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.
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.