On Dec 23, 11:31=A0pm, "Lew Hodgett" <[email protected]> wrote:
> Enjoy
>
> Lew
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Nice technique. I love safe thoughts. I have a lampshade to build with
many small parts. This will surely help.
On Dec 24, 1:31=A0am, "Lew Hodgett" <[email protected]> wrote:
> Enjoy
>
> Lew
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I don't know why but it reminded me of my least pleasant shop day,
about 12 years ago. I was cutting several small spacers on the saw.
When finished I flipped the switch off. gathered the pieces and walked
away. As I turned I realized I didn't have all of them and saw one on
the table top. Reached over to pick it up and "Tink-tink-tink" as the
still turning blade contacted the pointer finger on my right hand.
Spent the afternoon at the emergency room getting hamburger cleaned
out of the wound, having my tetanus shots updated and getting a load
of antibiotics.
Probably the best thing that ever happened to me because I haven't
looked at that blade in the say way since then.
RonB
On Dec 24, 11:32=A0am, Larry Blanchard <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Sat, 24 Dec 2011 07:20:34 -0800, RonB wrote:
> > Reached over to pick it up and "Tink-tink-tink" as the still turning
> > blade contacted the pointer finger on my right hand.
>
> You're not alone. =A0I did the same thing a couple of years ago.
>
> But having experience with emergency rooms, I knew all they would do was
> clean the wound and bandage it - I chose to stay home and treat it myself=
.
> But my tetanus shot was up to date.
>
> BTW, non-stick bandages are great! =A0Something hospitals don't seem to
> have discovered. =A0Last time they treated a damaged finger for me,
> changing the bandages they used was the most painful part of the whole
> process.
>
> --
> Intelligence is an experiment that failed - G. B. Shaw
I thought about skipping the hospital but I was pretty sure it got
into the bone. It did, so they had to give me antibiotics. I found
out years ago that dirty bone injuries are a good way to get into all
kinds of infections.
RonB
On Sat, 24 Dec 2011 07:20:34 -0800, RonB wrote:
> Reached over to pick it up and "Tink-tink-tink" as the still turning
> blade contacted the pointer finger on my right hand.
You're not alone. I did the same thing a couple of years ago.
But having experience with emergency rooms, I knew all they would do was
clean the wound and bandage it - I chose to stay home and treat it myself.
But my tetanus shot was up to date.
BTW, non-stick bandages are great! Something hospitals don't seem to
have discovered. Last time they treated a damaged finger for me,
changing the bandages they used was the most painful part of the whole
process.
--
Intelligence is an experiment that failed - G. B. Shaw
> Reached over to pick it up and "Tink-tink-tink" as the still turning
> blade contacted the pointer finger on my right hand.
You're not alone. I did the same thing a couple of years ago.
But having experience with emergency rooms, I knew all they would do was
clean the wound and bandage it - I chose to stay home and treat it myself.
But my tetanus shot was up to date.
BTW, non-stick bandages are great! Something hospitals don't seem to
have discovered. Last time they treated a damaged finger for me,
changing the bandages they used was the most painful part of the whole
process.
**************************************
I reached across a blade that was too high still under full power. Thumb
almost to the bone.
Did you snip all the damaged meat out before closing it? They did, for me.
I had a nice saw kerf in my thumb before they closed it. As far as non
stick bandages go, yeah. big help. They did not have much like that in
1984.
-- Jim in NC
On Sat, 24 Dec 2011 10:49:10 -0800 (PST), RonB <[email protected]>
wrote:
>On Dec 24, 11:32 am, Larry Blanchard <[email protected]> wrote:
>> On Sat, 24 Dec 2011 07:20:34 -0800, RonB wrote:
>> > Reached over to pick it up and "Tink-tink-tink" as the still turning
>> > blade contacted the pointer finger on my right hand.
>>
>> You're not alone. I did the same thing a couple of years ago.
>>
>> But having experience with emergency rooms, I knew all they would do was
>> clean the wound and bandage it - I chose to stay home and treat it myself.
>> But my tetanus shot was up to date.
>>
>> BTW, non-stick bandages are great! Something hospitals don't seem to
>> have discovered. Last time they treated a damaged finger for me,
>> changing the bandages they used was the most painful part of the whole
>> process.
>
>I thought about skipping the hospital but I was pretty sure it got
>into the bone. It did, so they had to give me antibiotics. I found
>out years ago that dirty bone injuries are a good way to get into all
>kinds of infections.
Aw, heck. Just dip the stub into the car battery and it's good as new.
Debrided and everything! A swish of Betadine, a swab of Bacitracin,
butterfly it closed, and walk it off. Nexxxxxxxxxxt!
--
Truth loves to go naked.
--Dr. Thomas Fuller, Gnomologia, 1732