Well, it finally happened! Due to a lapse in concentration I ended up in theatre in the Epworth hospital in Melbourne last night.
I was out in the shed cutting some panels for a book shelf/cupboard I am building when for some reason I experienced a brain fart.
Dont ask me why by I reached out to clear an off-cut from the out side of the blade and somehow managed to push my thumb into the blade. All I felt at the time was a "nudge" on my hand and a slight nick. I knew straight away I had been a "silly boy"
My wife took me into the local hospital where they cleaned, poked and x-rayed my thumb. I had managed to cut from just under my thumbnail back to the first joint. In doing so most of the bone in the top of my thumb was shattered. I am lucky to still have the top part of the thumb.
After 3 hours in the ED and several doses off Morphine it was decided that I would be better off in Melbourne where the Plastic Surgeons were. So after 2 hour drive I was admitted to Epworth and hustled into theatre at 12:30am.
Now I am sitting here with my arm in a sling, my thumb throbbing and my ego severely dented. I am not sure when I will be allowed back into the shed, or when I can expect to return to work.
Luckily there are no photos of the injury for me to post here, but the memory will be with me for some time.
Kev