I'm a complete IDIOT

[OldSmoke]

As a major user of power tools, this kind of thing scares the heck out of me. Thanks.

I hope your healing goes smoothly and you have good support from your family and friends.

 

[SecondHandSmoker]

That's a nasty one for sure. Hoping for the best for you.

 

[OldSmoke]

As a major user of power tools, this kind of thing scares the heck out of me. Thanks.

I hope your healing goes smoothly and you have good support from your family and friends.

 

[Fueling Around]

I've seen worse. Does that make you feel better?
Truck driving without a right hand starts with trying to climb into the cab. Yeah, I drive trucks from spring to fall on the farm. Is truck an auto or a stick?
.
I'm left handed. I broke my left hand over 30 years ago. I adjusted to eating, writing, and dressing easily as I wasn't so left side dependent on those skills.
I never adjusted to wiping with the right hand. I have tried a number of times over the years and it isn't going to be an ambi thing

God speed on your recovery

 

[Brokenhandle]

Best wishes for your healing Gary! Thankfully you still have your hand and fingers! Hopefully we all take heed and pay a little closer attention to our safety! My wife has a cousin that lost both hands in a farming accident. He actually had to drive the tractor and corn picker home after losing both hands. But he also drove semi for the local elevator delivering feed. Has a hook on one hand and prosthetic on the other... coop had a semi tractor designed do he could continue to drive. I can't even imagine what that's like.

Ryan

 

[jcam222]

Man that’s tough! Glad it wasn’t even worse though. Hope things heal up ok for you

 

[sawhorseray]

Ah Jesus Gary, I hate reading and seeing this. I was a union carpenter for 34 years, used a skilsaw dammed near every day. Cut the very tip off my right middle finger two years in being a dope, learned my lesson. Praying for your full and speedy recovery. It happens in the blink of an eye, I saw a couple guys cut their hand just about in half. Take care of yourself amigo! RAY

 

[noboundaries]

WOW! Now THAT'S an oweee! Heal fast and let's all pray No nerve damage.​

 

[daveomak]

Gary, hope you get close to 100% back... Dave ..

 

[DRKsmoking]

Wow Gary
That really sucks, like you and others said, You/we know better but we still do things that we know better.
That is a real bad rip not cut. That normally happens late on a Friday afternoon when everyone is rushed to finish for the weekend.

Hope for a fast and good recovery. Good luck with the finger also

David

 

[smokerjim]

Ouch! Hope ya have a full recovery Gary

 

[crazymoon]

GH, Hopes for a FULL recovery on your hand !

 

[texomakid]

Ugh!

 

[kawboy]

Damn! That just made my neck scar hurt!

 

[motocrash]

Damn, horrific injury. Hoping for your full recovery and Southpaw dexterity especially when wiping.

 

[SmokinAl]

Good Lord Gary, you sure have to be in a lot of pain.
Hope you heal quick!
I blasted my leg with a 4500 PSI pressure cleaner with a zero tip many years ago. Couldn’t put stitches in it because there was no skin to stitch. Took a year & a half to heal.
Like I said I sure hope you heal quick!!!
Al

 

[tallbm]

Well like the man said "Stupid is as stupid does".

I just pretty much wrecked my right hand--and of course I'm right handed. No excuse, 'cause I know better. I was using my skill saw to cut some pieces of 1x4 wood into 1 1/2" strips to use as shims on our freshly cut Christmas tree (the trunk was too small to lock into place in the stand), and holding the wood in my right hand while I sawed it. Done it hundreds of times. But this time, yep you guessed it, the wood suddenly kicked back. It removed a lot of meat from my thumb across the palm to my little finger. Miss Linda drove me into our local emergency and the doc put in 26 stitches to stop the bleeding. Then an ambulance ride to the big city hospital in Red Deer to see what they could save. Well, it turns out, the wood literally tore its way through the 2 tendons, nerves, and all the blood vessels in the first finger (next to the thumb) and through 90% of the 2 tendons in the next finger.

The surgeon--Red Deer's top Plastic Surgeon--is pretty sure she successfully repaired the damage to the tendons, but the blood vessels are another matter. Turns out they're the size of the finest hair on the body. How the hell do you repair something that tiny?? So only time will tell if she was successful or if that finger has to come off. Now that's no big deal--don't really care as I can work around that. But, for the next 2 months, I can't use the hand FOR ANYTHING. And I'm just a couple of days away from the start of my Winter Log Haul.

I'm going to lose at least 2 months of high dollar work. So you can guess just how PO'd I am. And it was my own stupidity for doing something that I knew had the potential to turn out bad.

Anyway, it took me half an hour to one finger type this with my left hand. I'll still be reading all your posts, but........probably not posting for at least 2 months.

As a warning not to do this, I've included a pic of the hand Miss Linda took. It's just a tad ugly so i put in as a thumbnail. Open it or not, your choice.

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Gary

Damn, Im sorry to hear this man.
I don't use my phone for SMF but if you did you could maybe use a voice-to-text type feature and speak out all of your words rather than type them here. This may keep you connected but still is just a work around.

I hope all of the surgery and healing goes well and as quickly as possible. You have my thoughts and prayers for that hand of yours :)

 

[xray]

Damn Gary that looks bad, here’s hoping for a full and speedy recovery.

 

[normanaj]

Holy crap!

And I thought hitting my left pinky finger with a sawzall was bad.

Hoping for the best outcome Gary.

 

[GaryHibbert]

Thanks everybody for all the kind words. I'm slowly starting to gain some ability using my left hand. But....I gotta admit that when it comes to using a fork, my almost 4 year old grandson is actually better at getting food from the plate into the mouth. LOL!!!!
Gary