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The router won!
To start off, I already had a "short" thumb with 1/2 inch removed some 32 years ago. Today, I was using a 30° chamfer bit trimming a very light edge on a 1 in by 1/2 in by 12 inch long support brace for a book case. I was not trying to make a full diagonal but 1/4 in high chamfer. I was pushing the small piece with my hand and pushing it firmly against the back fence. Well my thumb slipped off the end and into the rotating blade. It took about 1/4 in of the soft tip of the thumb. There is a piece of meat about 3/8 X 1/2 well into the flesh just gone.
A COMEDY of MISCOMMUNICATIONS:
I went to the local clinic of the (Toyota) hospital and they sent me to emergency room. The difficulties began when the nurse and doctor looked at the thumb and knew something was wrong other than the missing piece. I had to explain two different times to the nurse and doctor that the original short thumb happened 32 years ago - in a different accident.
The doctor examined and then said there was not enough (any) skin for stitches so I would have to go to a plastic surgeon in the morning. As he was setting up an appointment, I asked him to delay the appointment to mid morning at least.
I have an appointment at 8:30 AM for an injection in the knee at another hospital 30 miles away. The doctor just looked at me and kinda shook his head! He was already a little irritated with me as I kept telling him what to do - just wrap it good and put some non-stick bandage on the tip and give me a shot.
Well, he gave me an IV drip instead.
We also miscommunicated on another front. He had to document what happened so I told him. He asked me what a "router" was. I described it and so did LOML. It did not make sense to him - so he looked it up. Only he found "router" as in network routers, and asked how that could cut my thumb so bad!
And I know of another problem coming tomorrow. They (Japanese Doctors) like to check every day for a week in situations like this, and then depending, every 3 to 4 days. Well, I have a "Can't miss" organization meeting in Osaka on Thursday and Friday of this week. I don't know HOW this is going to work out. Either way, I am going to have some folks mad at me!
WORK DELAYED AGAIN
And today was the first good day since before my knee problems began that I could stand OK - and work OK, - and it wasn't raining - or I didn't have a dozen people or so to meet. I am working on some book cases that I started 3 years ago. Every 6 months or so - little by little I am building them - now delayed again!
When I got home from the hospital, I had an hour of daylight left. I put a rubber glove over my bandaged hand, got my hold down/push stick and finished that portion of the book cases. I had 4 of the support braces that are chamfered. I should have used that hold down push stick to begin with!
Life is interesting!
To start off, I already had a "short" thumb with 1/2 inch removed some 32 years ago. Today, I was using a 30° chamfer bit trimming a very light edge on a 1 in by 1/2 in by 12 inch long support brace for a book case. I was not trying to make a full diagonal but 1/4 in high chamfer. I was pushing the small piece with my hand and pushing it firmly against the back fence. Well my thumb slipped off the end and into the rotating blade. It took about 1/4 in of the soft tip of the thumb. There is a piece of meat about 3/8 X 1/2 well into the flesh just gone.
A COMEDY of MISCOMMUNICATIONS:
I went to the local clinic of the (Toyota) hospital and they sent me to emergency room. The difficulties began when the nurse and doctor looked at the thumb and knew something was wrong other than the missing piece. I had to explain two different times to the nurse and doctor that the original short thumb happened 32 years ago - in a different accident.
The doctor examined and then said there was not enough (any) skin for stitches so I would have to go to a plastic surgeon in the morning. As he was setting up an appointment, I asked him to delay the appointment to mid morning at least.
I have an appointment at 8:30 AM for an injection in the knee at another hospital 30 miles away. The doctor just looked at me and kinda shook his head! He was already a little irritated with me as I kept telling him what to do - just wrap it good and put some non-stick bandage on the tip and give me a shot.
Well, he gave me an IV drip instead.
We also miscommunicated on another front. He had to document what happened so I told him. He asked me what a "router" was. I described it and so did LOML. It did not make sense to him - so he looked it up. Only he found "router" as in network routers, and asked how that could cut my thumb so bad!
And I know of another problem coming tomorrow. They (Japanese Doctors) like to check every day for a week in situations like this, and then depending, every 3 to 4 days. Well, I have a "Can't miss" organization meeting in Osaka on Thursday and Friday of this week. I don't know HOW this is going to work out. Either way, I am going to have some folks mad at me!
WORK DELAYED AGAIN
And today was the first good day since before my knee problems began that I could stand OK - and work OK, - and it wasn't raining - or I didn't have a dozen people or so to meet. I am working on some book cases that I started 3 years ago. Every 6 months or so - little by little I am building them - now delayed again!
When I got home from the hospital, I had an hour of daylight left. I put a rubber glove over my bandaged hand, got my hold down/push stick and finished that portion of the book cases. I had 4 of the support braces that are chamfered. I should have used that hold down push stick to begin with!
Life is interesting!
