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Ultradog MN

Ultradog MN

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- That bad things come in threes.
Three weeks ago I rolled my pickup but walked away from it.
This morning I was hammering on a cat's paw nail puller. Hammer glanced off a joist and redirected the blow into the back of my hand.
A 20 oz framing hammer isn't too forgiving.
You can tell there's something wrong when you can feel the bone crunching in there. Broke the bone that I showed in the picture.
Doc put a splint on it and will give me a cast in 2 weeks.
I asked him to wrap it good - give me a club at least. It's gonna slow me down I think. 6 weeks he said. Hoping I don't get neurotic wondering when the 3rd thing will happen.
Aarrrgh
Enough one handed typing for now.
PS any of you remember Al Capp?

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Bummer! Bout the same happened to me Monday night. The wind blew an aluminum trap door down on my hand while I was climbing the ladder to the shaker deck. I was lucky nothing got broke. The swelling is pretty much down now and the gash scabbed over.
I have one of those 22 Oz Estwings. Wouldn't trade it for any other hammer.
 
My right wrist shattered when I hit the cement from about 10' above. I was headed head first and must've throwed my hand up in front of my face at the last minute and got a tee plate and 11 screws holdin' it together. that was two yrs ago and it's still pretty stiff. I'm still payin' off the hospital and probably got another two yrs left payin' on it. "SH-- happens". bjr
 
May want to consider having both hands on the hammer from now on when using that poundy thing.

How soon can you get back in the ---swing --of things again?

A man can never tell how much pain he can stand till he sets out to find out.

Hope they give you enough pain pills to attatch you to the ceiling for a week or so. I'm a guessing you will know right where that hand is far a month or so.

Hope your luck changes for the better.
 
Could have been worse. I use a 22 ounce Plumb-the one with the meat cleaver type head on it. That one will take the top off your thumb with just a glancing blow.
 
You got off lucky!
A friend was standing on a ladder leaning against the edge of the barn roof, fixing the rain gutter. The ladder was quite long. suddenly, the ladder started sliding sideways on the gutter, and down he went, with a mighty crash~! Somehow, the fall and the ladder got his leg so bad, they had to take off his foot!
So, being that i lost my foot in WW II, they asked me to go out to cheer him up. I don't have any trouble doing anything i want to do.
So, i went to visit him. Got him feeling better when he saw i could do anything he had done before the accident.
So, almost a year later, and he's back to farm work! Has no problems getting on his JD tractors, or doing anything else. Walks good, and it is not obvious that his foot is made of metal!
Take care of yer hand and wrist and it'll heal up, and you will be back to work again! by:Rusty Jones
 
Sorry for your injury.I,as a carpenter have done the same scenario more than once I might add.Never broke anything tho.Take care.
 
Did my thumb with a 32 oz. plumb. That rhymes. Thought sure it was busted. Nurse X Rayed it. Asked me how bad it hurts. I said is it broke? She says no, but you got arthritis in every finger. Then they started hurting ever since. Wish she hadn't told me. Dave
 
Yes- I remember him, and Joe. "Met" another Green Beret through these boards last summer, actually met him over coffee last week near Rochester...used "Joe Bftsplk" to describe a demo guy I trained with years ago-(darn near blew us up!) had to explain who he was, since new friend was a good 20 years younger than me.
 
I'll bet one of those new hand-held hammering machines is a lot cheaper than a hospitol trip.
 
That sounds bad Ultradog, luky you did get your hand up if landed on your head it could have been life and death maybe.
Have seen some debate about health care on here. Just wanted to point out that if you had that accident in Canada you wouldnt have been paying 4 years or more for it. You also wouldn't have had to wait a year to get fixed up like some think. You would have been right into surgery.
My brother was playing baseball, ran to catch a fly ball, jumped, collided with another player, came down and broke his leg just above his ankle. Had it fixed right up, plates and screws. Had to go back a few years later when screws loosened off some. Never cost him a cent.
Sorry just had to point that out.
 
OUCH! You're gonna have to take it easy for a while. Hard to do much carpentering or mechanicing that way... Hope you're feeling better soon. (guess this explains why you haven't written much on the boards the last few days)
 
It looks to me that the ring finger of the hand is the one that is broken as well or instead of the one that is marked (since i can't see under the mark).
 
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