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August 23, 2005
Update on my hand
My hand is starting to heal, I'm now allowed to have the bandages off at home, and do all sorts of normal things with it. I still need to keep it covered at work, and I'm on restricted duty. I don't believe there will be any permanent damage to the hand beyond scarring, I'm able to almost close my fist up, but not tightly, it sort of feels like having writers cramp when it's closed. For all you "carnage junkies" here is a picture of it. For those of you who would rather not know, I'd recommend not looking, and for those who would rather not know, but can't help looking, it really looks worse than it is.
I've been working on a really good "war story" to tell in place of the standard "I got in a fight with a decoiler and lost", so far I'm thinking it needs to involve a very big, mean dog, and a poor defenseless baby kitty, but that's as far as I've gotten. There is something to getting hurt at work that's sort of like an initiation. All of a sudden everyone has to tell you their work injury stories, and it's like you've become a member of their secret society.
We had another, much more serious injury last night, one of they guys got his hand hung inside a press, and had to be taken by ambulance to Chattanooga, whether all his fingers will come back with him remains to be seen. (His accident could have been prevented at least three different ways, "Slow Down Snail" should take a day off from visiting local pre-schools and make a trip to our plant.) I think every press operator in the plant was thinking "that could have been me". All of a sudden my two bandaged fingers seemed so minor.
Posted by Anna at August 23, 2005 2:20 PM
Comments
Gosh, that doesn't look so bad! ;-)
Posted by: Dave Lemen at August 24, 2005 10:12 PM
Ouch! I did't know, having been out of the loop a few days. (Grandma Atha would tell you her Mother lost two fingers in a punch press. I remember Grandma Ruby vividly.) I'd best check in on you more often. Blessings!
Posted by: Leatha at August 26, 2005 9:46 PM