Sure thing Doc...
*<[;o)~~~ Merry Christmas!
Posted on 12/20/2009 12:39:13 PM PST by big truck
Word to the wise: do NOT stick your hand down the shute of a snowblower to clear an ice jam if the auger is still spinning. I let go of the hand control and thought the auger has stopped. Three broken fingers and two to-the-bone lacerations on my middle finger on my right hand have taught me this lesson today. The ER nurses and docs were very impressed. No work, no driving, great pain meds, lots of antibiotics, and seeing a hand surgeon tomorrow. Dumb, dumb, dumb...
At least you can still post on FR :) Get well soon.
Do not swallow
Or on vitamins: do not wear
No. My one neighbor took me to the ER and the rest took care of my blower. My 76 year old dad came aver to finish shoveling where the blower wouldn’t fit.
No pride - just a hrad lesson learned about being in a hurry and not taking 30 extra seconds and doing things right.
The 2010 Darwin award committee will be contacting you shortly.
Just kidding. Good luck.
Well, none of us is perfect.
I needed to wire-brush something once and didn’t clamp it down. That was how I found out the muscle in your thumb looks exactly like chicken breast when you very nicely and cleanly remove any overlying skin!!
Won’t pull that one again, fer sure!
Your thread reminds all of us to think before we do something that we shouldn’t, just because we’re in a hurry.
I hope you feel better and I’ve done plenty of stupid things too. Some of us are just luckier than others.
Looks like we may need to start a list of partial philanges amputees here! I’ve only got 9 toes due to a bicycle accident when I was 7—40 years ago they didn’t sew bits and pieces back on. To this day I still feel phantom pain where my little toe used to be! Weird!
LOLOL!
Is a video of that on YouTube? ;-)
Dang! I could have probably gone for the rest of my life without seeing that picture!!
(Still better than a Helen Thomas one though!)
Saturday mornings at the local Fleet Farm store is a real educational experience. When we go into the store, I have a contst with my kids on how many patrons are missing a part. Arms, hands, fingers. The PTO shaft on tractors will gitchya good.
I worked on a farm as a kid. You get one healthy respect for animals and machines! That stuff can kill ya so quick, you would never even realize you were dead!
Heard all the stories about guys coming out of the back end of hay balers - in a bale...
At our house, we call it a brain fart. Good luck and heal up quickly!
Sure thing Doc...
*<[;o)~~~ Merry Christmas!
The exercise if left to the readers to determine into which category you fall. For myself, I've made that determination.
As to your posting your... shall we use your word... "dumb" experience on an international forum for all to see:
"It is best to remain silent and be thought a fool, than to open one's mouth and remove all doubt."
Cheers. Soak wounds in alcohol from the inside out.
Will you share your great pain meds. All my dentist will give me is vicodin....
Sorry to hear BT, there but for the grace of God go I. I’ve done some things in the past that should have given me a Dawin Award/Hold Muy Beer Award.
BTW fanfan, FReep mail on the way.
I feel bad that I'm still laughing at your post...
The poor soul is probably typing with his nose...
Well it’s good to know you’ve still got your hand and fingers where they should be. Get well. And we know you won’t be doing this again, right?
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