur, I remember every excruciating moment. I remember the police chief asking my neighbor if she needed gloves as she was keeping pressure on my wrist and she saying no (we'd been friends for 25 years and knew my 'lifestyle' was not a risk to her).

Honestly don't know if I was just lucky or reacted with just enough smarts to not turn a really painful event into a final one. Probably both.

That was not a good summer. The guy my wife hired to finish the job I had been working on set my house on fire.

(Great story on the house fire. My DW was at work when a neighbor called the school offce to tell her about the fire. My wife's principal, when my wife said she was leaving school, actually asked "Did you know your house was burning before you came to work?" Absolutely a true story.)

No moral to this story except that when it's hot and you're tired don't work with power tools.

End result was a week in the hospital (missed our 25th anniversary and my DW's birthday) and only 9 prints on a 10 print card.

Blast, my best to your neighbor and I don't think I'm moving to your neighboorhood any time soon.