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Lady Fitzgerald · 06-19-2010, 07:35 AM

Unfortunately, I won't get to play with it for a bit. I also got a guillotine type paper cutter (for cutting the spines off books for scanning) today from Amazon. While I was testing it (ok, playing with it), I managed to almost cut off the end of my right thumb. I couldn't stop the bleeding so I went to the emergency room (had fun driving with just my left hand) and spent most of the night there. They had the divil of a time getting the bleeding to stop but, eventually, they got it down to a very slow seep, bandaged it, and sent me home. I made a drug store run on the way home, then cleaned up the mess I made (it looked like the Texas chain saw massacre in my bathroom where I had tried to stop the bleeding). Then, I hauled the trash to the dumpster while my thumb was still numb enough to let me do so.

The reason there was so much blood was I had accidently pulled my thumb across the blade of the cutter (I've seen new razor blades duller than that blade!). I actually got lucky; I had thought I had made a deep slice in the thumb (I couldn't see for all the blood) but, actually, the blade caught the top of the thumbnail and cut it off the thumb. The nail bed somehow was spared along with the cuticle so the nail will eventually grow back. The nail bed is loaded with capillaries and that was why there was so much blood. That, and I'm on blood thinners.

I've been up 25 hours and I need to go to bed so my new Mentor will just have to wait until I'm functional again. I also want to get to sleep before the local wears off.

Nachty nacht.

06-19-2010, 07:35 AM	#1
Lady Fitzgerald Wizard Posts: 2,013 Karma: 251649 Join Date: Apr 2010 Location: Tempe, AZ, USA, Earth Device: JetBook Lite (away from home) + 1 spare, 32" TV (at home)	Got My Mentor Today! Unfortunately, I won't get to play with it for a bit. I also got a guillotine type paper cutter (for cutting the spines off books for scanning) today from Amazon. While I was testing it (ok, playing with it), I managed to almost cut off the end of my right thumb. I couldn't stop the bleeding so I went to the emergency room (had fun driving with just my left hand) and spent most of the night there. They had the divil of a time getting the bleeding to stop but, eventually, they got it down to a very slow seep, bandaged it, and sent me home. I made a drug store run on the way home, then cleaned up the mess I made (it looked like the Texas chain saw massacre in my bathroom where I had tried to stop the bleeding). Then, I hauled the trash to the dumpster while my thumb was still numb enough to let me do so. The reason there was so much blood was I had accidently pulled my thumb across the blade of the cutter (I've seen new razor blades duller than that blade!). I actually got lucky; I had thought I had made a deep slice in the thumb (I couldn't see for all the blood) but, actually, the blade caught the top of the thumbnail and cut it off the thumb. The nail bed somehow was spared along with the cuticle so the nail will eventually grow back. The nail bed is loaded with capillaries and that was why there was so much blood. That, and I'm on blood thinners. I've been up 25 hours and I need to go to bed so my new Mentor will just have to wait until I'm functional again. I also want to get to sleep before the local wears off. Nachty nacht.