Believe it or not I got my bike back from the panel guy - pretty good job overall, and then during a father son bonding project the next day I had a mishap before I got to ride !!:bug:
Our chickens have started sitting again and I needed to make a new chicken box for the mothers. I could see a father / son project and asked my six year old boy if he wanted to help. We set it all up so that the bench was at his height, did some nailing and sawing and fixing to which the chickens would be proud (for chickens that is!).
My son was getting down off his box and steadied himself on the 10kg (20lb) vice that I use for welding stuff and pulled it down off the bench. I was about to move his box and the vice came down and crushed my thumb at the first knuckle ripping most of the thumbnail off the bed and out of the base.
As you can well imagine there were 2 quite upset people dancing around at this stage. I knew that it was pretty bad but as it was gushing red stuff everywhere it was hard to see exactly how bad.
I was more concerned for Matthew being so upset at hurting me!
I made it back to the house (100 metres) and washed the thumb where I almost blacked out . My goodness it was hurting at that stage. I phone the ambulance, the neighbour (who is a nurse) and my wife (who was an hour away) and then lay on the floor having a little rest after all of the excitement.
The neighbour was great, the ambos were fantastic and so funny!
The doctors xrayed the digit, removed the rest of the attached nail, stitched the gushy bits and told me that I was lucky as I had almost severed the end off. The tuft (end of the bone of the thumb) was detached but they didn't seem too worried about that.
Sooo, no thumb nail (for a while at least), no riding for a week or so or until I can get my glove back on. The chickens still need a home. My son, Matthew isn't permanent traumatised and still wants to finish the project when I feel better.
Really I was lucky that it didn't land on my hand as that would have caused some damage.
I need to find something to protect the sensitive end when I get the dressing off and it is healing, any ideas?? Leather condom or the like? :rocks:
