Okay I am gullable. Did this really happen and you are really good at telling stories and computers. I wish I had half your talent...Smile Merry christmas Dweeb It is nice to see you back. I hope roger's thumb is okay that sucks....Barb

Dweeb
I agree with barb, did that really happen? if it did it's
horrible, hope his thumb is alright
Elizabeth

Yyyyyyyyyyyyep, it really REALLY did happen.

Nasty, wrong and really annoying. He is mad, NOT becaue he has injured himself, be because he has cut his WORK time down out there on the project.

Can you believe it?

He wanted to go out there on tuesday! (he did it on Monday)

I said "if you GO out there today, I'll stick your OTHER hand in the saw!"
He needs to HEAL, and he is going to be scheduled for a "resection" to rebuild his thumb.

Yes, it really did happen.

He's actually in pretty good spirits. Just mad at this "set back" in his schedule.

But he really is in good spirits. Smiles, laughs, gets tired alot from his Oxocodone. (Percoset), but he is ok.

You should hear HIS version of what happened.

According to HIM, I made his CAR fly. (grin)

I'll ask him when he wakes up if I can post "his" version of his HOLIDAY FESTIVITIES. (I sent that out to my group of friends earlier, and his sent HIS version out)

Just to let everyone know, ahhhhhhh, we aren't gonna be doing our Xmas usual route stopping by, and don't bet on us for New Years.

Oh, Lennette I'm so sorry to hear that. We worked on the greenhouse this afternoon and I was using the skill saw all afternoon. Glad I didn't cut anything off, lol. Merry Christmas to you both and I hope he heals up fast.

Those hospital people really come running when you come in with a body part in a bag, don't they? Went through the same thing when DS was almost 3 & his father shut the back door on it & cut off the end including the tip of his finger bone. I had missed the whole thing because I was at the store picking up last minute things for my DD's birthday party (along with the 6 friends who had stayed overnight). 3 year old twins & baby James were left with him so I could shop faster. I came home & (ex)DH said "John messed up his finger & I had a hard time getting it to stop bleeding." I pick up his hand to look & the first 3 fingers on his left hand are the same length. I told him the finger wasn't messed up, it was missing, where is it? I went all over the yard thinking there was glass or something sharp with all the kids & DH following me like a row of ducklings. Then we searched inside the house. All I could find was a trail of blood (lots of blood) from the back door to the bathroom sink. After a LOT of questions, I found out what happened: He had sent the twins outside to play & James was down for a nap. He didn't want the baby to wake up so he told them to stay out. John kept coming back in & had his hand on the doorjam when DH yelled at them & told them not to come in or he would spank them & then slammed the door. Poor little John stood there sucking his first finger (he didn't suck his thumb) with blood dripping all down the front of him onto the porch. He was not going back inside to be spanked. Jennifer went in (to DH in front of the TV) & told him John was crying & wanted to come in. It finally got his attention when she said he was bleeding & showed him her shirt. He said he panicked when he saw how much blood there was & ran through the house carrying John & yelling, "I don't know what to do! I don't know what to do!" with little Jennifer running behind him crying & saying "You don't know what to do! You don't know what to do!" He said he didn't know how to stop it & he tried putting a bandaid on it but it wouldn't stick (I guess not!). He ran it under cold water in the sink (like that's going to stop the blood) & then held an ice cube on the end. I guess that made it clot & he got the bandaid on. We found the fingertip on the third trip out the back door. I don't know how it didn't get stepped on by all those kids (or me). April's birthday party was canceled, all the kids were sent home & I put John in the back seat of the car & headed to the hospital. I could see him in the rear view mirror, sucking his finger, pale as milk & saying nothing. He didn't even cry, I think he was in shock. We got there around noon & didn't get out until almost 1 am. His surgery wasn't until 10 because there was a big wreck on the freeway & they said he wasn't a priority. $5000 & microsurgery (thank God we had insurance) to reattach the nerves. He's left handed or they said they would have just stitched it up & sent him home. The Dr gave him some really cool before & after pictures for show & tell. All he has to show for it is a curved fingernail & not too much memory of it.

Linda

Love those table saws. I came close once when I was distracted. Just a nick. Bad s_ _t seems to happen when my brain says I should not be doing this. Now I usually do not.

I am glad it ended on an upbeat. Great recount of the happening. LOL

Thanks,

Jim

Lenette knowing how great you are with rhymes...I just KNEW it was true. Even you telling the DS' story at parts just has to make you smile.
I hope that your DH will heal as well as the DS' did.
Just please do not ever invite me to your house. It sounds like it is a dangerous place to be hahahahahaha

have a SAFE day rofl

Lucy

UNFORTUNATELY, we did not bring his thumb in.

I told the doctor that, and she said, "the extent of this injury, the microsurgery would not have been guaranteed to work."

THEN she told us (wonderful SURGEON btw) I can't get an OR for 2 1/2 hours. We're going to do this RIGHT here.

I told them I should have ignored him and grabbed the tip, she said, AGAIN, it probably wouldn't have helped. But, GO HOME AND FIND IT, and throw it away before someone else finds it. It will freak them out.

She said even IF she could have reattached it, odds are, the nail bed would have died and he would STILL be in the same boat. He didn't hit the bone, and can still bend the top, so in effect, he lost the top with the nail. (still makes me green thinking about it.)

She will just "rebuild" it.

Roger, on that "twilight" medicine, said "Annette hon? I'm not sure I turned the saw off."

I just stood there (blink!)(blink!) "Ok hon." (JEEZUZMARYJOSEPH!)

I went and got his medicine, and while they were filling it, I went home, and sure enough, the door standing open, and the table saw standing there going WRRRRRRRHRRRRHRRRRHRRRHRHRRRRHRRRRR like a menacing machine waiting for the NEXT meal. . . .I used my FOOT and kicked the switch off. Found the thumb tip, and threw it away.

What a freaky nite. Gotta call the doctor's office today to get his resectioning scheduled.

Linda, oh man, your poor husband, running around like that. You're right, Roger said there wasn't any pain YET, until he was at the hospital. At home, when he looked in the sink thinking "oh man oh man, there is gonna be a ton of blood, and when he finally tried to peak, "Hey, there's no blood. . . . and. . . .HEY, THERE'S NO THUMB!"

Eeesh.

Merry Christmas.... Was working on my construction project and a funny thing happened yesterday,

Using the table saw with my usual caution, a piece of wood just cut flew backwards and pinged me in the stomach.

As i twisted to miss it, i forgot one thing. When you twist while cutting a board, your whole body twists with you. Here, strange things of magical proportion can then occur. Such as twisting to the left brings your right hand to the left, If the saw is running (which it was) your thumb can in deed disappear.

It's magic really.

Following this trait of new found magic I discovered, I then went on an incredible theme park like ride. Annette can make my car fly i learned and she gave me the most magical ride (quite exciting really) to a local theme park known as Silver Cross Hospital. We literally flew past no less than 4 policeman, who i assume could not believe their eyes because none of them followed us.

This flight (ride ended) upon arrival to the hospital.

Did you know, the first thing everyone asks you is, did you bring the other half of your thumb? I was thinking, know what? When half of your thumb disappears as mine did, the first thing I though of was not, "oh, it's gone, where must it be? Let me take a few minutes to find it."

Naaa, me? I was more interested in singing Ave Maria...or was it that other holy song i know (Oh Holy Sh*t).

At any rate, i met the most wonderful people at Silver Cross Theme park. I must have been having such a good time there that they kept me there far longer than I could take. I guess they felt I was having so much fun, so much actually, that they injected me several times with magical potions to make my stay even more fun. One of the magicians there, known as the hand Specialist practiced her cauterizing and sewing skills on me for over an hour. Annette thinks i was bored because i snored during this act of hers. Me, i think it was the magic potions causing my in and out trip to La-La Land that brought on the snoring.

Too bad too, because they tell me her act was very good. All in all, the 7 hours at the Silver Cross Theme park went by fast. Did you know that if you dream about La-La Land, you dream in color? Way cool... Annette sat right at my side the whole time. Apparently Annette really liked the Hand Specialist. I could tell because Annette kept playing peek-a-boo from behind the curtain with her, all during her act.

I got home around midnight,,,thank goodness they gave me take-home candy too. I take 2 tablets of this candy and I feel no pain. So it should be a good day, Apparently the Hand Specialist has a second act that i need to get scheduled today. Apparently there is a time limit for re-construction, so it's not over until it's over.,

Pills kicking in... back to sleep,,, thought I'd fill you in,

Think you had a bad day? (grin) My day only gets one thumbs up.

The Pharaohs were buried with their body parts. You could always save it in a jar of alcohol until the appropriate time ;-)

Linda

Dweeb, so sorry to hear of Rogers accident! Ouch!!! and
Linda wow! what a memory poor little fellow.

Karen

Annette, you tell one heck of a story! I sure hope Roger is feeling a little better now... Been through something similar myself years ago with my ex and the lost finger was in a grocery cart accident. Yes, that's right. Riding grocery carts through parking lots might look like lots of fun but it really can be very dangerous.

He did manage to pick up his finger and put it in the floorboard of the car... After my drive to the hospital (sounds a lot like yours) we forgot and left the finger in the car. The nurses at the emergency room gave me a piece of gauze and made me go back out and get it. I'm not real good with stuff like that and about passed out.

This was soooo long ago, but the way I remember it they did do a skin graft off the piece of finger. His was cut off at couple of joints down and bone and everything was gone.

I've decided that holidays will never be normal... This year we have an elderly sick kitty. Got her to the vet today, forked out $240 we don't have so they could tell us they don't know what's wrong with her...

I'd love to share a martini with you any time you're ready.

Sorry Michelle. I had hoped she would be feeling better. I think you need to find a new vet if its the same one as before. Lennette I hope Roger is doing ok. John laughed himself silly when he read Roger's version. The only experience he ever had with meds like that was after his colonoscopy. Now he wants one every month, lol. He was soooo funny sitting on the patio and telling me how much he loved the birds and the flowers and how we needed more flower beds. Anyone know where I can find some more demerol to give him, roflmao. Just kidding but it was funny.

Lenette I read that your husband has a sense of humor too. Good match. Exept you still got your 2 thumbs lol

Sorry.

Lucy

Annette, what fantastic writings as always! You should do that for $$. Sorry about Roger's accident and I hope he is mending quickly.