be careful guys

[joehalford01]

i never hurt myself doing anything cool

last night i was bored and wanted to finish pulling the motor in my truck but i couldn't get the engine crane around my corvette and i didn't want to move my vette until i got the brakes done. so i decided to take pics of some stuff i want to sell.......

i went in my shed and started pulling stuff out.....lost my balance....fell backwards....and impaled my right hand on the battery box from my truck which happened to be on the floor......

it cut right under my thumb all the way to the muscle. so i can use my fingers but i'm basically one handed until this heals. the worst part is that i yelled at the company i was buying my brakes from for the vette because they were taking forever. they are shipping them 2 day air so i can have them friday and install them this weekend. so much for that.......

anyways, just wanted to share and tell you guys to watch your step even if your not doing anything dangerous to begin with

(i'll post pics later of my stitches if you want-it was shooting blood and everything-the docter was making jokes about it looking like they slaughtered a cow in the er-gross!!!!!)

 

[motomech]

sorry to hear bout that..i never hurt my self doing anything cool either
(on the other hand) its good to hear that u got your brake problem figured out

and yes we need pictures

 

[Bonehead]

You never know what might happen. Sometimes what looks pretty easy turns into a nightmare. I have been hurt alot, mostly working, sometimes playing, but all of them were the kind of thing that nobody would have seen coming.
You know it could have been worse, Glad to see you pulled through.

 

[hotrodron]

Wow! Glad to hear you're ok. Sounds like it hurt. I've had some pretty bad injuries from dumb stuff like that too. Once I was standing on the front bucket of a front end loader holding a tree we were gonna plant in my front yard. Well the guy driving the loader hit a bump in the ground and knocked me out of it. He couldn't stop in time and ran right up my leg. Long story short, it snapped my shin bone in half like a toothpick! Weirdest part was how loud it was. Sounded like a baseball player when he breaks his bat on a fastball.

 

[joehalford01]

Wow! Glad to hear you're ok. Sounds like it hurt. I've had some pretty bad injuries from dumb stuff like that too. Once I was standing on the front bucket of a front end loader holding a tree we were gonna plant in my front yard. Well the guy driving the loader hit a bump in the ground and knocked me out of it. He couldn't stop in time and ran right up my leg. Long story short, it snapped my shin bone in half like a toothpick! Weirdest part was how loud it was. Sounded like a baseball player when he breaks his bat on a fastball.

YIKES. this was more of one of those things where my wife and i are looking at it and trying to decide if i should go to the hospital or not. of course, it's always hard to believe it just happened when it does. haha we couldn't stop laughing when it squirted blood, looked like something out of a cheesy horror movie.

 

[oldmule]

5 letters
AFLAC

I had a ex-bud build a lot of his rock crawler on AFLAC money. He got $275 just for dropping/impaling his Gerber knife into his leg while driving...... 2 stitches and a little paperwork.

Sucks to do it even if it was cool moves.....

I hope there is no nerve damage.

 

[gassersgarage]

This reminds me of when I was a kid. My Dad had a 49' Ford 2 dr sedan. He jacked up the front end to adjust the brakes. We didn't have chock blocks so my Dad had me use my legs, pressed against the bumper and my hands braced against the ground. I was 11 years old.

As I braced my hands on the ground, a piece of glass slit the palm of my right hand. I got up and saw blood dripping from my hand. I started to go into the house when my Dad said, "Where do you think you are going?". I showed him my hand and he said, "What are you, a girl? Get back here and finish what you're doing!".

After he finished adjusting the brakes, he took me to the bathroom and held my hand over the sink. He got out a bottle of iodine and said, "Only girls cry, you'd better not cry!". They he poured the bottle of iodine over my hand.

Jeez, he was a tuff old coot!!!

 

[roddguy]

.
You know it could have been worse, Glad to see you pulled through.[/QUOTE]

Yeah, It could be worse........ It could be me! Sorry I just couldn't help myself.

I had a stupid thing happen to me when I was a kid. I was helping my dad build a stone retaining wall. I think I was 14. Now I was a really strong kid at the time because I had just spent 2 yrs on cruches. My arms were like thigh muscles. lol. Anyway, my job was to mix the cement. I was getting pretty board with this so I started making a game out of it. long story a little shorter, I missed with a shovel full of sand and went right passed the machine. As I did so my left hand (with a glove on) just caught the outside of the drive gear. I acted immediatly and grabed the rim of the drum, and was able to stop it. The mixer only had a 1/4 horse electric motor on it. I tried to roll it back but, but only managed the move it a couple inches. The motor was still on and I was starting to loss strength. I figured it was now or never, so I pull my hand out of the glove. I let go of the mixer, and the glove proceded on throught the gears. When I looked at my hand all I could see was blood on my baby finger, and the finge nail on the wrong side. By this time dad had noticed the commotion and came running. Saw the finger, and rushed me to the hospital. It looked bad, but in the end it was just the skin that had be turned around like a thimbol on your finger. To this day the nail on that finger is smaller than the one on my right hand.

 

[gassersgarage]

Ouch!!!!!!!!!

 

[liv'n'67]

no pics?

 

[joehalford01]

thanks guys, i don't feel so bad now ,
i was going to take pics last night but i couldn't find the camera, by the time i take pics it'll be almost healed and i'll be known as the forum cry-baby

i'll ask my wife where the camera is tonight. on the plus side i took all week off from my night job becuase of it. i've been needing some r&r- maybe that was gods way of telling me......

 

[joehalford01]

mmmmmm....chicken....looks a lot better then it did

 

[Reason 4]

Ok y'all, here's one for ya.
Flat was at work today trying to cut a zip tie from around some wires with his lock blade knife (with a 1/2 smooth blade and 1/2 saw blade no less) and it slipped and cut his right index finger at the middle knuckle down to the bone! Of course it was the saw part of the blade that bit and slipped at an odd angle as it was cutting!
1st mistake he made was calling me on his way to the ER and saying...."Honey, what ever you do, do not worry and do not leave work, I am fine, but...." OK....wrong thing to say to your wife! He gets to the ER and shortly there after I get there too around 11am, they finally call him back for a Doc to check it out and guess what....they want us to go across town to have an Ortho Doc sew it up, we get there and that Doc says.....Well, you've cut the tendon, thats why you can't move your finger, you need to go to the hospital at 7 am to have surgery!....SURGERY! I will tell y'all right now....when he does something, he's gonna do it big time (if y'all haven't figured that out yet). So, we will be arriving at the Hospital between 6:30 & 7am and hopefully it will not be too long after that he will get his finger sewn back together. I hope there is not any other damage found once they get in there and look around.
Yes I have gross pics to show, they are not very good because his meds have kicked in and he was not standing under the light being still so they are blurry, couldn't get more cause it started bleeding and we had to get it bandaged back up. You can't tell in the pic but if he bends his finger, you can actually see the bone....YUK!
I will try to post an update when we get home from surgery, but will have to go to my daughter's volleyball tournament also, hopefully we will be home in plenty of time to rest before having to leave for that. But I will post an update as soon as I possibly can. Y'all be patient with him and his posts....may be alot of mistakes due to one finger not in use...LOL

 

[Bonehead]

You guys don't even want to get me started with scars, but the last ones I got are the worst, and I paid some guy to cut me open. 6 inch scar in the back, and its twin on my belly. All the other scars pale in comparison.

 

[RU-LDS-2]

Ouch !

Thats nothing, I got a mustache hair caught in the pull tab on a can of beer once, man, that will bring a tear to your eye! Men will never know the pain of childbirth, but thats one pain a woman will never know!
Course, that's before I joined the Church!

 

[BIGGLES!]

seeing red!

Seeing as we are sharing silly bugger moments...

I was lying on my back tightening a nut with a ring/open end spanner (ring on the nut) and it slipped the open end caught me right between the eyes i swore (of course) shook my head and carried on, then i thought my vision was bluring and tinted red i crawled out from under the car and walked back to the house were the wife screamed and did the panic thing - I had given myself a damn good cut and the blood had run into my eye sockets and when i stood up it all ran down my face! making it look far worse than it was...upshot is I still have a scar and mrs check on me every so often just in case...

 

[joehalford01]

YIKES FLAT! You just had to one up me didn't you!

 

[FlatBroke]

I guess so joe,
What the pics don't show is the bone i cut into.
I got a 1/2 cast on my right arm up to my elbow almost. Needless to say, I will now carry a pair of side cutters in my pocket from now on.

 

[RUSTY50F1]

I'm self-employed to start with. Ins. rates already SKY high. Back in 95 I was working on a two story building on a ladder 18 ft high putting on trim. I ran out of nails in the gun so (dumba$$) me I stuck the framing gun in the top run of the ladder and went down to get some more nails. About the time I reached the bottom of the ladder I heard the nail gun sliding down the ladder. It cut my trigger finger 3/4 off at the middle joint. Ouch now that hurt. Looked like a red fountain. I looked at it and closed the cut and It stopped bleeding as long as I kept it closed. so I told buddies wife to go get me a popcycle and a roll of white tape and some supperglue. I taped the stick under my finger so my finger was flat and poured the supperglue over the top of the cut. But don't ever let anyone tell you that supperglue doesn't BURN. And went back to work VERY CAREFULLY. I worked It don't bend as much as it did but it still works fine.

 

[Bonehead]

ok, you win.