The bowling score comment was silly (and trivial). However, hand injuries are not. My hand surgeon said hands are the worst thing to injure. Meanwhile, because I do have a legitimate hand injury, I understand how easily a hand can be hurt and if it has to do with nerves (like mine) that does not present so readily.
I’m not saying people do not sue for fraudulent reasons, it’s just that I find so much unkindness on FR that it bums me out almost as much as the current POTUS and all the other crummy stuff that happens in our world.
The Bible says, “Be ye kind to one another.” So much for that.
I heard somewhere, and then looked it up on the net to confirm, that the tendons on the back of the hand are very close to the surface. ANY cut on the backs of the hands should be looked at by a doctor. (No, I don’t follow those instructions, but perhaps I should.)
But, it seems like it can happen where a cut on the back of a finger can nick a tendon, which in time can tear, and then it gets pulled apart and breaks like a rubber band. And then is hard to reattach.
I don’t think the bowling mention was done out of malice. It was just brought up because the woman mentioned it. Since we really don’t know the full story (seems the incident happened a year ago and now just brought up) there could be some deceit in it, maybe, perhaps.
Sooo, here I am foreman in this cabinet shop.
I catch Barry running cabinet door rails using a highly stupid method. I give him a formal warning and tell him a repeat would be cause for termination.
A couple of weeks later Barry is running door parts again.
The project manager and I are going over an upcoming job 15 feet away when the shaper makes a sound sorta like a fuuuwhump and Barry screams, grabbing his hand.
He drops to the floor on his knees.
I go running over and pry his one hand off the other.
It is a little hard for my brain to decipher the information being fed to it through my optical sensors.
Barry’s hand is a mess.
I look at the project manager and told him to call 911.
I look at Barry’s hand again and back at the project manager and told him to stop and to go get in his truck.
Barry is a total basket case.
I have to pick him up and carry him outside to the waiting vehicle.
Barry did a triple screw up.
He was wearing gloves.
He didn’t have the guard over the cutters.
He was using that same sht-fer-brains method.
He lost all four fingers on that hand below the middle knuckle.
This operation uses a six cutter stack that is kinda sorta like a meat grinder. Most of the grind went up the vacuum system.
I did find a knuckle joint over by the clamp rack. No meat on it. Just the bone(s). Judging from it’s size, it may have been part of his pinky. But that is just a guess.
I sent it to the hospital cause they wanted to know if there were any parts they could use for reconstruction.
But, ah, no. Not a chance.
He sued everything in sight and for a brief moment was a gazillionaire.
He bought a Harley Davidson motorcycle with some of that money and was killed in an accident shortly after.