Warning! Mild Gore.

Can't say I didn't try to warn ya. ;)

And if a Mod considers this post distasteful and/or offensive, they may remove it with no fuss out of me. Just never know when some people will think something is out of line :shrug:. Moving on...

I've mentioned before that I am unapologetically harsh to my extremities. I also tend to think of my job at the bread factory as a full contact sport :matrix:. For example: I can't go a week without a bloodied shin from trip hazards... or just plain tripping up the stairs lol.

The injury (maybe too strong a word... "boo-boo"?) I got a week ago was, however, slightly unexpected. I ripped off about a third of my thumbnail. "Pics! Or it didn't happen!"

This is how a man breaks a nail!
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That one tickled. :cen

How? I was trying to sure-up a couple stacks of bread pans after having straightened one of the stacks. I was trying to use the blunt handle of a makeshift prybar to "nudge" the stack against the other. Well, I somehow managed to miss all but the seam on the very corner of the pan. Which only part of the leading edge of my thumbnail made contact with. The results are as above.

How about y'all? Got any humdinger of a work boo-boo?

I got worse learning to shave with a straight. :)

ya a leg that has a rod from ankle to knee and 2 holes in the pelvis, other than that an eye gone just boo boos

A year and a half ago, I broke my other thumb moving some bread "sponge" dough into position to be hoisted into the mixer. Don't have the pics & pics of the x-rays on this phone, however.

Missed a concrete stake with a framing hammer, but it was ok my shin stopped it.

Got my ring finger on a table saw once.

I'm sure there's a bunch more those are the only ones that come to mind. I did watch a guy almost take his leg off with a skilsaw, that screwed me up for a week, the guy healed alright considering.

I got a steel splinter yesterday but a tweezer took care of it. I'm okay now.

Was ripping thin stock (1/2" x 4") for scale blanks yesterday on the tablesaw. The far end on the board came up a little and I attempted to adjust my push block to push it back down. The result was that the board shot back at me nailing me square in the testicles. (Nobody wants to see pictures of that)
No permanent damage done, but that sure did hurt worse than I remember.

I ripped the bottom half off of one of my nails while trying to rip out a hang nail once so I feel your pain. The worst part was that the initial tear didn't hurt as much as afterwards when every touch or even slight breeze made it flair up. I also once drilled a hole in my ankle with the point of a spade bit while holding it in one hand and trying to step over something and when I swung my leg over it went straight into the ankle. Cut a portion of the tip of my pointer finger off on a bandsaw when a friend decided to push me when I was cutting something. Other than those most of my boo-boos are small, but I seem to get alot of the small ones. I guess I would rather have a few small ones than one really bad one. Knock on wood.

So how much blood does your bread recipe call for?

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So how much blood does your bread recipe call for?

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I don't have any diseases and such, so the bread just needs to not get turned pink... for some reason, that tends to put people off their meal. :thinking::shrug:

That Looks painful ...
I cut my ring finger on a saw 20 years ago, almost severed the connective tissue just beyond the knuckle 3 stitches if I recall and a half cast I had to wear for 3-6 weeks. I was bit by a ground hog when I was a kid right on my pointer finger just beyond the knuckle again. I had a habit of picking up wild animals and bringing them home...a hatchet cut on the other hand.
The one that worried me the most was when I was lifting an overhead door at a previous job and the top came off the tracks, came down and about knocked me out, lucky for me apparently I have a thick head lol

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I ripped the bottom half off of one of my nails while trying to rip out a hang nail once so I feel your pain. The worst part was that the initial tear didn't hurt as much as afterwards when every touch or even slight breeze made it flair up. I also once drilled a hole in my ankle with the point of a spade bit while holding it in one hand and trying to step over something and when I swung my leg over it went straight into the ankle. Cut a portion of the tip of my pointer finger off on a bandsaw when a friend decided to push me when I was cutting something. Other than those most of my boo-boos are small, but I seem to get alot of the small ones. I guess I would rather have a few small ones than one really bad one. Knock on wood.

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Did you find the nail.
Or is it a surprise left in a loaf[emoji39]
I found a fake nail in my food at a unnamed restaurant.
Called for the manager, and asked her to have the girl in the kitchen that the nail belonged to to pay for my dinner, that i was leaving.

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I don't have any diseases and such, so the bread just needs to not get turned pink... for some reason, that tends to put people off their meal. :thinking::shrug:

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Did you find the nail.
Or is it a surprise left in a loaf[emoji39]
I found a fake nail in my food at a unnamed restaurant.
Called for the manager, and asked her to have the girl in the kitchen that the nail belonged to to pay for my dinner, that i was leaving.

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Yes. Considering it was a fairly sizable chunk of fingernail, I didn't want to risk someone chomping down on it in their sandwich.

After patching myself up, I made sure to go back and look for it. "Not on the floor..." sure enough, it was still lodged firmly in the seam on the corner of the pan :dropjaw:. Grabbed some pliers & removed it from the pan, then stashed it in a secure location until the end of my shift. At which point, I took it home. My DNA, my chain of custody. And don't worry, the oven kills any germs that might have transferred from my hand to the outside of the pan.

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Yow! Icaramba
Makes my eyes water just looking at it.

I know what it's like to have a fingernail ripped off, and it doesn't feel good. The months after while it grows out are a pain too. As I'm sure you know, that skin is tender and will be for days. Good thing is, in a couple months, you'll be as good as new.

Here's a boo boo I did at work last year. I was installing spindles on an exterior handrail. Got done using my 2" nails and switched to 1" to shoot in the spacer blocks in between the spindles. Well, there was 1 long nail left that I missed taking out, and sure as sh!t I shot it right through the hand rail and into my finger.

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All flesh and fingernail so it healed nicely

Very nice! I showed this to my wife and got the desired response...

Broken femurs, broken & severed fingers, 3rd degree burns on leg, the list goes on.

I've had a few real good whacks to my shin recently. These were "above average" dings.

Dated Dec. 14, my most recent. (The healed one just above is the second most recent.)
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Feels good to let the bone "breathe" from time to time...
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Bedtime, a good time to grow a scab.
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A night or two ago, the scab that I'd managed to leave alone was separating/peeling up on its own. So I carefully loosened & peeled it off, trying to leave the thin layer of tissue between it & the wound.
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Still looks angry, but no signs of infection IMO. Might have a pic or two of the previous boo-boo, but I'll look for that tomorrow.

When I worked at the machine shop and ran WaterJet and Plasma tables there wasn't a day that I didn't get burned or get cut. EVERYDAY! I was constantly digging metal slivers and splinters from my body. Sliced up, burnt bruised, etc. I loved the job though. If I wasn't on the tables I was running a press brake, punch, or shear or welding my parts. It was constant on the go work and I loved it. Didn't get paid a ton and they treated everyone equally like crap and garbage, but it was a great learning experience.

Ya I,m Not Sure What Your Doing,,,,,,,,,, But Something Doesnt Appear To Be Working Real Well For You!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!OUCH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!Ty

At this rate, my shins will be more durable than my femurs! (Micro-fractures cause the bone to repair & thicken with calcium, making it stronger in the end.)

This happened less than an hour into my shift, earlier tonight.
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It was in the exact same spot as last time!
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No bandaid this time, as it wasn't bleeding much, and I wanted the scab to develop sooner rather than later.

Well, it finally happened. My shin took a hit bad enough to require medical attention. This didn't happen the usual way, however.

I was walking a narrow path between a conveyor (chest high) and a safety railing. Two pans had turned 90 degrees, and were about to cause a jam-up. As soon as I caught up to them, one slid out the narrow gap along the side of the conveyor belt, nailing me right in the shin! There was loud cussing, and limping, and still had much to do before I could hobble to the first aid kit in the supervisor's office. I had looked before I made it to the office, and noticed a bit of leg was missing.

Here is the pic I took after some cleaning, before the first bandaid.
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Soaked up the blood with a clean paper towel. Hydrogen peroxide spray. Packed it with triple antibiotic ointment. Applied a 2x3 bandaid. Had to replace the bandaid after about four hours.

Nothing was broken, and I wasn't bleeding out, so I told my supervisor I'd have it looked at after my shift. After the first few minutes, and since, the pain has been no more than an occasional ache. Got lucky there, IMO.

Got two or three stitches, plus a prescription for ten days of antibiotics because I waited several hours before getting it checked. The doc that sewed me up was impressed I did exactly correct first aid treatment. He almost ordered an x-ray, until I told him I'd done at least another 5 miles (according to my pedometer app) at work since the injury :rofl2:. "...Okay, never mind on that!"

I got my middle finger to close to the grinding wheel when sharpening machine shop tools for oilfield & severed a tendon almost all the way & the idiot male nurse at the ER finished it. He claimed he didn't do it but I could still bend my finger when I got there, but he was cleaning it & disconnected it completely. My middle finger was straight for several weeks until they could do surgery. I can bend it but not like I used to.

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I pinched my little finger about a year and a half ago in a skidsteer attachment. Open fracture. the bone was crushed. Unfortunately internal scar tissue fused the tendon to the bone so I can only bend the bottom joint, not the top.

Funny thing is, it didn't really hurt when it happened. It felt more like a strong electric shock. The pain started hours later in the ER. I will say it started to hurt, but nothing some ibuprofen didn't help. I declined the Rx for the Oxy since I'm wary of that stuff.

In the first picture, the finger looks totally different than when I got there. It was originally so smashed and mangled that I just assumed they were going to have to just remove it. I was surprised when they said they were going to clean and sew it.

A before and after pic....... If it's too gory feel free to remove or let me know and I will if I can still edit....

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I don't blame you about the Oxy. I had some once & took one. it was a small but expensive script & I didn't like it so I flushed the rest.

Yikes! That one is good 'n gnarly. Having three older brothers, I grew up being told that a sprain hurts much more than a break. That is partly how I knew I broke my thumb about two and a half years ago lol. Didn't hurt all that bad... initially. Throbbed real good in the E.R., though.

I am also wary of opioid pain meds. I spent a big chunk of my youth around addiction. But because I don't take opioid meds hardly ever, I haven't built up a tolerance, so any prescriptions for such are of a very low dose! Less risk of addiction to small dosage... that's how many folks get hooked in the first place: doctor airs on the side of patient comfort, writing a 'script that will numb the pain entirely. I can tolerate pain. I bang myself up good enough, I may want something to help manage the pain, but I don't need to be numb & drooling/passed out.

I usually have between one and three of those hydrocodone pills left over. Those get forgotten in a drawer until my wife takes a spill herself, twisting an ankle or jarring her head, and ibuprofen won't touch the pain. She also grew up around addiction, and does not use these types of meds on a whim.

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I am also wary of opioid pain meds. I spent a big chunk of my youth around addiction. But because I don't take opioid meds hardly ever, I haven't built up a tolerance, so any prescriptions for such are of a very low dose! Less risk of addiction to small dosage... that's how many folks get hooked in the first place: doctor airs on the side of patient comfort, writing a 'script that will numb the pain entirely. I can tolerate pain. I bang myself up good enough, I may want something to help manage the pain, but I don't need to be numb & drooling/passed out.

I usually have between one and three of those hydrocodone pills left over. Those get forgotten in a drawer until my wife takes a spill herself, twisting an ankle or jarring her head, and ibuprofen won't touch the pain. She also grew up around addiction, and does not use these types of meds on a whim.

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Same reasons for me to avoid. That and the fact that I personally know four people that became hard core addicted to Rx Opioids. Sad, sad thing in every case. Two of them were younger working age and they lost their jobs, became frequent visitors to the E.R. for quick fixes (injections). One of the other ones, a retired man, stormed into one of the clinics in town screaming and creating a scene demanding more pain meds (he was originally prescribed them from a knee surgery...). The fourth basically went through withdrawals, is semi-retired and is doing better.

I don't discount that there are some people that are wracked with pain due to severe illness and injury pain that would otherwise be unbearable and debilitating.

For the rest of us....life hurts sometimes. I also agree with you: the avoidance of any and all pain is a recipe for a bad life.

Great line from the movie The Princess Bride: "Life IS pain, Highness. Anyone who says differently is selling something." How true is that?

A silent and widespread scourge to our society.

that's not even remotely gore-y :)

On various knife making groups on FB, I see pics coming by that illustrate why it is a bad to wear rings when using power tools (basically the finger is a white bone stem with all the skin, muscle and tendons and a mangeld ring being mushroom-topped around the nail bed). Or pics of shattered grinding discs embedded in a skull or throat. One guy (not a knifemaker probably) had nearly half his head topped off by a huge high power grinding disc that spun apart.

I make it a point to actually look at those pictures when they come by. Yes I am revolted by them, but I want to keep a healthy fear of power tools alive by confronting myself with someone else's mistakes. That day you become comfortable around power tools you become complacent. And then one day you're suddenly looking at a finger being gloved off or a piece of your body lying on the ground.