bendingunit23

The chop saw at work took a slice of skin off my left hand about the size or a quarter. The saw kicked a piece of aluminuim I was cutting into my palm at the base of my thumb. The guy on the saw next to me asked if I was OK as the noise and thump of the table made it apparent that something had happened. I said yes realizing that nothing was broken and I still had all my fingers, he got the profile shot of the flap of skin hanging off my hand. I'm not sure If I'm just becomming a pansy or that is was beacuse if was just a love nip by saw standards, but it really bothered me. I'm normally OK with my own blood, and this didn't really bleed. I had to go lie down on the floor in the room the time clock is in for like 20 minutes. I was getting close to passing out when I was standing up at the first aid cabinet. I think some of it was the fact that the first aid guy had to cut the flap of skin off, I mean it's not hair or a toe nail or something, your not susposed to have to cut anything off the palm of your hand.

I got back to work after some lying and sitting, a couple of hours later the installer who had 14 stiches worth of glass shatter in his hands while he was moving it last week was getting cleaned up by the same first aid guy (it's a small shop so we only have the one, I'm also not using names on purpose). I turns out that he was asked how his hand was now that the stiches are out. he said fine, flexed his hand back to show that and squirted a stream of pus from his cut, uuhhhhggggg, keep you hand clean dude.

So I'm pouring the iodine and polysporan onto mine, and the kitchen table it turns out. I managed to clean that up at least.