wood attacks toe

desi2960

desi2960

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i'm looking for a piece of wood among one of the 1/2 dozen stacks of wood i have, and NOT paying attention, and going too fast, and not wearing shoes, this piece of granadillo, 1 1/2 by 1 1/2 by 18 inches, does a couple flips, and like something out of a road runner cartoon, slow motion, lands straight down on my big toe !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

photo next morning, yes i do have a limp.
 

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I pray you get get to feeling better really soon. I will try to remember to never work in flip flops or bare footed in my shop again.
 
I didn't know you pinged your woods that way.
Yikes!
Get well soon.
Granadillo sure is hard and heavy.
 
I did a similar thing some years ago with the old Coke 2 quart bottle(filled). As you know, it was an AMAZING feeling!
 
I have been there and done that!!!.... "NOT paying attention, and going too fast, and not wearing shoes,"... Your words not mine. Ouch!!!! Get better soon!!
 
Dropped a can opener.....

I did this 15 years ago with a can opener. I ended up having to lance the nail to release the pressure of pooling blood under the nail bed. The nail still has not returned to normal as my wife likes to constantly remind me when wearing flip flops.....
Good luck Chuck!
 
Ouch....I know that hurts.



I might be able to help you feel some better.


You had an accident...mine was pure stupid.:speechless:



...about 20 years ago..

I was helping move office furniture...into a rental moving truck with a roll up rear door...the sectional door laying in the overhead track was about 7 feet high inside the truck.

With me inside the truck, my buddy outside..we stood up an 8 foot high heavy bookcase at the rear of the truck. We cantilevered it flat on the floor of the truck. I pulled, he pushed until it was inside.

I wanted to stand it up and walk it into place inside the truck. So, I did a sorta cling and jerk, rapidly standing it up. The stand up momentum quickly and unexpectedly became back down momentum, as the 8 foot bookcase met the 7 foot flexing ceiling(door in track). It came down in a hurry. I couldn't stop it. I tried to scoot my feet back out of the way.

Apparently, I pushed off of my anchored right foot, and got my left foot out of the way. But the weight and momentum of the falling bookcase slammed down on my right big toe. :eek:

There was a blinding white light from behind my eyeballs and pain that was a new personal best for me. I guess I yanked my pinned down toe out about the time I started making whimpering gurgling noises, according to my buddy as he laughed his ass off, telling me.:angry:

We finished the move, but I wasn't much help for the next four hours....the toe was screaming at me...my tennis shoe was getting pretty squishy and red in the big toe area...but I knew if I looked, that I was done.

Finished up, got myself to Urgent care. The toe was bigger and flatter than I remembered it being. X-rays done. Nurse assistant tugged gently and nail came off.

Doc called it a tomato crush fracture..lots of little pieces.

It still talks to me when it gets cold.


I hope this little story will help you feel better.:thumbup:


ps: I don't help anybody move anymore.


pps: ...then there was the time I fell out of a pepper tree and landed on a barbed wire fence....bounced and landed on it again.;)...did I already mention stupid?
 
Won't make you feel any better, but 2 years ago I did the same thing with a hockey puck. Was at the computer holding the thing and dropped it on my bare toe. Landed on edge and did some damage lol
 
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