More armchair milling for a while yet

Not having milled anything since May I was really looking forward to getting back to Oz in a couple of weeks time to take advantage of the remaining cool weather to get back to some milling. But today I mashed the tips of all 4 fingers on my left hand while closing a goods lift door at work. 6 fractures (black lines), two tendon detachments (T) and two spots where the mashed bones broke skin (S and 2S). The 2 fingers with the detached tendons have to be in splints for 6 weeks.

This pic was taken just a minutes afterwards and while it doesn't look that bad - the fingers have now swollen up like hotdogs and boy do they throb right, even though the docs have put me on some serious pain killers.

poor boy

!!!!!!
Good luck -
I had a fingertip broke off in a snowblower. Fingertips help when typing.

Ouch-yeah the vibration from milling would be intolerable right now, but they'll feel much better in a few weeks.

The stihl anti-vibe gloves are worth it.

yeah, this morning my whole hand is throbbing pretty badly and I can't bear the damaged fingers touching anything. One real bummer is this morning I'm supposed to clear out of my apartment as my lease runs out!

At least I can still type

Bob, sorry to hear of your injury, while I am of little help in the milling section, I am good in the pain dept. Talk to your doctor and see if he has a formula for a topical pain reliever, on crush injuries like yours they work better than the "goofy pills" like loritab and oxy's. If you have no luck, see if there is a Pharmacy that does compounding near you and pay them a visit. Your hand and liver will thank you.

That hurts just to look at the picture.

We'll miss your milling threads, but hope you are able to keep posting with the other hand.

I know that pain trying to open a paint stuck window. At least you can still drink beer

Wow Bob!

The pictures hurt to look at.
Heal up quick!

Cheers guys. Being far away from family is awkward at time like these.

Thanks for the pain tip Walt. One thing I have found that seems to help are those cold packs - they seem to provide more relief than the pills.

BobL said:

Cheers guys. Being far away from family is awkward at time like these.

Thanks for the pain tip Walt. One thing I have found that seems to help are those cold packs - they seem to provide more relief than the pills.

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Sounds like the swelling is a major part of the pain, hope you can get fixed up, let me know if you strike out on the topical, I can get a basic formula for you from the doc here on Monday.

Man that looks like it hurts. Get well soon.

I really feel for you Bob, finger injuries like that hurt like h@ll, especially since you want to use them all the time.

I nicked one finger today on a freshly sharpened chain and it bothered me all day long preparing some saws for a GTG.

all the best to ya !

thoes fingers look perty bad. the worst bout that is having to sit and design a new mill . cause you can't do any thing else, well you can but its gonna hurt when you bump it. I was thinking bout you today ,splitting a 40 " oak down the middle so we could move it ,heavy sob . We I tried to free hand it and missed left a slever 2 in thick ,we had a 5 gal bucket of wedges pounded in all round a piece bout 12' long When a though struck me that a mill like yours wouldn't have missed , was bout 100 today.

Walt41 said:

Bob, sorry to hear of your injury, while I am of little help in the milling section, I am good in the pain dept. Talk to your doctor and see if he has a formula for a topical pain reliever, on crush injuries like yours they work better than the "goofy pills" like loritab and oxy's. If you have no luck, see if there is a Pharmacy that does compounding near you and pay them a visit. Your hand and liver will thank you.

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after talking to a couple diff docs, after some trouble i was having--what you said aint no joke!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! you can destroy your kidneys and liver in damn short order!!!!! bit smarter now, and i didnt know!!!

Bob! WTF Man!! I thought we had a discussion about fingertip injuries and safety last weekend while you were here!

Hope you heal up quickly. Ask a doc about getting a prescription for Keterolac. It's an anti-inflammatory, like Ibuprofen but MUCH stronger. You can only take it for a week or two or it'll eat your stomach up, but I found that strong painkillers like Codeine and Oxy didn't do much at all when I trimmed the ends off my fingers back a while (thought the morphine pills could make me forget all about any pain I might have been feeling!). The anti-inflammatories are where it's at.

A few Aussie beers should dull the pain.

How did the Canadian beers compare, BobL ?

Dam I hate it when that happens. More drugs, better living via pharmacology. Hope ya heal quickly.