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m-jean03 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Apr-02-04 03:02 PM
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Have you ever severed a digit?
Edited on Fri Apr-02-04 03:12 PM by m-jean03
When I was seventeen, the tops of the first three fingers on my left hand experienced the cold, sharp slice of a chef's blade. At my first "real" job (dishwasher.) Prepping potatoes for soup. Finger tops stayed on, but were dangling!

I am proud to say, I didn't faint. I couldn't watch for more than a few seconds, however, when they were sewn back on. I had a massive amount of local anesthetic in my hand, so I couldn't feel a thing. It was pretty strange, all that blood pouring out of the stitches, but no pain.

Your gruesome stories?
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Screaming Lord Byron Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Apr-02-04 03:03 PM
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1. My dad had his hand severed then restitched.
Yowza!
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GOPisEvil Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Apr-02-04 03:04 PM
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2. Aaaaaiiiiiiieeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Happily I've got all the body parts I'm supposed to have. No real gruesome tales.

I busted my head on a radiator when I was 2, but I don't remember much. I still have the scar, though.
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m-jean03 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Apr-02-04 03:09 PM
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7. Hey, cool, I got my head busted too.
Edited on Fri Apr-02-04 03:09 PM by m-jean03
When I was 4 or 5, my friend climbed up on the porch railing and knocked a clay pot on my head. LOTS of blood. I have a scar, I think, but I have too much hair up there to see it.:-)
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GOPisEvil Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Apr-02-04 03:12 PM
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10. Mine's right in the middle of my forehead.
I tell little kids that it's where my 3rd eye used to be. :7
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LynzM Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Apr-02-04 03:07 PM
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3. No digits...
But my cat fell from above my head and tried to stop himself on my lips and shoulder... almost went clean through my lip, that was fun. :)
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Guaranteed Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Apr-03-04 06:41 AM
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21. OUCH...
Sounds painful as hell. :)
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DBoon Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Apr-02-04 03:07 PM
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4. Only when using floating point arithmetic
gotta be careful about truncating digits when programming....
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SOteric Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Apr-02-04 03:08 PM
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5. I whacked off 1/4" of my left thumb while traunching fish.
Most of it grew back, though...with a faint 'dimple.'

The knife was sharp and the fish was cold. Hardly knew it happened when it did.
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ima_sinnic Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Apr-02-04 03:08 PM
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6. this is gross . . . back in the sixties
when I was in college and playing Hearts 24/7s in the student lounge, one of the guys who always played cards with us showed up with his finger heavily bandaged. He said--calmly! and with what might even be described as glee!--that he had just chopped off his ring finger, with the ring on, and mailed it to his ex-girlfriend, who had apparently just broken up with him.

I will never forget that, how disturbed that seemed, but I cannot for the life of me remember the immediate aftermath. Only that I never saw him again after that.
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m-jean03 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Apr-02-04 03:11 PM
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9. Wow.
That is really ghoulish.
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Guaranteed Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Apr-03-04 06:44 AM
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22. Yeah, bet he got institutionalized. nt
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DinahMoeHum Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Apr-02-04 03:11 PM
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8. "French-bread thumb" - an insidious social malady in the 'burbs.
Edited on Fri Apr-02-04 03:11 PM by frankzappa
It happens mostly at dinner parties after drinking too much and accidentally cutting your thumb or other digit instead of the French bread.

:evilgrin:
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bif Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Apr-02-04 03:14 PM
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11. I've always hated the number 5. So I've cut off my relationship with it.
Oh, you mean finger? Sorry.
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catmandu57 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Apr-02-04 03:14 PM
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12. I parted company with the large toe on my right foot
42 years ago, I was barefoot on the back of my uncles bicycle, the chain took it off.
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commander bunnypants Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Apr-02-04 03:15 PM
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13. part of my thumb as a dishwasher too
most of my left leg is titanium. But that does not count.

DDQM
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m-jean03 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Apr-02-04 03:16 PM
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14. You are serious about the leg?
How did it happen, if you don't mind me asking?
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commander bunnypants Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Apr-02-04 03:18 PM
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16. Fell off a cliff in San Diego
blew out my pelvis , ankles, femur, elbows and noggin.

Long time ago. Mrs. Demmen thinks the scars are sexy

DDQM


BTW- Watch out for eroding cliffs. That last step is a doozy
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Wickerman Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Apr-02-04 03:16 PM
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15. Nope, but I put a hole in top lip
I was 5, just ready to go to Kindergarten. I flipped over the handlebars of my bike, caught something and tore a hole in my face - just above the lip and below the nose.

Got home, cleaned up a bit, my face was just a mass of meat. I still recall the sound of my mother hitting the floor in a dead faint as I said, "look, Mom, I can put my finger through my lip".

A very skilled general practitioner put me back together to the point where within two or three years you couldn't see a thing. I WAS the only boy in my Kindergarten class with a mustache, though. Stitches looked like a 'stache.
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bahrbearian Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Apr-02-04 03:20 PM
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17. No but the Doctor had to Dock my tail after I was born.
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ben_thayer Donating Member (344 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Apr-02-04 03:23 PM
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18. Chopped off 1/2" of my thumb
in a punch press 35 years ago. It took out most of the nail bed, and now the nail grows thick and distorted. If I don't keep it well manicured, I can scare kids with it! Couldn't play guitar for a couple months (A real tragedy at that point in my life), so I stopped working in factories after that.

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BritishHuman Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Apr-03-04 05:17 AM
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19. My brother cut my thumb with a pen-knife
Down to the bone - I still have a scar.

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REP Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Apr-03-04 05:39 AM
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20. Nearly
I nearly severed my thumb in an old-fashioned metal-bladed fan. It caught me just a fraction of an inch below the joint; if it had been at the joint it would have been completely severed. It was cut so severely it grossed out the ER doc at a Level 4 Trauma Center. I had 14 stitches put in, and a week later I had surgery reattach the nerves. That was at least 8 years ago, and I still don't have full range of motion in it and the tendon has a very noticeable dent.
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baldguy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Apr-03-04 07:42 AM
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23. 13. Hedgetrimmer. Pretty girl rollerskating by.
It didn't really hurt at first. Only after the blood started dripping on my shoes, did I notice the pain.

I still have no feeling in the tip of my finger.
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