Am I the only idiot who......?
07-08-2011, 12:02 PM
#33
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Location: Dillsburg, PA
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Oh no...I just stabbed myself with a pin going up under my fingernail and thought that hurt terribly. I can't imagine the pain in sewing through your finger.
I had an accident one time with a large paring knife cutting carrots for my grandaughter. Knife stuck and dumb me put my hand under it and pushed it right through the upper palm and of course severed a nerve. For that cut I ended up with several stitches and then had to have surgery. I was in a cast for 6 weeks...left hand thank God. But it was at Christmas and poor hubby had to do everything including making making big bows for the tree.
And a friend of hubby's asked to use his nail gun on a side job they were doing. Hubby warned him to be careful and he said he would. Well...next thing he hears is..."UHHHH OHHH can you come here a minute" He mangaged to nail 3 fingers together.
Oh and yes get a tetnus shot if you haven't had one in 10 years. Lucky for me I had just got a booster about 2 months before my knife incident.
I had an accident one time with a large paring knife cutting carrots for my grandaughter. Knife stuck and dumb me put my hand under it and pushed it right through the upper palm and of course severed a nerve. For that cut I ended up with several stitches and then had to have surgery. I was in a cast for 6 weeks...left hand thank God. But it was at Christmas and poor hubby had to do everything including making making big bows for the tree.
And a friend of hubby's asked to use his nail gun on a side job they were doing. Hubby warned him to be careful and he said he would. Well...next thing he hears is..."UHHHH OHHH can you come here a minute" He mangaged to nail 3 fingers together.
Oh and yes get a tetnus shot if you haven't had one in 10 years. Lucky for me I had just got a booster about 2 months before my knife incident.
07-08-2011, 12:09 PM
#34
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Location: Kentucky
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Haven't done it yet, but give me time. Many years ago I worked in a clinic where we did worker's comp for a uniform manufacturer. About once a month, we'd get someone in with a needle through their finger. Hope you heal up quickly!
07-08-2011, 02:06 PM
#35
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Thank you all for the kind words. I am proud to be a member of the "club of pain". I can now say that my new machine was initiated with "blood, sweat, and tears". And the shirt I was putting appliques on did not suffer at all.
07-08-2011, 04:40 PM
#37
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Location: howell, Mi
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That really hurts. I did something like that once, the good news is you usually only do it once (some take a little longer to learn). I have to second the advice to get a tetnus shot. Call your Dr. and go with his advice. A puncture wound like that may cause a change in the every 10 years rule.
Sue
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07-08-2011, 04:58 PM
#38
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This happened to one of the gals on our last retreat. She went to the ER to get the thing pulled out and a tetanus shot. She came back with some happy face stickers which we all stuck on our machine eye level above the needle area...just a reminder.
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