#148891 - 09/14/08 10:29 PM
Minor "oops" and a reminder
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Registered: 08/19/03
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Loc: Queens, New York City
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When something heavy, particularly if it might havs a sharp edge, DONT try to catch it
I was digging aroung in the basement, looking for a tool, when my smoothing plane fell off the shelf, and yeah, I tried to grab it. (someone extended the blade ALL the way - probably my 7 YO son, but)
Put a nice 2.5" long quite deep cut in my left pinkie.
Dropped the plane, ran upstairs, grabbed some papre towels, and went for direct pressure, walked next door, got a neighbor to come over and help me bandage the figer well enough to go to the ER and have it checked - no nerve/tendon dammage (yeah!) so just 3 stitches, and some bandages.
My family was not home, luckly a neighbor was.
I was not doing anything that would normally be considered dangerous (I won't use power tools while home alone, or even sharp hand tools) - I was just trying to get some tools setup, none of which were sharp/dangerous, but...)
Because of the location of the cut, they want me to keep the stitches in 2 weeks - joy, typing with 9 fingers is not fun
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#148893 - 09/14/08 11:00 PM
Re: Minor "oops" and a reminder
[Re: KG2V]
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Glad you are going to be ok. I wasn't so lucky and cut a tendon in half on my ring finger I`m not sure about you but I was in more pain when i twas cleaned than when it happened. -Todd
Edited by ToddW (09/14/08 11:00 PM)
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#148895 - 09/14/08 11:15 PM
Re: Minor "oops" and a reminder
[Re: KG2V]
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typing with 9 fingers is not fun I do it with 2.
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#148899 - 09/15/08 12:02 AM
Re: Minor "oops" and a reminder
[Re: CityBoyGoneCountry]
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Pooh-Bah
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typing with 9 fingers is not fun I do it with 2. Interesting. You must be quite the unusual specimen. The most talented typist I know only uses eight fingers and two thumbs. I don't think I have ever met anyone with ten fingers. After years of practice I moved into the more advanced level of two fingers, two thumbs, and occasionally my forehead. A vast improvement in efficiency.
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#148900 - 09/15/08 12:03 AM
Re: Minor "oops" and a reminder
[Re: CityBoyGoneCountry]
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typing with 9 fingers is not fun I do it with 2. Beat me to it
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#148919 - 09/15/08 05:24 AM
Re: Minor "oops" and a reminder
[Re: Todd W]
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Loc: Queens, New York City
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Glad you are going to be ok. I wasn't so lucky and cut a tendon in half on my ring finger I`m not sure about you but I was in more pain when i twas cleaned than when it happened. -Todd Pressure irrigation - I was not properly numbed yet when they first tried - I think they heard me 2 floors up. I had a brand new MD. Seems he's been in the ER something like 10-12 days, so everything had to be checked by his "boss" It was a fun trip. The first thing that happened was that when they tried to draw the lidocane from the first bottle - it exploded - the MD and I got a bath in lidocane. Then the MDs had a discussion of "differenet ways to numb the finger" - aka where and how to inject The first set of injections nummed me from the knuckle to oh, mid way up the 2nd digit. When they went to clean - I screamed - they did a 2nd set, that got most of the finger numb, but when they got to the distal digit, I screamed, but not as loud. The did more, fine through the cleaning, but when they went to do the actual stitches, I said (not scream) Thathurts a bit - they did a 4th set, and then I totally lost the finger - to the point that as he was sewing me up, I said "I'd hate to saound mundane, but I'm hungry" (I cut myself at 11am, and it was now 2pm) To make this more fun, as I walked out of the ER, I called my wife. My father in law collapsed at the Mets game, and was rushed to the hospital - heat stroke. My F-I-L is one of those folks who is "always cold" and was wearing a 3 season jacket, cordoroy pants, and a wool hat - in 100 deg heat index. He spent about 6 hours in the hospital getting an IV, and being checked out. Edit: One thing I learned again - it's HARD to try and put dressings on yourself, in particular, your hands. Luckily, my neighbor was home to help me, and I could direct him right to the first aid kit
Edited by kc2ixe (09/15/08 05:26 AM) Edit Reason: add part about neighbor
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#148921 - 09/15/08 09:20 AM
Re: Minor "oops" and a reminder
[Re: KG2V]
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Glad you are doing better.
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#148937 - 09/15/08 12:56 PM
Re: Minor "oops" and a reminder
[Re: KG2V]
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Registered: 09/30/01
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I have a stupid habit of, when I drop something, quickly sticking my foot under it to break the fall. No matter what I drop, no matter what I have (or do not have) on my foot. Funny fact: a knife dropped will almost always end up going down point first (kinda like a dropped cat landing feet first. Right Blast?). Anyone else ever had a Buck 110 sticking out of the top of their bare foot???
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#148939 - 09/15/08 01:13 PM
Re: Minor "oops" and a reminder
[Re: OldBaldGuy]
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Reminds me of an article I once read where the author theorized that if you strapped a piece of toast butter side out to the back of a cat, you're create an anti-gravity device that would never touch the floor. I heard Blast is bored...
Speaking of bad habits, I heard of a person that used an industrial hot glue gun a lot and was in the habit quickly putting her fingers in her mouth when she got a little glue on them. One day she got a LOT of glue on them and put a fistfull of hot glue in her mouth...
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#148942 - 09/15/08 01:40 PM
Re: Minor "oops" and a reminder
[Re: thseng]
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Registered: 08/28/04
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Reminds me of an article I once read where the author theorized that if you strapped a piece of toast butter side out to the back of a cat, you're create an anti-gravity device that would never touch the floor. I heard Blast is bored... I read a Scientific American article that went through the math proving that a piece of toast pushed off a sharp cornered surface between 2 feet high and 9 feet high will rotate between 90 and 270 degrees- which means it will land buttered side down. In another issue was an article that described how a falling cat without any initial angular momentum can twist it's torso to land on it's feet. They haven't done both together yet, though.
Edited by GoatRider (09/15/08 01:40 PM)
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#148951 - 09/15/08 02:09 PM
Re: Minor "oops" and a reminder
[Re: OldBaldGuy]
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Registered: 08/19/03
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Loc: Queens, New York City
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I have a stupid habit of, when I drop something, quickly sticking my foot under it to break the fall. No matter what I drop, no matter what I have (or do not have) on my foot. Funny fact: a knife dropped will almost always end up going down point first (kinda like a dropped cat landing feet first. Right Blast?). Anyone else ever had a Buck 110 sticking out of the top of their bare foot??? Not a buck 110, but an x-acto knife in my teens
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#148952 - 09/15/08 02:14 PM
Re: Minor "oops" and a reminder
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...snip.. ps: There is a reason they call them power tools, some even come with motors these days! [/quote] 2 Things - this wasn't a power plane. It was a plain old #2 hand plane, and I wasn't even WORKING in the shop, I won't do that with no one home - I was cleaning up, to look for a tool that I could not find, when the plane fell off the bench. Last night when I felt better, I went downstairs, retracted the blade, cleaned off the blood (so it would not rust), put it in it's box, and put it back in it's proper place on the shelf (it was in the proper place, but not properly put away). I still have not found what I was looking for (a reloading press) - have NO idea where that is hiding
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#148957 - 09/15/08 02:27 PM
Re: Minor "oops" and a reminder
[Re: GoatRider]
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Loc: Mesa, AZ
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I had a bad experience with a new nurse at a Navy hospital. Maybe it was because I was Army but she brutalized me. Now i do not allow any new doctors work on me unless its vitals. Its silly but i make a point of asking every doctor I don't know who is going to work on me how long they have been doing it. It catches them off guard so they are usually honest.
I also ask for a business card or write their name down so that I don't get an over inflated bill. I had a doctor bill my insurance $650 for looking at my chart at the nurses station. I never met him and he never came in my room. I got that removed.
Be prepared in all aspects.
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#148970 - 09/15/08 02:55 PM
Re: Minor "oops" and a reminder
[Re: comms]
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That's why all of us Coasties and Marines know to "Never Trust The Navy"!!!!
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#148972 - 09/15/08 02:59 PM
Re: Minor "oops" and a reminder
[Re: wildman800]
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That's why all of us Coasties and Marines know to "Never Trust The Navy"!!!! With good reason.
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#148973 - 09/15/08 03:02 PM
Re: Minor "oops" and a reminder
[Re: comms]
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I had a doctor bill my insurance $650 for looking at my chart at the nurses station. I never met him and he never came in my room. I was charged $200 by a doctor who poked my ribs with his fingers for 10 seconds and told me "Even if they're broken, there's nothing I can do."
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#148976 - 09/15/08 03:24 PM
Re: Minor "oops" and a reminder
[Re: comms]
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Registered: 07/08/07
Posts: 1268
Loc: Northeastern Ontario, Canada
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About 20 years ago I had a lump on my shoulder blade removed, it seemed like a simple procedure so I had the new, young doctor in town do it in the hospital emergency room.
The doctor was a nice guy but during the procedure I found our that he was unprepared and inexperienced. He had no one to help him and did not have the correct instruments or amount of supplies needed; later the wound became very infected. The operation was not going well and I was getting nauseous so I started talking to the doctor to take my mind off the difficulties.
I asked him, "So, what did you do before you became a doctor"? He replied that he was a Geologist, and I have the scar to prove it!
Mike
(P.S. No slight against Geologists intended here, but this doctor should have stayed in mining instead of medicine).
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#148979 - 09/15/08 04:09 PM
Re: Minor "oops" and a reminder
[Re: SwampDonkey]
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I am not a P.P.o.W.
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Loc: Finger Lakes of NY State
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(P.S. No slight against Geologists intended here, but this doctor should have stayed in mining instead of medicine). Remember 50% of all Doctors graduate in the bottom half of their class.
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#148981 - 09/15/08 04:10 PM
Re: Minor "oops" and a reminder
[Re: KG2V]
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(someone extended the blade ALL the way - probably my 7 YO son, but)
Just a suggestion- this could be a teachable moment. Even if he didn't extend the blade, explaining to him (and everyone else in the family)- without placing blame- about putting things away properly leading to less bloodshed could emphasize the point. It's taken many years to convince my wife to tighten the caps on containers so that a little jostling on the shelf or in the 'fridge won't lead to a big spill......
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#149029 - 09/15/08 09:14 PM
Re: Minor "oops" and a reminder
[Re: KG2V]
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Registered: 09/30/01
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"...x-acto knife..."
Lots of them too. In fact, that was my first. Hurts, huh???
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#149030 - 09/15/08 09:16 PM
Re: Minor "oops" and a reminder
[Re: KG2V]
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I can kinda sorta maybe see the blade popping out from the impact with the floor, but not the falling part. And it had to have been out during the fall, or you wouldn't have received the cut...
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#149063 - 09/16/08 12:42 AM
Re: Minor "oops" and a reminder
[Re: KG2V]
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except I might have forgotten to fully retract the blade - it was WAY out when I got home, so it could be my fault. I'll have a safety talk with both kids, reminding them to put things away, but It might be better this way. Daddy messed up and got hurt pretty badly. We don't want anyone else to get hurt like this - ever! OK? Sort of suggests that putting objects with blades on high shelves might be a bad idea due to fumbling - falling - catching sequence. Lotsa ways to get hurt. Hard to totally prevent it. But it's worth trying!
Edited by unimogbert (09/16/08 12:42 AM)
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#149072 - 09/16/08 01:38 AM
Re: Minor "oops" and a reminder
[Re: unimogbert]
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Registered: 05/08/08
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I had something sort of similar happen to me once while cleaning the garage. I bumped into some tubular steel that was leaning against the wall and tried to catch it as it was falling. It was heavier than I expected and it drove my hand into the edge of some very greasy/dirty expanded steel (it comes that way from the supplier). So I had a very rough, very dirty cut on the top of two of my knuckles. Oh, and I was also at home by myself.
I was able to stop the bleeding, and drove myself to the ER (hand above my heart, wrapped in gauze and paper towels). It's a good thing they numbed it well because they had to literally scrub the grime out of it. I could feel the pressure, but I think the pain might have made me faint if I could have felt it. I got 4 stitches on one finger and two on the other.
When I called my wife to tell her, I started with, "Honey, don't panic, but I'm at the Emergency Room..." She still gives me a hard time about that.
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#149118 - 09/16/08 11:19 AM
Re: Minor "oops" and a reminder
[Re: unimogbert]
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Loc: Queens, New York City
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except I might have forgotten to fully retract the blade - it was WAY out when I got home, so it could be my fault. I'll have a safety talk with both kids, reminding them to put things away, but It might be better this way. Daddy messed up and got hurt pretty badly. We don't want anyone else to get hurt like this - ever! OK? Sort of suggests that putting objects with blades on high shelves might be a bad idea due to fumbling - falling - catching sequence. Lotsa ways to get hurt. Hard to totally prevent it. But it's worth trying! That's about how the safety talk will go The shelf was 2 ft off the floor - I was kneeling down, looking under the desk for something that I thought might be under there, when I knocked over said shelf, and grabbed the plane....
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