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Why is it?
NeoBlackdog
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That when you're doing something by yourself and you slice your thumb open it is always on your strong hand in the most obnoxious spot possible to try to put a bandage on it with your weak hand?
Was putting down some tack strips for carpeting and reached out to grab my strip cutters (without looking of course!) and opened my right thumb up pretty good on the strip cutter blade. Luckily it was a new blade so it made a nice clean cut.
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You'd think at your age, you would know better...
Yep always happens that way...
On the flip side, why is it when you do something REALLY cool it’s always when you’re alone and nobody can vouch for it?
You should pick up some “weak-hand” bandages.
Thats gonna be sore awhile
LOL! Yeah, you'd think so! How's that old song go? 'I'm old enough to know better, but still too young to care!'
It's not a very big cut, just kinda peeled the skin off to the inside of the thumbnail, all the way into the meat, though. Gonna take a while to heal.
That’s nothing, in college my buddy had a CJ2A flat fendered Jeep we called the Death Star and wanted to put a metal top on it. We set it in place and he went to class.
I started in drilling screw holes but the bit was dull so I was pushing hard. I was pressing hard with the other hand to hold the top in place, then the bit broke.
The half remaining in the chuck went right through my thumb and into the sheet metal and stopped. It was right about then I wished I had spent a little more and got the “reversing” drill.
Let me tell you right now no amount of fancy spinning your wrist to the left will back a drill bit out of metal. So I stood there until my buddy came back from class.
I've gotten bit by a bit more than once but never that bad! Ouch!
sorry to hear I hope for a fast healing for you
sadly over the years I have gained the ability to drive my self to the ER for stiches ( good thing being its never bad enough i I could not do it )
last trip about 2 years ago ran my thumb thru the table saw with out looking (like a dummy lost focus for a second or two ) I just picked up a rag wrapped up my hand and called my youngest son about a mile away and I knew he was home ..
I knew it was this is not going to be good moment for my hand and was not sure how bad it was
when he got here just a couple minutes later , I had taken a look for damage control , lucky I always keep the blade set and just barely cutting thru the wood maybe a 1/8 inch so it just peeled a few layers of skin down a neat little strip the width of the blade length wise on my left thumb . so I told my son i could go it alone , but he took me in any way . doc added in 4 stiches and sent me home . no pan meds WTH LOL ) so now just another scar added to my collection
Oh man that's the worst, when you "have to take a look" for the damage.
I stuck my finger in the spinning disc brake on my mtn bike and it whipped around to the caliper which acted like a guillotine, and zipped the end right off ... right through the bone pretty as you please. I felt the "bang" but there was no pain, and I quickly grabbed it with my other hand but I couldn't look. Then I tried "turning" it and the end turned but the finger didn't, and I knew I was toast. But I still couldn't look!