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Well I finally did it, cut my self carving,.... Santa. I knew at once this was not the normal stab... my stomach did a flip, flop, from past experience that means something bad, has happen to my body. I hit my thumb with the razor knife....take a deep breath and wait to see what damage is done? OK thats blood means the first aid kit which is next to my bench ....but I can not stop the bleeding....now I am angry. That means a trip to the stupid ER. wait this thumb is the one that almost got cut off,..( about 20 years ago from an art accident).... this could mean surgery again..... no way am I going through that trip again. One thing bad I about me, I come from a family in medicine and I do not like doctors much, especially the dumb ones. I go to the neighbor, he almost passes out from looking at blood cover bandages...I get the bleeding stop decide that I do not want the driver passing out cause he sees blood...so... I drive myself.... but first I have to go clean off the blood on santa. I call the ER that I am coming and I need stitches.....they said, "wait a second, I will have the nurse call you."... and I drive myself to ER. The nurse calls 15 minutes later....I am mad now... "I am dead," I told her, " I just bled to death!" and I hang up.
I know it is going to be one of those days, I am small frame woman, that looks like a whimp, so much so I am never taken seriously by most doctors. Because I am calm, quiet, and whimpy.." I need stitches." The RN and Doctor take a look and throw my hand in a soak bath and I sit there on the surgery table drawing santa,... doctor looks at my hand..., says its just a surface cut and the RN agrees. I am confused, and I do not understand how my stomach did a serious mistake...doc and nurse leave. In comes another doctor, ...she looks at my hand, and remarks that it is no surface wound!! and starts yelling at the nurse and the other doctor. I sit there drawing santa with a smile on my face.
The surgeon remarks there is a good chance I cut that nerve again,.... I said, "I have decided already no surgery. ... can you just sew me up so I can go home and finish santa? ... I do not care if the thumb just hangs... I will not go through surgery like that again." She laughed and I was happy,... she told off the doctor who was going to send me home with a surface cut....what idiots. What did I do? I peeled the thumb from the nail, all the way to the palm,down to the bone.
Came home and went back to carving as long as I do not use that thumb, ... I got permission from my surgeon...smile. Yea I know wear your gloves and put your carving in a vise....I know, took the glove off, to sand and decided to cut a few more slices.
it was only 1/1000 of a second....
and so that is life. Di
I know it is going to be one of those days, I am small frame woman, that looks like a whimp, so much so I am never taken seriously by most doctors. Because I am calm, quiet, and whimpy.." I need stitches." The RN and Doctor take a look and throw my hand in a soak bath and I sit there on the surgery table drawing santa,... doctor looks at my hand..., says its just a surface cut and the RN agrees. I am confused, and I do not understand how my stomach did a serious mistake...doc and nurse leave. In comes another doctor, ...she looks at my hand, and remarks that it is no surface wound!! and starts yelling at the nurse and the other doctor. I sit there drawing santa with a smile on my face.
The surgeon remarks there is a good chance I cut that nerve again,.... I said, "I have decided already no surgery. ... can you just sew me up so I can go home and finish santa? ... I do not care if the thumb just hangs... I will not go through surgery like that again." She laughed and I was happy,... she told off the doctor who was going to send me home with a surface cut....what idiots. What did I do? I peeled the thumb from the nail, all the way to the palm,down to the bone.
Came home and went back to carving as long as I do not use that thumb, ... I got permission from my surgeon...smile. Yea I know wear your gloves and put your carving in a vise....I know, took the glove off, to sand and decided to cut a few more slices.
it was only 1/1000 of a second....and so that is life. Di
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