12 replies to this topic

[Susan61]

Hi:  I am trying to read what has been going on, but trouble typing.  Tryed the hunt and peck, but keep hitting my injury on my hand.  I did something stupid on Wed. night before Thanksgiving.  I was using that Shredder like a Mandolin slicer that was so popular on TV last year, and I did not cut myself well preparing the food.  I forgot to put the lock on , and put it in the dishwasher.  Went to pull out something, and slid my left hand right along the blade.

If you have one, please be careful using it.  Shrarpest thing I ever used.  Could not stop the bleeding for over an hour.  FInally had to go to the ER, and they had to work on it witha clotting Gel, and some stitches.  Finally off the pain medication, but it hurts like hell, if I hit it wrong.  It ia taking me forever to type this message.  I hope I can go to a small bandage enough to be able to do more.

   Miss getting into the conversations, and trying to help out where I can.

  Hope Everyone had a great Thanksgiving.

Susan

[hannibellemo]

Oh, Susan, I'm so sorry to hear about your hand. I have one of those things and even though they work great they're scary as hell! Hope you're back with your encouraging words soon.

I haven't been posting much lately either because I'm giving my "mouse"

hand and neck a break from the desktop. Started having burning pain in my neck from hunching over the keyboard and my right arm tingles when I'm stretching my arm out to use the mouse. Ergonomics 101 here I come. Hunting and pecking on my tablet is a pain in the rear!

Take care and protect that hand,

Pat

[Rissa]

OUCH!!!  My hand's all tingly just thinking about it.  I cut my hand once taking an apple corer/slicer out of the dish washer, but it wasn't as bad as your injury.  Wow!  Don't do that again! 

[Marnie]

Yea. . .I am not the only Thanksgiving idiot out there!!!  A couple of Thanksgivings ago, I chopped off the tip of my finger 2 hours before my company was coming, while I was chopping yams for the roasting pan.  Went to urgent care, but it was closed, so came back home so as not to miss the dinner.  MISTAKE!!  Wrapped my profousely bleeding finger up and got thru the night, but then the following Monday when I went in to get the top of the finger stitched back on (it was hanging from a piece of skin), the doc was skeptical about whether it would take.  It did not.  Now I have a stupid looking finger (the tip eventually turned black and fell off) with no feeling in the tip of it, but which hurts when I play the guitar or harp. 

Susan. . .it's so good to know that I am in GOOD COMPANY!!!  Sorry about your hand.  Those Mandolines are DANGEROUS!!  Did you read the warnings on your Gleevec paperwork???  It says. . ."DO NOT USE SHARP INSTRUMENTS."  I'm not kidding.  My husband doesn't ever let me forget it. 

Heal up soon, and make your husband do the cooking from now on.

Marnie

[GerryL]

Hi Susan,

I'm wincing just reading yours and Marnie's adventures. Hoping your hand heals quickly.

[Judy2]

Hi Susan. I cringed when I read your post. Since we're talking about gross accidents when I was 5 years old I was playng with my older brother and a yardstick. We were trying to pole vault, I slipped and the yardstick went down my throat and made a big hole. My mother was in the kitchen, when she saw what happened she yelled at my brother- his reply "I didn't have to tell you". What did he mean, he didn't have to tell her, I would have bled to death. By the way, my brother was 14 years old at the time. Anyway Susan, heal fast so you can start posting again.

Judy

[AliceJane]

Yikes! That made me cringe.  Hope you heal fast.

I am not telling about my showing off with a garden hoe when I was 5 and tips of my 3 toes. They are back on, but one I can "feel" when I trim the nail 52 yrs later. It is not pain, just "feels" and is weird.

alice.

[AliceJane]

I understand about shoulder and wrist pain. I have arthritis and fibromyalgia. My shoulders used to burn and hurt so much when I spent time at computer. Here is what I did.

My aunt gave me her old Lane rocker/recliner. The classic small good support kind, that has wood arms showing. Not one of those oversized ones.  I got an old wood kitchen table, the kind that really only 2 can sit at comfortable. Took yard stick and measured comfortable height for me to rest my mouse arm on and cut the legs down to that height.

I have my screen, computer and mouse pad w/gel wrist support on the table to side of recliner.

In front of me I have one of those wooden tv trays, child size for keyboard. It is perfect height for me to lean forward long enough to type, The rest of the time I am layed back in recliner with arm and wrist resting on the cut down table.

It is perfect and cost me almost nothing. Table $20, tv tray $5. $ll you need is a saw and yard stick.

done, no pain.

alice

[jrsboo]

Ouch!  Before law school, I was a chef, with a culinary degree and everything.  I have seen and experienced some amazing owies.  I was always the one they ran to as I did not faint or scream, but calmly held the parts together with pressure until the medics arrived. 

I also own a mandoline.

For anyone else that does, please don't put them in the dishwasher, nor your knives.  Always place them on the counter on the side of the sink so they do not fall into murky water (thus becoming knife bombs).  Clean them separately and dry them and put them away immediately.  Or, I have found a fabulous dish drainer from Simple Human that incorporates a knife block into the drainer.  Super handy! 

--Caroline (whose tip of her finger did take!  I am the queen of the butterfly bandage.  Always have them on hand)

[CallMeLucky]

Sorry you were hurt, hope you heal up soon.

[pammartin]

Holy Heck Susan,  Feel better quickly!  I watched a few ads for that machine last year, I definitely do not want one now!  Take care  Pam

[BethG]

Ouch, Ouch, ouch! You have been through the ringer this year! Take care, rest that hand and get well soon!...

(Oh, and my ouchie hand story is that I once broke off a sewing machine needle into my index finger! Not fun. They had to remove the finger nail to get the needle out. Too bad the ER didn't feel the need to run a CBC for this injury as it happened two months before I was diagnosed with CML...)