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DrunkMonkey

Six Stitches

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...Was cutting metal on the Jeep I'm rebuilding. Was using my angle grinder with a cutting wheel.

The wheel jumped.

I look at my right hand. An inch-long gash, on the side of my right hand, just between the knuckle of my index finger and the webbing of my thumb. Suddenly, blood drops the size of hershey kisses are falling on the floor.

Oh Shit.

Run to the laundry room, get a dishtowel, apply pressure. Boy Scouts taught me well.

Once I realized that this was not a Band-aid type of thing, one idea in my mind-where's the closest ER?

Get to the ER.

Needles suck. Even those numbing up my hand.

Irrigation is not pleasent to watch, especially when the cut is 1.1cm DEEP.

six stitches, tetanus booster.

X rays to ensure I did not chip the bone.

Neuro exam to ensure I did not cut a nerve or tendon.

Ugh. I wanted to go mountain biking today.

But I am glad that I can still count to ten without taking a shoe off or unzipping my fly...:o

But there is an upside...


...Vicodin. :)

My posts are wierd enough without narcotics...

First dose in 5 min.

P.S. Gotta love Tricare. All of this: $Free.

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Damn....just think....had you been here you could've got me in the ER to sew you up. Wouldn't that have been a riot! Reading your story makes me drool. Wish I had sewn someone up tonight....lol

Peace~
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Duuuuude...that sucks! I'm glad that you've still got your fingers nerves and all. You got seriously lucky! Were you wearing gloves? (I'm not trying to sound self righteous, I almost never wear gloves when even welding...I know I should, it just gets hot and I get lazy).

Had you taken the guard off the angle grinder?

I've had my grinder jump on me before...hell, I've had a composite metal blade on my chop saw come apart on me too...I've gotten lucky the first time then I think about that everytime I'm working on something now and stand clear/keep hands away.
--"When I die, may I be surrounded by scattered chrome and burning gasoline."

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Duuuuude...that sucks! I'm glad that you've still got your fingers nerves and all. You got seriously lucky! Were you wearing gloves? (I'm not trying to sound self righteous, I almost never wear gloves when even welding...I know I should, it just gets hot and I get lazy).

Had you taken the guard off the angle grinder?

I've had my grinder jump on me before...hell, I've had a composite metal blade on my chop saw come apart on me too...I've gotten lucky the first time then I think about that everytime I'm working on something now and stand clear/keep hands away.



Yes, the guard was off. I'm an idiot, and now the poster child for workplace safety/OSHA...

My gloves were so torn up, they provided no help.

I'm a tard on all counts...

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I'm a tard on all counts...



And a dumbass too!! :P Now get yo punkass to IL for the par-tay!!



I only wish the Air Force would let me go. I expect a job offer next monday, and I only hope they'll hold the job for me until I get back to Chicago...grrr...

This Vicodin is making me feel like fuzzy Jell-o...

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When I was 10 I was about to go bike riding with a couple of my friends. But before we left I wanted to make a couple adjustments to the brake on the front tire, so I loosened the quick-release and took the front wheel off. I made the changes and put the wheel back on, but sorta forgot to tighten down the quick release....

....I made it to the bottom of my driveway before the front wheel came completely off and I went face-first into the pavement. I stood up and tried to act like everything was cool, but my friends were all pointing at the huge gash that I had split open in my chin. Took 15 stitches to put it all back together.

I did get some nice paid meds tho...

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Cool...........I'll always remember a summer evening when I was a kid. My Mom was taking me fishing on a neighbor's pond that is all the way out through the pasture and a 1/4 mile through the woods on an old logging road. We were out in a boat a little ways from shore when my Dad comes walking up.......I remember him holding one hand with the other and he says to my Mom all non-chalant....... "Hey..... I have to go to the hospital. I'll be back in a couple hours OK." :D My Mom....knowing my Dad asks "What the hell did you do?" Dad-"Oh I cut my finger with the saw." Turns out he all but severed 4 of his fingers with a skill saw. :D:D:D They were only hanging on by a bit of skin.......so he takes the time to walk all that way just to tell us. No cell phones in those days........:D He is a nut!

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