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

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

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.

Beat me to it

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

Glad you are doing better.

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???

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...

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.