Home Accidents are not good for gaming

[Monica Lewinsky]

I am So ................. pissed off at me!

Old age is a ... BITCH. Avoid it!

so it is Monday and it is time for work. Went and did my 8:30 am and 11:00 appointments Today. At noon, Saw my 1:30 pm and 4:00 pm appointments on the Calendar on paper notes ... and said to self ........ go home, make lunch there - take a break - and maybe catch some afternoon delight! :wink:

It will be CHEAPER then eating out, you will eat healthy since you don't consume that McDonald's or Burger King Fecal matter crap. Ya go home ... big fxcking mistake.

Side note: I am left handed.

So ... I fire up lunch in our Microwave - left over pizza pickup - yum, yum!
While the pizza gets nuked in said micro oven, walk over to the sink, and say: "You PIG, clean this crap up!"

Did so, but.......... Washed out a glass - big mistake.

BOOM, Crash, Glass breaking everywhere.

I cut my left thumb from the tip of said thumb down to the wrist a gash about 1/8" wide with the glass breaking. All skin removed, ie. GONE.

Rushed to the paper towels, applied home tourniquet. Debated calling 9-1-1. Nah ... sissy wimpy B.s. thing to do. Reached in right pocket for truck keys - almost passed out. Found a 3 inch by 1 inch sheet of glass jabbed into my right index finger on the OTHER hand... I was in deep doo-doo I said to self.

Drove to the fire station a quarter of a mile away from our house by myself. They look [paramedics - and patch me up because I REFUSE to go in an ambulance - stubborn pride by me].


Go to the hospital, check myself in, and I end up - SCREWED. I cannot drive home!

Both hands taped up, stitched up, and I made the FATAL mistake of calling the spouse and said "Can you help me?" over a fxcking glass I broke in the sink?

Current status:
Can use the four fingers on the left hand - Thumb is a gonner for a few days. Right hand - thumb OK, Right index finger and the middle finger is a gonner for 2-4 days from glass cut and stitches.


Two things learned:
#1. Don't call the spouse
#2. Picking my nose will be difficult for a week. :P

Worst part ... Playing SH4/Sh3 with that WONDERFUL GWX 2.1 mod ........ can't do it.

Pissed !

[CCIP]

Welcome to the club of my-left-appendage-is-broke (still can't move my elbow to less than 30 or more than 90 degrees and my physio is excrutiatingly painful)

That really sucks, watch for those things though! My brother actually did the exact same thing last year. Damn near took off his middle finger. My mom had managed to get him some sort of herbal stuff that made it heal very well afterward, not sure what it was.

Hope it's back to function soon. If it's a few days, then it shouldn't be too bad. Good luck

[Sailor Steve]

Man, I'm sorry to hear about that! I haven't had an incapacitating accident in a long time, but I remember what it's like.

The good news is, we're designed to be self-repairing, with some help of course. It'll get better, and you'll be playing again soon.

[Platapus]

Very sorry to hear about your injuries.

" I cut my left thumb from the tip of said thumb down to the wrist a gash about 1/8" wide with the glass breaking. All skin removed, ie. GONE."

How the hell did you do this with one drinking glass breaking????

Did you fall on it or something? I fell through a plate glass window and did not get hurt that badly?

I hope you get better.

Once you get better I will be happy to give you a smack upside the head for not calling 911. I used to ride on two squads and believe me, we made far worse calls than that. Having bad cuts on both your hands should mean you don't drive.

How would you have felt if you had gotten into an automobile accident because your bloody hands slipped at the wrong moment, or your attention was distracted by the pain?

Suppose you wiped out some mother and kids because you were doing the "manly" thing? Pride is one thing, but lets think with the brain and not the testicles next time OK?

Especially if the Fire Station is only 1/4 mile away. Shoot, the Paramedic could have ran to your house faster.

I hope you mend quickly.

And I would get different drinking glasses, yours sound too dangerous.

[HunterICX]

PAINFULL!
Gotta hate nasty cuts...

I can remember when I had a little scooter accident,
someone on the oposite direction passed the line of the road and hit me rear-break handle...which slammed onto my ringfinger which Broke and twisted at the same time AAAAAAAAUCH!!!!!!!! it hurted like hell but after a while the pain was gone....the next day the finger had the size of a big arse marker pen.

needed to get surgery to get it back in position and ofcrouse pinned down with 2 iron nails to keep it on its place....

HunterICX

[Kapitan_Phillips]

Did you badmouth Chuck Norris moments before this started?

[Monica Lewinsky]

Originally Posted by Platapus

How the hell did you do this with one drinking glass breaking????

Typed this using the only five fingers and a right thumb that were unaffected ... goes like this:

Kitchen sink is a double sink. As you face the sink, the dishwasher is to the left of the sink. So the house rules are to keep the dirty stuff on the right and the stuff washed off prior to going in the dishwasher to the left side. Was rinsing off "stuff". Picked up former glass - about 9-10 inches tall and about a inch and a half in diameter.

Memory recall goes like this - try to imagine this happening almost all at at once:
Glass was the third to the last item to get rinsed out. Rinsed it, turned it upside down, drained it, then the bad news - bumped the bottom of the glass on the divider that seperates the two sinks, breaks, and like a fool tried to catch the falling pieces as it happened.

When I got home hours later I looked at the "evidence". It broke it three sections, the bottom fell out in one piece. Glass broke lengthwise in two parts the height of the glass. No tiny chards ... just simply - three pieces.

Gave SH4 a try last night. Right hand is in much better shape and using the mouse and mouse wheel, clicking, etc. not a problem. Recently, I finally got through my thick skull how to do manual targeting. I use pen and paper to take notes for approach course calcuations and then work out the math with pen and paper for TDC entries later. Being left handed and through trial and error found I could put a pen between two fingers and draw notes. Looked at the notes later.

Had a good laugh - my paper notes look like a real bad Etch a Sketch! :p
http://www.etchy.org/

Somehow this reminds me of the Monty Python sketch of "No One Expects the Spanish Inquistion:

Originally Posted by Platapus

Once you get better I will be happy to give you a smack upside the head for not calling 911. I used to ride on two squads and believe me, we made far worse calls than that. Having bad cuts on both your hands should mean you don't drive.

How would you have felt if you had gotten into an automobile accident because your bloody hands slipped at the wrong moment, or your attention was distracted by the pain?

Suppose you wiped out some mother and kids because you were doing the "manly" thing? Pride is one thing, but lets think with the brain and not the testicles next time OK?

Especially if the Fire Station is only 1/4 mile away. Shoot, the Paramedic could have ran to your house faster.

I was a paid-on-call firefighter in the 1970's for about 7 years. I was fully aware of my limitations. I just needed someone to tape it up since I could not do it myself and was home alone --- that was my logic.

[Monica Lewinsky]

[quote=Monica Lewinsky]

Originally Posted by Platapus

How the hell did you do this with one drinking glass breaking????

Typed this using the only five fingers and a right thumb that were unaffected ... goes like this:

Kitchen sink is a double sink. As you face the sink, the dishwasher is to the left of the sink. So the house rules are to keep the dirty stuff on the right and the stuff washed off prior to going in the dishwasher to the left side. Was rinsing off "stuff". Picked up former glass - about 9-10 inches tall and about a inch and a half in diameter.

Memory recall goes like this - try to imagine this happening almost all at at once:
Glass was the third to the last item to get rinsed out. Rinsed it, turned it upside down, drained it, then the bad news - bumped the bottom of the glass on the divider that seperates the two sinks, breaks, and like a fool tried to catch the falling pieces as it happened.

When I got home hours later I looked at the "evidence". It broke it three sections, the bottom fell out in one piece. Glass broke lengthwise in two parts the height of the glass. No tiny chards ... just simply - three pieces.

Gave SH4 a try last night. Right hand is in much better shape and using the mouse and mouse wheel, clicking, etc. not a problem. Recently, I finally got through my thick skull how to do manual targeting. I use pen and paper to take notes for approach course calcuations and then work out the math with pen and paper for TDC entries later. Being left handed and through trial and error found I could put a pen between two fingers and draw notes. Looked at the notes later.

Had a good laugh - my paper notes look like a real bad Etch a Sketch! :p
http://www.etchy.org/

Somehow this reminds me of the Monty Python sketch of "No One Expects the Spanish Inquistion:

Originally Posted by Platapus

Once you get better I will be happy to give you a smack upside the head for not calling 911. I used to ride on two squads and believe me, we made far worse calls than that. Having bad cuts on both your hands should mean you don't drive.

How would you have felt if you had gotten into an automobile accident because your bloody hands slipped at the wrong moment, or your attention was distracted by the pain?

Suppose you wiped out some mother and kids because you were doing the "manly" thing? Pride is one thing, but lets think with the brain and not the testicles next time OK?

Especially if the Fire Station is only 1/4 mile away. Shoot, the Paramedic could have ran to your house faster.

I was a paid-on-call firefighter in the 1970's for about 7 years. I was fully aware of my limitations. I just needed someone to tape it up since I could not do it myself and was home alone --- that was my logic.

Originally Posted by Kapitan_Phillips

Did you badmouth Chuck Norris moments before this started?

No, but I was trying to think of the Dirty Harry movie where Clint Eastwood says:

"A Man has to Know His Limitations" .