For those that care....
A couple years ago I got ahold of some 100+ year old oak. It had been painted about 50 times but I brought it home and ran it threw the planer a few times and it turns out to be absolutely beautiful lumber. Anyway, I planed it all and it's been sitting on a rack in my garage waiting to be put to use one day. I finally decided to use it to reframe the windows on the inside of my house last week. Anyways all went well and I was working on the final window. I picked out a piece of lumber, cut it down to size, and starting running it through the table saw to rip the painted edges off. Part of the way through the board I felt something hit my leg, didn't think anything of it because it didn't really hurt. I finished ripping the board and was adjusting the rip fence to cut off the other side when I felt something running down my leg. I look down and see that my pants are turning red. So I run into the laundry room and drop my drawers and I have blood gushing out of my leg and I had no idea even what hit me. I grabbed some paper towels and put some pressure on it but the blood wasn't stopping. It's funny how when you injure yourself it doesn't hurt as much until you actually see it. My leg started going numb and I was in a lot of pain at that point. I thought about driving myself to the hospital but since I was getting dizzy and it's a half hour drive and I drive a stick I figured that wasn't such a good idea. Realizing the phone was upstairs and not wanting to bleed all over the house I wrapped my leg in paper towels and taped it on with duct tape. (see there are a million uses for that stuff) I hopped upstairs and I called 911 figuring the paramedics would show up, patch me up, and that would be that. Didn't work out that way unfortunately. By the time they got there I was about ready to pass out. They unwrapped my leg and I could see by the looks on their faces they were concerned. Anyway they tried to stop the bleeding and couldn't but they started an IV and that made me feel better. Next, the cops showed up and when he looked at my leg he starts asking who shot me. Gotta love idiot local cops. Now I'm in the emergency room, then xray, then surgery.
Turns out, there was a drywall screw broken off in the board I was ripping. I hit it just right or wrong and it hit my leg like a small bullet. Unfortunately it punctured a vein and did some nerve damage. So Saturday night they took the screw out and repaired the vein. Then on Monday I had to have surgery again to fix the nerve damage. Never had any surgery before then I have it twice in 3 days over a freak 1 in a million accident. I was released on Tuesday and spent the rest of the week at my Aunt's house since there are no steps to deal with.
Anyway, I'm finally back home and more importantly online. I'll be gimping around for awhile but should make a full recovery. What really makes me :angry: is tonight is the first night of our golf league and I can't play.
So, hope your week was better than that.
04-10-2003
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