Tundras live: A Bunch of Idiots And A Bunch of BS- Resume discussion group

Know the feeling. I had hand surgery one time from almost cutting my thumb off and still have a few numb spots on my thumb. It’s weird though how your body adjust and you don’t really notice it anymore.

 

That's gnarly. Did you regain most of the range and strength?

 

That’s fucking wicked. From the pic looks like the thumb should have been taken off.

I’ll stop complaining about my lil boo boo do do

 

Sure did! I had to go to PT to get there but I’ve got 95% of the motion back and don’t realize anything difference on strength really.

 

Yeah I got pretty lucky. I learned to keep both hands on the skill saw the hard way.

 

Complain away! Hand injuries suck!

 

A good PT person is worth their weight. My buddy was told by his doc that he would be lucky if he regained 75% of the range in his pinky (he's missing half a joint). He's got almost all the range back. His PT is good, and he's stubborn.

 

Glad they took good care of her. Head wounds are always way bloody and usually appear worse than they are. I couldn't imagine having a daughter that age and seeing her bleeding like that ...

 

Indiana wasn't the breeder or anything, just the vendor we used to import... Way cheaper to pay them to operate as the middle man than it was to fly a few dudes to Europe to buy dogs

 

Yeah, that's definitely a good one... for me end of the thumb manipulation, dexterity and feeling isn't completely gone, but it's like my brain isn't communicating what I'm wanting it to do properly (at times).

This is weird though, the webbing area of my left hand (where all the dead tissue was removed) doesn't produce any moisture; so, I'm constantly putting lotion and hand creme in that area to keep it from cracking

 

My dad lost one and my uncle lost 2 finger tips both from skill saws

 

@Taco-Spike

Were not trying to mitigate your experience; just giving you something else to think about for a bit...

 

I cut my index finger to the bone with a box cutter and instantly couldn't move it, knew I was fucked. They said I completely severed the tendon and had to do surgery. They made an incision in my finger, and in the middle of my palm to pull the tendons together to fuse them. Although I did rehab, I didn't do it long enough to get complete movement of my finger, my fault. Don't be like me.

 

My dad just did this to his thumb... right at the base of his fingernail and he only had about 1/4" of flesh on the inside of the joint holding the tip of his thumb on. His story however is nowhere near as cool. He was doing epic battle with a folding hide-a-bed couch and left his thumb in the hinge. Definitely not pretty or fun, time will tell how much of his range of motion and feeling he gets back.

 

The same buddy that ran his hand through the tablesaw almost lost a fingertip in a wood chipper when it slammed a log he was chipping down on his fingers. He also has a cool scare on his side from tripping over a branch that kicked up while felling a tree and falling on his running chainsaw.

My advice..don't let your kids go into state park maintenance. It's dangerous.

 

Nasty injury!
I've got a box cutter story. I was a young and dumb electrician apprentice. Breaking down cardboard boxes and cutting towards myself, I buried a full blade a few inches above my knee.
Wrapped it up and went back to work, until I got light headed and I noticed my sock was soaked with blood. Not my best move!

 

You win quote of the evening.

 

Her sister took it worse than we did. She was sitting in the back seat holding the towel. All was good in the end.

 

This is the "always cut away from yourself" best advice you can give. When I cut my finger that bad, I had that great combination of feeling like passing out, and puking all at the same time.

 

Nothing this morning? Or is everyone trying to not follow all the gory bloody finger pics?

My brain is toast. Had a very long week and I finally cleared a bunch of projects so I’m struggling to pay attention today. Got a long 170 mile trip this afternoon with the trailer in tow thru some of the worst traffic in the state. Just want to get that started but gotta wait for school to get out.

 

I'm back at work, trying to find a little motivation but I'm coming up empty..

 

Hydrate and eat a burger; you'll be fine!!!!

 

Speaking of which, you haven't commented much on the new gig... howz that goin' for you so far????

 

This was sent to me today and made me laugh out loud. Thought I would share.

 

Back in my day we just called it an insult. Have we sissified it to “put down” now?

I will sit here chris-cross-applesauce why I wait.

 

I don't make the memes...I'm just the middle man.