My recent owwies....

[Huntsman22]

Since we don't have a general BS forum, and first aid was involved, I figgered to post here. 2 weeks ago I shot a nail thru my thumb at work. Pulled it and never missed a beat. No doctors was involved......

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Then today I was headed for the kitchen(in the dark) to get breakfast and pack a lunch. Tripped over a throw rug and went headfirst thru a glass coffee table. Wringed out a wrist, wrenched my neck, bruised my cheek and got a few minor cuts and scrapes. Had to drive to Parker to the emergency room and git my chinny-chin-chin sewed up.......
Before stitches......I sugared the nurse into snapping a pic before she opened it up to scrub it out.

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After the doc was thru.......Did he do good?.....

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[singleshot]

owwie, That makes my thumb hurt.
You better stay away from the saw.
Take it easy Buddy.

[FlatbowMB]

Air tools, plate glass, chainsaws & gasoline are the 4 things I'd don't like to play around with when I've been drinking.

[Montanapete1]

Huntsman,

Tell me one thing, what made you think to grab the camera after the nail went in? Glad your OK!

Ps- remember bad things happen in 3's!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Make the last one a band-aid.

[one-eyed Bob]

I've had a few patients like this. One nailed his foot to the floor. They brought him in with flooring cut out all around his boot. We found a bolt cutter and pulled it out, what else can you do? I've also had a guy pound a steak knife into this forehead, but that is another story...

[Huntsman22]

Well, let's hear it......

[medicjim]

Two bits of advice...

1- Never rest a framing nailer on your knee while up 30 ft on a ladder

2- never rest a circular saw on your lap while the blade is still sprinning until you are absolutely sure the guard has moved into place.

[Huntsman22]

I'll try to remember that advice if I ever have a nailer without a belt hook.... Why would anyone put a saw in their lap? By the way, what is a guard?......

[medicjim]

By the way, what is a guard?......

That's the thing that prevents you from opening both inner thighs and separating your penis from your body at it's base. You must have some old tools if you have a circular saw without a guard

[David in OR]

That's the thing that prevents you from opening both inner thighs and separating your penis from your body at it's base.

Natural selection at its most direct.

[one-eyed Bob]

I saw my depressed patient in the ER. He was suicidal and thought if he drove a steak knife into his head he would die. He put it in the middle of his forehead. Only the handle was sticking out; you could hang your binoculars on it I guess, it looked handy. After studying him we pulled it out and put 2 sutures in the skin. He largely cured his depression by doing a sort of pre-frontal lobotomy on himself. This was before the one who shot himself in the ER.

[Montanapete1]

Natural selection at its most direct.

LMAO!!!!!!!!!! That was good.

[Huntsman22]

That's the thing that prevents you from opening both inner thighs and separating your penis from your body at it's base. You must have some old tools if you have a circular saw without a guard

Please tell me, medicjim, that THIS wasn't you........

Nah, my saws are all modern. I remove the pesky, hard to work with, and see thru, deals right outta the box. Gotta remember, I'm a perfeshional<grin>.....

[medicjim]

nope, wasn't me. 20 years of EMS, you get to see the outcome of some brilliant folks

[Ralph]

When my sister-in-law was fresh out of nursing school she worked in the Belleview (NYC) ER. A guy walked in with an ice pick in his heart, having taken the bus to the ER. His hand slipped while he was chopping ice. Fortunately, he had the presence of mind not to pull it out. (This scene was used in one of the doctor movies which was why Hesh told us about it.) The smooth metal sealed the hole and the heart beat right around it. It was removed without incident and the guy went back home (by bus) the next day. Odd things do happen and in NYC the Belleview ER gets a lot of them.

[FlatbowMB]

I saw my depressed patient in the ER. He was suicidal and thought if he drove a steak knife into his head he would die. He put it in the middle of his forehead. Only the handle was sticking out; you could hang your binoculars on it I guess, it looked handy. After studying him we pulled it out and put 2 sutures in the skin. He largely cured his depression by doing a sort of pre-frontal lobotomy on himself. This was before the one who shot himself in the ER.

Did the local mental health center run out of steak knives?

[David in OR]

Friend of mine who was an ER nurse had a drunk transient brought in with the shaft of an arrow sticking out of one eye socket. The pointy end was lodged in the back of his skull. The patient was wheeled in complaining loudly, "Pull it out! Just pull it out!" Before the docs decided what to do about it, my friend looked the guy in the (other) eye and said, "What were you thinking?" Turns out it was a friendly William Tell routine gone slightly wrong: it was the beer can on his head that was the target. Docs cut off the long end, drilled a hole for the point and pushed it through. Except for the loss of binocular vision, there were no discernible effects.

[Ralph]

Probably wasn't much inside the skull anyhow. Shine a light into one ear and a pornographic movie projects out the other.

[FlatbowMB]

That brings a whole new dimension to the classic Darwinian phrase; "Hold my beer, I wanna try something"

[David in OR]

I would've liked to have watched his buddies on the firing line when the arrow went through his brain. At least the bonds of friendship were sufficient to get the target stand to the ER. :)

[snakey2]

Ouch! Huntsman it is obvious from the pictures that that kind of stuff just keeps making you better and better looking. If you keep it up pretty soon you'll have a lot of young ladies after you. Remember, just restrict it to non-lethal portions of the anatomy.