Ouch!

"m_thomas[numBksInLastHrldMage]"
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> Anne Elizabeth Baldwin wrote:
>
>> "m_thomas[numBksInLastHrldMage]"
>> <"m_thomas[numBksInLastHrldMage]"@earthlink.net> wrote in message
> <snip>
>>>Best I can offer up to join the Injured Finger Gang is that, on the
>>>year's first rosebush pruning, one of the ungrateful bushes stabbed me
>>>just under the nail of my index finger. I quite agree with you, Anne,
>>>darn inconvenient spot to get cut!
>>
>>
>> Yes, exactly. That's the part of the finger that hurts particularly...
>> and one part I use an awful lot! {Lopsided Smile}
>>
>>
>>>(On the upside, I have roses now. :> And aphids. :< )
>>
>>
>> {smile} Good luck with your roses! {SMILE}
>
> Roses apparently like the weather in my area,

Oh good. I think finding plants that are happy with your climate is half
the battle for getting plants to do well. {SMILE}

> and I follow the instructions on pruning the bushes religiously. I used
> to take the care-for-roses book, open to the page on how to prune, out to
> the yard with me when I pruned.

Good idea. That must really help. {Smile}

> Don't really fertilize as much as the books recommend, and I use only the
> environmentally friendly pesticides, not often. So I have rinse any cut
> flowers veeeeery thoroughly if I bring them in the house. But they
> definitely smell rose-y, not odorless like store-bought flowers.

That is nice. Mom much prefers roses with scents. The scentless ones just
aren't the same. {Smile}

> And, at the moment, the rose bushes are going bonkers. Boom. Nothing, to
> almost can't see the leaves for the flowers, in less than two weeks.
>
> Ok, only one bush has *that* many flowers. But the rest are rosing up
> nicely.

That is nice. I don't think I've ever seen roses do that well around
here. They prefer more pole-ward climes. {Smile}


Anne Elizabeth Baldwin
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In article <6MydnR6UuulAvpXVnZ2dnUVZ_jCdnZ2d.TakeThisOut@hawaiiantel.net>,
"Anne Elizabeth Baldwin" <anneb.TakeThisOut@aloha.net> wrote:

> "Edna" <huelsenbeck.TakeThisOut@gmailDOT.com> wrote in message
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> > I sliced the tip of my middle finger
> > a couple of weeks ago, and I have no idea how it happened. I was on my
> > way out the door, and tried to check something on my laptop on the way
> > out. (The trackpad doesn't work if your finger is pouring blood all over
> > it.) The sharpest thing I had used in the previous five minutes was a
> > butter knife to spread some mayo on a sandwich!
>
> {WINCE} I hope your finger got better quickly! {sympathetic smile}

It did heal pretty quickly, although I went through a lot of Band-Aids
during that week. (Even the "waterproof" bandages don't really stand up
to handwashing when they're on the tip of a finger.)

Edna


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"Edna" <huelsenbeck.TakeThisOut@gmailDOT.com> wrote in message
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> In article <6MydnR6UuulAvpXVnZ2dnUVZ_jCdnZ2d.TakeThisOut@hawaiiantel.net>,
> "Anne Elizabeth Baldwin" <anneb.TakeThisOut@aloha.net> wrote:
>
>> "Edna" <huelsenbeck.TakeThisOut@gmailDOT.com> wrote in message
>> news:huelsenbeck-3C2522.18535817042008@newsgroups.comcast.net...
>> > I sliced the tip of my middle finger
>> > a couple of weeks ago, and I have no idea how it happened. I was on my
>> > way out the door, and tried to check something on my laptop on the way
>> > out. (The trackpad doesn't work if your finger is pouring blood all
>> > over
>> > it.) The sharpest thing I had used in the previous five minutes was a
>> > butter knife to spread some mayo on a sandwich!
>>
>> {WINCE} I hope your finger got better quickly! {sympathetic smile}
>
> It did heal pretty quickly,

Oh good! {SMILE}

> although I went through a lot of Band-Aids
> during that week. (Even the "waterproof" bandages don't really stand up
> to handwashing when they're on the tip of a finger.)

I know. I'm trying not to use that finger in ways that require washing.
This is easier said than done. {half-smile}

Anne Elizabeth Baldwin

> Edna
>
>
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"m_thomas[numBksInLastHrldMage]"
<"m_thomas[numBksInLastHrldMage]"@earthlink.net> wrote:
> Butter knives can be sharp enough to cut... though, I admit,
> you have to get your finger going at exactly the wrong angle
> to do it. Forcefully. Mayo spreading doesn't sound forceful.

I don't think it was the mayo, but I wish I knew what it was. (After
discovering the injury and sticking a Band-Aid on, I went back and
discovered that I had in fact left bloody prints on the mayo and
mustard. Fortunately I somehow missed my son's sandwich.)
>
> Best I can offer up to join the Injured Finger Gang is that,
> on the year's first rosebush pruning, one of the ungrateful
> bushes stabbed me just under the nail of my index finger. I
> quite agree with you, Anne, darn inconvenient spot to get cut!

Ouch, ouch, ouch!

If you haven't already, I highly recommmend splurging on a pair of rose
gloves. Our house already had roses when we bought it, and my husband
convinced me to spend the extra $ on the fancy gloves. I've managed to
avoid stabbing myself so far.
>
> (On the upside, I have roses now. :> And aphids. :< )

Roses are pretty, but not something I would choose to plant on my own. I
prefer plants that don't need much fussing over, and also ones without
thorns The ones that I have now will stay as long as they don't get too
picky

Edna


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Edna wrote:
> In article <uq-dnRpuiMDBs5XVnZ2dnUVZ_sudnZ2d.TakeThisOut@earthlink.com>,
> <"m_thomas[numBksInLastHrldMage]"@earthlink.net> wrote:
>
<snip -- injuries>
>>Best I can offer up to join the Injured Finger Gang is that,
>>on the year's first rosebush pruning, one of the ungrateful
>>bushes stabbed me just under the nail of my index finger. I
>>quite agree with you, Anne, darn inconvenient spot to get cut!
>
> Ouch, ouch, ouch!
>
> If you haven't already, I highly recommmend splurging on a pair of rose
> gloves. Our house already had roses when we bought it, and my husband
> convinced me to spend the extra $ on the fancy gloves. I've managed to
> avoid stabbing myself so far.

The rose gloves I've seen here tend to be heavy rubber. And
most rose work needs to be done in summer. Heavy rubber and
100 degree weather just don't mix. I do use the
medium-heavy leather work gloves when I work on the roses...
I got careless, that first time out pruning for the year,
and the roses rewarded my carelessness. Ungrateful plants.

>>(On the upside, I have roses now. :> And aphids. :< )
>
> Roses are pretty, but not something I would choose to plant on my own. I
> prefer plants that don't need much fussing over, and also ones without
> thorns The ones that I have now will stay as long as they don't get too
> picky

Like yours, these roses were here when I bought the house.
Most were healthy enough that I would feel badly pulling
them out. (They aren't nearly as bothered by the bugs as I
am. I suppose a spotted flower petal doesn't bother a
rosebush, as long as the flower is sound enough to attract
bees.)

Even healthier now. Following that pruning advice seems to
have *really* worked. I couldn't when I moved in, but I can
now sneer at the neighbors. <sing-song>"My roses are
healthier than youuurs."</sing-song>

I won't plant more roses. Not in this climate -- what I
plant myself is mostly labeled "drought tolerant" in
gardening books. I pulled out a couple of the rose bushes
last autumn -- a healthy rose bush can tolerate a few bugs,
but those two bushes weren't healthy, weren't tolerating,
and were barely producing leaves, never mind flowers.
Replacement plants are drought tolerant. And thorn-free.

And should be a *lot* less work!

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victoreia wrote:

> On 4/18/2008 6:59 AM, Bookwyrm wrote: [snip of owies]
>
>>
>> I cut my finger in a totally new (to me, at least) way
>> a couple of weeks back. I cut it with the edge of
>> aluminum foil that I was wrapping some food with. Hurt
>> just like a paper cut. Owie!
>>
>> 'wyrm
>
> Owie indeed!
>
> Just don't ever catch a fingertip in a car
> door.....especially when the door slams shut hard enough
> to break the tip of the bone _and_ take off most of the
> nail.................you really, really don't want to
> find out how much that hurts. (You have no idea how many
> nerve endings are there until you don't have that nice
> nail protecting them!)

OWIE!

I have some idea. I've seen a nice exhibit at science
museums, a sculpture of a human body with the body part
sizes proportional to the number of nerve endings in them.
The finger tips were kinda big...

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"m_thomas[numBksInLastHrldMage]"
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> victoreia wrote:
>
>> On 4/18/2008 6:59 AM, Bookwyrm wrote: [snip of owies]
>>
>>>
>>> I cut my finger in a totally new (to me, at least) way
>>> a couple of weeks back. I cut it with the edge of
>>> aluminum foil that I was wrapping some food with. Hurt
>>> just like a paper cut. Owie!
>>>
>>> 'wyrm
>>
>> Owie indeed!
>>
>> Just don't ever catch a fingertip in a car
>> door.....especially when the door slams shut hard enough
>> to break the tip of the bone _and_ take off most of the
>> nail.................you really, really don't want to find out how much
>> that hurts. (You have no idea how many
>> nerve endings are there until you don't have that nice
>> nail protecting them!)
>
> OWIE!
>
> I have some idea. I've seen a nice exhibit at science museums, a
> sculpture of a human body with the body part sizes proportional to the
> number of nerve endings in them. The finger tips were kinda big...

How big were they? {curious look}


Anne Elizabeth Baldwin


> Megan
> Journeyperson Dancing Barbarian
> Keeper o' the FAQ: http://home.earthlink.net/~m_thomas3/abml/
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> Last night I somehow managed to slice into the tip of my index finger
> with the edge of the mirror in the bathroom. {wince}
>
> It isn't really serious, but it did bleed, so I have a bandage on it now.
>
> Writing with a pencil is an interesting challenge now. It doesn't seem to
> interfere with typing as much, but I'm noticing a little pain if I type with
> the tip of that finger too much. I'm trying to type with a different part of
> the finger, but it's a little clumsy. Computer mouse use is almost normal,
> at least. {Smile}
>
> So if posts and replies are sparse and short for a while, that's my
> excuse. {Smile}
>
>
> Anne Elizabeth Baldwin

Agreed, Ouch!

My *last* similar injury was when I tried to close a very sharp pocket
knife and my fat finger was nearly removed for being in-the-way. It took
over 6 months to feel mostly normal instead of like it had a thick
callus on it.

And yes, I do similarly stupid things often enough that people at work
avoid me when I have sharp objects - they do not want my blood on them.

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"Aaron" <kemtek.1.RemoveThis@gmail.com> wrote in message
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>> Last night I somehow managed to slice into the tip of my index finger
>> with the edge of the mirror in the bathroom. {wince}
>>
>> It isn't really serious, but it did bleed, so I have a bandage on it
>> now.
>>
>> Writing with a pencil is an interesting challenge now. It doesn't seem
>> to interfere
>> with typing as much, but I'm noticing a little pain if I type with the
>> tip of that finger too much. I'm trying to type with a different part
>> of the finger, but it's a little clumsy. Computer mouse use is almost
>> normal, at least. {Smile}
>>
>> So if posts and replies are sparse and short for a while, that's my
>> excuse. {Smile}
>>
>>
>> Anne Elizabeth Baldwin
>
> Agreed, Ouch!
>
> My *last* similar injury was when I tried to close a very sharp pocket
> knife and my fat finger was nearly removed for being in-the-way. It took
> over 6 months to feel mostly normal instead of like it had a thick callus
> on it.

{wince} That was a bad one. {sympathetic look}

Fortunately, this one shouldn't take months to heal. I'm anticipating
more like 1-3 weeks, but we'll see. I might be luckier than I think. {Smile,
cross left-hand fingers, GRIN}

> And yes, I do similarly stupid things often enough that people at work
> avoid me when I have sharp objects - they do not want my blood on them.

I can't blame them, somehow. {SMILE, wink}


Anne Elizabeth Baldwin
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"m_thomas[numBksInLastHrldMage]" wrote:
> Bookwyrm wrote:

>> I cut my finger in a totally new (to me, at least) way a
>> couple of weeks back. I cut it with the edge of aluminum
>> foil that I was wrapping some food with. Hurt just like a
>> paper cut. Owie!
>
> How the... I didn't think aluminum foil had enough
> structural integrity to do that. Not the slice-y bit on the
> box, but the foil itself?

Think of a paper cut...it can come from very thin paper. Computer operators
usually learn the hard way to be VERY careful when working around a
high-speed continuous-forms printer; the paper moving through the mechanism
has all of the user-friendly attitude of a bandsaw, and sometimes the same
results. (Today's office printers don't have the danger because their paper
moves far, far slower than would be acceptable in a mainframe environment.)

Joe Morris
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Aaron wrote:
>> Last night I somehow managed to slice into the tip of my index finger
>> with the edge of the mirror in the bathroom. {wince}
>>
>> It isn't really serious, but it did bleed, so I have a bandage on
>> it now.
>>
>> Writing with a pencil is an interesting challenge now. It doesn't
>> seem to interfere with typing as much, but I'm noticing a little pain
>> if I type with the tip of that finger too much. I'm trying to type
>> with a different part of the finger, but it's a little clumsy.
>> Computer mouse use is almost normal, at least. {Smile}
>>
>> So if posts and replies are sparse and short for a while, that's my
>> excuse. {Smile}
>>
>>
>> Anne Elizabeth Baldwin
>
> Agreed, Ouch!
>
> My *last* similar injury was when I tried to close a very sharp pocket
> knife and my fat finger was nearly removed for being in-the-way. It took
> over 6 months to feel mostly normal instead of like it had a thick
> callus on it.
>

DH sliced off the tip of his right thumb with a jointer/planer some
years back. *wince*
Luckily a good surgeon was on duty in the ER that day. Fixed the nerve
endings and closed the wound.
Only problem, it has healed with a rather bulbous end -- looks sort of
like a big toe, rather than a thumb.
And makes grasping some small things (peeling covers off of some food
packages, for example) rather difficult -- to sometimes almost impossible.

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In article <yrydnVhPJvfC4pTVnZ2dnUVZ_j6dnZ2d.TakeThisOut@earthlink.com>,
"m_thomas[numBksInLastHrldMage]"
<"m_thomas[numBksInLastHrldMage]"@earthlink.net> wrote:

> Edna wrote:
[SNIP]
> > If you haven't already, I highly recommmend splurging on a pair of rose
> > gloves. Our house already had roses when we bought it, and my husband
> > convinced me to spend the extra $ on the fancy gloves. I've managed to
> > avoid stabbing myself so far.
>
> The rose gloves I've seen here tend to be heavy rubber. And
> most rose work needs to be done in summer. Heavy rubber and
> 100 degree weather just don't mix. I do use the
> medium-heavy leather work gloves when I work on the roses...
> I got careless, that first time out pruning for the year,
> and the roses rewarded my carelessness. Ungrateful plants.

Ugh, rubber does not sound good. I got a pair at the local nursery with
soft leather hands, and heavy suede gauntlets. Of course, since I threw
away the packaging long ago, the only tag inside reads "Made in
Pakistan," so I can't tell you who makes them.
>
[SNIP}
> > Roses are pretty, but not something I would choose to plant on my own. I
> > prefer plants that don't need much fussing over, and also ones without
> > thorns The ones that I have now will stay as long as they don't get too
> > picky
>
> Like yours, these roses were here when I bought the house.
> Most were healthy enough that I would feel badly pulling
> them out. (They aren't nearly as bothered by the bugs as I
> am. I suppose a spotted flower petal doesn't bother a
> rosebush, as long as the flower is sound enough to attract
> bees.)

I don't worry about the bugs on them, but I do try to prune and deadhead
as needed. I looked in the back yard this morning and discovered a bunch
of pink roses that opened overnight. (Well, maybe over two nights, since
I wasn't home long enough during the day yesterday to look.)

I did pull out one rose last year, because it looked really sad, and was
occupying the only sunny spot in the front yard (I planted irises and
lilies instead). I discovered WHY it looked so sad: when we dug up the
flower bed, we found that whoever planted the rose bush simply made a
little hole in the clay and stuck it in. We ended up digging out the
entire bed and putting actual dirt into it.

Edna


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On Fri, 18 Apr 2008 19:01:17 -1000, victoreia
<inkypaws RemoveThis @hawaii.nospam.rr.com> wrote:

>On 4/18/2008 6:59 AM, Bookwyrm wrote:
>[snip of owies]
>>
>> I cut my finger in a totally new (to me, at least) way a couple of weeks
>> back.
>> I cut it with the edge of aluminum foil that I was wrapping some food with.
>> Hurt just like a paper cut. Owie!
>>
>> 'wyrm
>
>Owie indeed!
>
>Just don't ever catch a fingertip in a car door.....especially when the
>door slams shut hard enough
>to break the tip of the bone _and_ take off most of the
>nail.................you really, really don't want to
>find out how much that hurts. (You have no idea how many nerve endings
>are there until you don't
>have that nice nail protecting them!)

Having done something similar, I would agree with you, Victoreia.

Toes have LOTS of nerve endings protected by nails, too. Losing a
nail on the toe leads to MANY interesting consequences I could have
lived without.

Az
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