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03-10-2004, 11:58 PM
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Check this out
OK. This is real hard so bare with me. This is pic of my xray from today.
Stupid mistake at work with a table saw and you see the results. Dislocated middle finger with a small break, broken ring finger, broken little finger. The arrows point to the breaks. Got to have pins put in next Monday. The absolute worst pain I have ever had when they put it back in place, an this was with a hand full of local. The funny part if there is one was all the nurses had never seen a dislocated finger this bad. Oh, this my right hand and I'm right handed.  
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03-11-2004, 12:02 AM
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OUCH! That musta hurt!!
 Makes my hand hurt just seeing that!
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03-11-2004, 12:04 AM
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Wow!!!! Thats gotta hurt.
Hope everything turns out alright. |
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03-11-2004, 12:09 AM
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OWWWWW!
 Sorry to hear that, hope all goes well monday & everything heals up ok. Good luck to you...corn
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03-11-2004, 12:11 AM
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Damn Mike...that looks awfull!!
I am glad you are OK, and also glad you get to keep all your fingers! Let me/us know how it goes. BTW - is that your right (mouse) hand?
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03-11-2004, 12:19 AM
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Yeah it's my mouse hand. I can work the mouse since thumb & first finger are OK. Typing with my left sucks though.
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03-11-2004, 12:20 AM
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OHH man that sucks!! That must hurt like a son of a gun! Hope they heal quick!
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03-11-2004, 12:21 AM
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Uhmmmm, did this happen @ the new job??? If so, that can't be good. Looks like it hurt too.....
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03-11-2004, 12:23 AM
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03-11-2004, 12:34 AM
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Ouch. Not a good way to start the new job.
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03-11-2004, 12:43 AM
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I'm only had one break in my life and it wasn't complete, just a little crack mainly right about at my wrist, but they had me put in a cast all the way up past my elbow.
Needless to say I hated the cast where I could bend my arm (they were worried about the tendons in my arm because of how I broke it) I was out about a week later riding my dirt-bike and broke the cast They just had me wear one of those removeable braces after that.Looks like that hurts a lot, hopefully you won't ever make a mistake like that again. I hope I don't ever make such a mistake, but I play with tools that could seriously hurt me every day.
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03-11-2004, 12:51 AM
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OW....I hear you on the pain....been there done that....that seriously sucks...but like it was said above, be grateful you still have all 10 digits!!
Hope it heals soon!
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03-11-2004, 01:15 AM
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So what happened?? Did it kick back and take your hand with it? MIKE you might think thats bad luck but thank god it wasnt worse. You talk about serious hand/arm injuries in the same sentence as the word "saw" and it just gets ugly. Ill take a break or dislocation over a severed digit ANY DAY! and twice on sundays
 Do you still have this new job? mike |
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03-11-2004, 03:13 AM
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I know it don't seem like it now, but you were lucky. I had a buddy of mine do just the opposite a few years ago. Instead of kicking back it bogged, he pushed harder and it went on through. When every thing came out the other side, he was minus a thumb, and part of a finger. They tried to put it back on, but it wouldn't take.
Regardless you gotta be hurting bad. I'll pray for your hand to heal and the pain to go away.... 
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03-11-2004, 03:22 AM
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Glad you still have all your fingers Mike. Man that had to hurt and by looking at it I wouldn't want to have been there. We had a guy at work using a radial arm saw cut up his underside forearm one day. Almost cut it all the way through. Wasn't a pretty site but kept all his functions. He was lucky as well.
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03-11-2004, 05:22 AM
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Ouch, look on the bright side, you have all your fingers, and a new story to gross out your friends.
 I hope it starts to feel better.When I was in junior high, and dumber than I am now, I punched a locker. It some how pushed my knuckle back so far, it was touching my wrist. The worst part of it was, that the locker wasn't even dented.
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03-11-2004, 05:52 AM
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Aaaaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhhhhhmy hand hurts now damn you aaaaarggggggggghhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh
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03-11-2004, 08:43 AM
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I just sprained two fingers last week and thought that was bad.....
Get well soon.... Guess you won't be working on trucks for a while. Must be slow typing on the puter too...
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03-11-2004, 11:58 AM
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Damn, Mike and I was just about to send you an email to see how you would charge me to make me a center console like yours...lol I hope you get well soon and take it easy.....
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03-11-2004, 12:05 PM
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Hope everything is going OK....you got REAL lucky there, my dad wasn't so lucky just about 2 months ago...lost his right index finger and part of his ring finger.
He's been working around saws for 25 years and this was his first accident....but boy was it a doosie!!! Hope you get better soon....keep us up to date! |
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03-11-2004, 12:14 PM
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OUCH!!! I thought slamming a door on the fingers was bad.
Use some home BEvERage when you can relax. 
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03-11-2004, 12:22 PM
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DAMN!
That hurts just to look at! Wow guy I hop they got you some good stuff cause that's got to hurt! take it easy and enjoy a few days off.
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03-11-2004, 01:00 PM
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I was cutting a piece nylon that was about 1/2" thick by 5" wide by 14" long. I needed two pieces out of it 1-7/8" x 6-1/8". So it had a small burr on one corner to where it wouldn't fit the rip fence smoothly. I was going barely buzz this burr off like I have done many times. It caught it and slung it out into my fingers and then on past me into the garage door behind me. All three fingers were curved way over to the right when I looked at them.
Nylon is a hard plastic and the worst to cut of all. You have to use a course blade because it will melt back together and also tries to close back up. I have cut a million pieces of wood in my life, but cutting plastics is a different animal. We cut around 20 different kinds and 10 or 15 different colors. Some cuts like butter and some don't. The thickness ranges 1/32" to 4". Then we have rods and tubes too. Some of the rods go up to 10" in diameter. Thanks for the well wishes guys. I wanted to show everyone what can happen when you are stupid and make a stupid mistake. A table saw is one tool that you don't take for granted. On another note, it took me 20 minutes to hunt and peck this post with my left hand. Hunting for every letter sure takes care of spelling mistakes.
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03-11-2004, 01:16 PM
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I hear the trick to cutting plastic is to slow down the blade so it doesn't make as much heat. Not real easy to do on a table saw.
Yes you must have respect for a table saw. When I was in Highschool shop class a guy had a saw bind on a peice of 2x4 4ft long and launch it. Guy was thankfully standing to the side as you are supose to and nobody was behind him. The saw was about 10 ft from a concrete block wall. That 2x4 picked up enough speed to bust a concrete block.
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03-11-2004, 02:38 PM
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YIKES!!!! That looks Nasty!!!!
Glad to hear you didn't loose the finger - - that's the first thing I thought of when I read "table saw". On a lighter note... Maybe you coud add this x-ray to your avatar and we could call you... "Crank-finger" ? ? ? ? ? Just a thought   
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