Don't be stupid....learn from my mistakes!

[Don Frelier]

My follow up appointment was today. All is well, stitches will be removed next week.
Sort of a funny thing was discovered in the X ray....

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Looking closer.....

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I had a Doctor call me Friday to say that he saw this on the x ray and wondered if I could explain it. It is really thin and looked like a wire.
Car guys probably immediately know what it is....

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Oh yeah....The spinning wire wheel throws out wires when they break off and this one went deep enough to go unnoticed. No need to remove it but I wonder how it would affect an MRI ??

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Ohh, I thought maybe you had an ingrown pubic hair.

 

[eldubb440]

I had a pet scan a few years back........

the Dr asked me how long ago I broke my femur, what?

 

[Scott Engelhardt]

I would much rather get stitches then staples in my head again, they didn’t hurt but the sound of the staples going in was weird

 

[Kern Dog]

Somehow I have never had a head injury on the job despite conking my dome on numerous 2 x 4s.
We had a drunk guy on one job...he came back after a liquid lunch and got up on a second floor he was framing....then he lost balance and fell to his face. Numerous stitches and 1 surgery if I recall. He fell again another time and was fired immediately. Same reason...he was a drunk.

 

[Scott Engelhardt]

All this talk about stitches, I guess my princess slipped and hit her head today and had to get some. Her mom works at oral surgery so the surgeon there stitched her up. That guy does good work.

 

[dadsbee]

I would much rather get stitches then staples in my head again, they didn’t hurt but the sound of the staples going in was weird

If our daughter was here.. she said "cry me a river". Just a prospective.. no ill will intended! My best friend and Doctor pulling them out here at home.. ear to ear. Failing memory tells me 77 staples..

 

[Kern Dog]

Such a sweet soul.
You're making me misty, dude...stop that.

 

[dadsbee]

Just one of those nights and like I said no ill will to anyone. Jen said it never hurt going in or out... how I have no F'n idea. I get one damn pimple in my scalp and it hurts like a bitch! LOL

Been a long week and longer day... home insurance companies trying to extort me for $16K a year vs $3850 last year. Uninsured as of midnight... all these high profile aholes dying in their private jets, nobody wants to insure a property with an airstrip.... after 30+ years of no claims.

 

[Scott Engelhardt]

I wish no child ever had to go through that.

 

[dadsbee]

Sorry guys... I was pretty deep in the sauce last night after deciding to tell insurance folks to shove it. Jen had that done twice on her head.... and previously 179 staples when they took her right hip out. All smiles.. never complained.

 

[whitechargernow]

36 years in construction building houses, apartments, shopping centers, schools, all sorts of wood frame projects and I never had a serious injury.

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Sure, there have been a few ladder falls, lots of splinters, I've smashed my fingers numerous times and had lots of cuts and scrapes but nothing even remotely life threatening. I've operated numerous power tools and never once had a serious injury. I've heard of guys cutting their hands with circular saws, knocking themselves out when operating a drill that gets stuck, causing the body of the drill to spin and smack them in the face. All of us in the trades have slipped off of a ladder or fell on our asses in the mud. That is part and parcel of the job....we are out there getting stuff done and no matter how safe you are, some things still happen.
For me, I had to retire to actually hurt myself.
Yesterday, I was doing something as simple as putting tools away while swapping a dishwasher here at home. I carried a few things including this angle grinder....

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....when somehow I lost my grip on it, tried to grab it.....then must have pressed the trigger and cut my left bicep pretty deep. I had the wife rush me to the hospital. I was worried that I'd bleed out and die, I did not know how deep the cut was or how bad, I just wrapped a towel around it and called out to her and off we went. 6 1/2 hours later....

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I was extremely lucky, I only cut tissue and somehow missed muscle, tendon and arteries. I am extremely grateful and have nobody to blame but myself, but....
This grinder....

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Did originally come with a guard that would have prevented the cutting disc from touching me. Here is the way it looks when new:

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The black steel guard would have hit my arm and probably prevented this. I looked a bit closer at the grinder today and while removing the guard never resulted in an injury while using the tool, it did when I tried to grab it from falling to the floor. Why is that?
Look at the way the trigger is positioned.

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Almost all of the front face of it is trigger, to grab it, your fingers are likely to squeeze and start the wheel spinning. To add, the safety lock seen here...

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Broke on this one and now it just lays like this:

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This allows it to start just by pressing the black section. That is fine if and when you're ready for it to start which I always was until yesterday. I just wanted to warn others of this issue. I don't blame the manufacturer for ME removing the guard. I am completely responsible for that.
However....
It did not help that the trigger is so easy to engage. I got lazy and did not act with caution. This will not happen again.
Be aware of the risks when using these power tools.

Wow. Glad you didn't hurt yourself worse. Get well.

 

[68 Sport Satellite]

Man KD, glad you're ok. Good thing Mary was there to drive you.
Thanks for sharing the bad and the ugly along with the good. Heal up quick brother!

 

[68 Sport Satellite]

Good thing you’re ok…that’s a big gash. I have a scar on my finger where my hand slid down a grinder and into the cutting wheel (where the guard was supposed to be). I was finishing up a job and making a few last passes to smooth burrs when my glove slipped and viola I had a divot taken out of my finger. Not nearly as big of a cut and the heat from the disk cauterized it, no blood.

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My rule is always - No Gloves (or rings) whatsoever when operating something motorized that spins - that goes for grinding wheels, cutting wheels, wood chippers, lathes, CNC's. My close buddy was pushing branches into a wood chipper and a branch short nub off of the main branch caught his ring on his finger and started to pull his arm in! Somehow he stripped his finger from the ring and saved his hand and arm.

It's not easy to free your hand from a glove or a ring once the spinning part of the equipment grabs and twists and wraps it up and tries to pull you with it!

 

[Richard Cranium]

I get one damn pimple in my scalp and it hurts like a bitch! LOL

What scalp?