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How often do you injure yourself?
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A bendy mesh I was carrying got snagged and then freed resulting in a 7mm wide gash down my leg (and a little ball of skin/hair on the end of the rebar).
Got a decent scar from it
Got a decent scar from it
I got told off for taking a picture of the xray of my daughters broken arm at the hospitalWhat is amusing is that the first instinct of a bloke is to get a picture of it
I have had loads whilst doing DIY but thankfully so far nothing that ended up with me in hospital. I like to think that I learn from my mistakes and can see what is going to happen here.
I have a line on my leg from when I was using it as a base to electric plane some wood - the edge caught me
On the other leg I have a circle where I got a pipe bending spring spring stuck in the pipe and stretched it pulling it out but as it was resting on my leg when the pressure was relaxed it pulled my skin in with it.
On my bicep I have the scar from when I was working under an open UPVC window and stood up and the badly finished corner gouged a path, The window is now filed round on the corner.
Loads of scars from cuts mostly to my left had as that's the one in line of the slipping Stanly knife.
I have a circular saw bench and keep a tourniquet with it.
What is the most annoying when you injure yourself is that it slows down what you were doing
I have a line on my leg from when I was using it as a base to electric plane some wood - the edge caught me
On the other leg I have a circle where I got a pipe bending spring spring stuck in the pipe and stretched it pulling it out but as it was resting on my leg when the pressure was relaxed it pulled my skin in with it.
On my bicep I have the scar from when I was working under an open UPVC window and stood up and the badly finished corner gouged a path, The window is now filed round on the corner.
Loads of scars from cuts mostly to my left had as that's the one in line of the slipping Stanly knife.
I have a circular saw bench and keep a tourniquet with it.
What is the most annoying when you injure yourself is that it slows down what you were doing
Yes apparently you are not allowed.
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OMG , What is it sticking out of your hand lol?I once had a splinter in my hand, but didn't know what it was. Both my hands were a mess as we were fitting a fence after ridding the boundary of a thorny unfriendly hedge so it meant I had a lot of annoying sores and splinters to contend with. A couple of weeks after most of them healed, I had a surprise visitor...
Oh, and I fell onto the open rafters once, sacrificing my leg in place of my crown jewels or a fall onto the concrete....
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A bendy mesh I was carrying got snagged and then freed resulting in a 7mm wide gash down my leg (and a little ball of skin/hair on the end of the rebar).
Got a decent scar from it
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What's that little dribble of not-quite-clear liquid on the floor between your legs?
I'm a lot more careful these days, especially with power tools. I was once changing the belt on a belt sander and pressed the ON button with my leg, the thing fired up and the side of the belt cut into my finger web. Since then I turn everything off when changing blades etc.
But I do injure myself a couple times a year because my joints and connective tissue are made of cheese. Digging out bamboo in the summer I got tennis elbow which took 3 months to fully get better. That's another limb that I can't take for granted anymore. 6 years before that I did my anterior cruciate ligament when kneeling on a concrete floor. Numerous times I've strained my back or knees but ibuprofen usually sorts them out in a week.
So no gory photos, but I can only ever do half of what I want to, because sitting at an office desk for 25 years apprently doesn't make you resiliant to overuse injuries
But I do injure myself a couple times a year because my joints and connective tissue are made of cheese. Digging out bamboo in the summer I got tennis elbow which took 3 months to fully get better. That's another limb that I can't take for granted anymore. 6 years before that I did my anterior cruciate ligament when kneeling on a concrete floor. Numerous times I've strained my back or knees but ibuprofen usually sorts them out in a week.
So no gory photos, but I can only ever do half of what I want to, because sitting at an office desk for 25 years apprently doesn't make you resiliant to overuse injuries
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silly one once for me; I often use a metre long steel ruler, and got into a lazy habit (and there was a nun inside)sorry; lets say I am cutting a piece of wood and want it at 410mm , hold the wood and metal rule under the chop saw, line the blade up with 410, remove steel ruler then chop, very efficient ad quick way do to this, but not good practice - for reasons of complacency I forgot to remove the steel ruler - flash bang clatter - off to hospital to get my thumb stitched up.
I dont bite my nails but have noticed people who do have like a big blob of finger above the nail like a tree frog. Many times I have slipped with something and gone to look at the top of my finger sliced open only to find that my nail has saved me. I have come to the conclusion that the only purpose of finger nails is to protect the ends of your fingers.
Thumb tip crushed, when a porter slammed a train door on it - that is still miss-shaped. Fractured fore-arm, when the timber steps I was working from, walked together, and closed up. I was trying to trim a few mm off the side of a door, using an electric saw, my partner holding the door down on supports - she relaxed for a second, and the saw blade went a few mm, straight through the nail and the fingertip, chipping the end of the bone. It took several years, for the feeling to return to that fingertip.
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An 11mm long splinter that went in perpendicular and was left to fester. It became a raised sore which I squeezed and that little beauty popped out.OMG , What is it sticking out of your hand lol?
