Tell us something.: You just slip out the back, Jack Make a new plan, Stan You don't need to be coy, Roy Just get yourself free Hop on the bus, Gus You don't need to discuss much Just drop off the key, Lee And get yourself free
Condolences, it's a b*gg*r but these things happen. I last did it with absent mindedly picking up a red hot pan, no playing for nearly 3 weeks while the finger tip blisters went through their life cycle. On the bright side you can probably lose quite a bit of finger and still move on to the piping grip!
And a tip (pardon the pun!) for knife-wielding musician types -- it takes practice, but you can stabilize a tomato or onion or even a head of lettuce with just your knuckles -- i.e., with your fingers curled into your palm, so no stray appendages project into the knife's path. I've done work for some internationally-known hand surgeons, and that's the method 5 out of 5 of those doctors recommend ....
Anyway, fast healing to you, chas. On the plus side -- any old fingerprint files are out of date
Deja Fu: The sense that somewhere, somehow, you've been kicked in the head exactly like this before.
Hey Chas,
Sorry you're in such a state! Check out this short story -- see if you could find someone else to donate the key ingredient for your next dinner party!
How's it looking now? My doctor uses superglue when she cuts her fingers, since she's not allowed to wear bandages in the examining room. Maybe you could reconstruct your fingertip and it'd be elastic enough to cover the hole.
Well after the cayenne pepper application (see Jared's board, can't discuss it here), I was able to play tonight. It's partly that the wound wasn't as bad as last time, but not entirely. I'm really pleased.
Cheers,
Charlie Whorfin Woods
"Our work puts heavy metal where it belongs -- as a music genre and not a pollutant in drinking water." -- Prof Ali Miserez.
candis bowen wrote:What I want to know for all you kitchen accidentees, did you eat the food?
Candi
Absolutely. Thing about an injury like this is, it doesn't start bleeding for several seconds. (There's something eldritch about the flat white patch of freshly exposed flesh before the blood starts flowing.) The little flap of skin is not hard to find and dispose of.
Charlie Whorfin Woods
"Our work puts heavy metal where it belongs -- as a music genre and not a pollutant in drinking water." -- Prof Ali Miserez.
I was thinking, after soundly smacking my thumb with a framing hammer yesterday, that I really should count my blessings. An aquaintance of mine has bad nerve damage in his hands from repeated freezing on Arctic treks. Because of the lack of sensation, he is on a first-name basis with the entire emergency room staff.
His last escapade was affixing himself to a wooden frame (he's a sign installer) while at the top of a tall ladder. He had fired the second spike through his palm before realising he was going to need a bit of help.
BTW, while I don't recommend it, injuring the left thumb is a great way to fix grip problems on flute. Another blessing, I guess.
So, I'm two years older and no smarter, or possibly at my age, two years stupider. I had a twofer this weekend.
The injury came when I was putting out some recycling. I had something like 3-4 bottles and a couple of cans, so I did what any stupid person would do and put my fingers in the mouths, including the mouths of the cans. I'm tossing them into the bin, and let out a scream heard by the neighbors as one can sliced well into my index finger. It bled like crazy, but it's a good clean cut, so is healing nicely.
The other one only involves beer. I say "only," but I take beer as seriously as Henke takes whisky. About three months ago, I was making a ginger wheat and had two packets of yeast in the fridge -- one Danish lager, the other Bavarian wheat. So I took out one of the packets, made a starter, and carefully labeled the jar I put it in as well as the one for future use, "Bavarian wheat." When I went to put the jar in the fridge, I noticed that the packet that was still in there said "Bavarian wheat." So I made a lager out of the ginger wheat beer. Just bottled it last week, so I don't know how it turned out yet. So yesterday I got out that jar that said "Bavarian wheat" on it. And made a raspberry wheat. And it still wasn't Bavarian wheat yeast. So I'm making a raspberry wheat lager. Should be interesting.
Edited to add my nomination for the "sufficiently motivated fool" award for today (and this is NOT me): The fire alarm in my building went off at about 3 today, and we were all evacuated. The fire department shows up and, about 15 minutes later, they emerge with the explanation. Evidently someone had hooked a garden hose up to the sprinkler system. This triggered a low pressure alarm, indicating that there was a malfunction in the sprinkler system, hence no protection against a fire, so the alarm went off. It would never occur to me to hook a hose up to the sprinkler system.
Charlie Whorfin Woods
"Our work puts heavy metal where it belongs -- as a music genre and not a pollutant in drinking water." -- Prof Ali Miserez.
chas wrote:It would never occur to me to hook a hose up to the sprinkler system.
That's what alpha and beta testers are for. For the stuff that no one in their right mind would ever think of doing. Which is, of course, exactly the first thing that someone does.
They can do some real damage.
