I waited until now to blog about it so I could include news of his condition. Other than losing an important piece of an important finger, he's fine physically. Mentally he is kicking himself for doing something he knew better than to do. I think it's a tossup, yeah he put his hand in there, but the actual accident was just that, an accident. Stuff happens! You just try to be somewhere else when it does. Sometimes you aren't!
He was pretty with it and actually assisted the EMTs in retrieving his finger piece from the mechanism. He also walked to the ambulance and climbed onto the gurney, then walked into the hospital under his own steam. He is just too big to pick up and carry!
They took him to the hospital Durham to see if they could reattach the finger, but no soap. The bone was too badly crushed. He was in surgery for about 2 hours. His wife, Mistletoe, is miffed at him for getting hurt and scaring the bejesus out of her. WonderMom is not happy that he didn't take better care of the nice fingers she made for him! AND HE CAN ONLY GIVE YOU A HIGH 4.5 WITH HIS RIGHT HAND! By the way, he is fairly ambidextrous, but he is mostly left-handed.
Anyhow, here are a couple of photos, taken by him on his cell phone in the Dr.'s office after the surgical bandages were removed and his splint and tension band (for the middle finger) were installed. If you're squeamish, stop here!
If you'd like to send him an e-mail to cheer him up or bawl him out, click here->Socket's email
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***** WARNING DISTURBING PHOTOS FOLLOW *****
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The splinted hand. The rubber band is to keep tension on the damaged tendon.
The missing finger before splinting!
You were warned!
1 comment:
Oh geeze, now he's lopsided and no I don't want him to get his other hand so he would be even.
Holly
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