Koosh
09-09-2003, 07:06 PM
I don't really see how his luck can get much worse!
3 weeks ago: Pulling his boat into the trailer, it gets semi stuck. He braces and pulls as hard as he can, only to find out that it really wasn't all that stuck, so the boat basically runs him over. He rolled his ankle (his feet were planted, he fell over, but his right foot didn't move). The doctor told him if he stayed off of it for 3 weeks, it would heal fine, if not, it would be much longer. My didn't like that, so he continued to work with it. Even though it hurt him like all hell (is what he says).
2 days later: Cleaning the winsheild on his truck, the wiper blade slices open the top of his right hand. Needed 18 stiches to get it closed.
1 week ago: Cut his leg. Probably needed stiches for that one too, but he just taped it shut and it seems to have healed realatively well.
But the worst happened on Friday. He works at a Window shop down in Denver, CO. He was going to throw a window in the trash can, from what I understand, he was sliding it in there when it shattered, the glass stopped, but his hand kept going.
He cut two tendons, a nerve, and a branch to a main artery just below his wrist on the right hand. They took him to an "urgent care" facility, but they turned him away, and told him to go to Porter Hostpital. Well OK, the owner of the company he works for drove him out there where they found out just how bad it was.
They rushed him into emergency surgery and stiched shut the artery he cut (its the same one that people cut to suicide, they said that he would have bled to death if they waited much longer) , but told him to come back Monday for surgery on the Nerve and Tendons he severed (he can't move his wrist right now, and they put a plaster caste on it to keep it that way).
Everything is OK so far... he can't lift more then 1/2 pound in is right hand because only two stiches are holding one of the tendons he cut together. Right now he's kind of afraid it might have ripped out again because he can't EVER leave well enough alone. I must have helped him re position the caste and bandages 3 times today. But over all he's acting like nothing happened at all (of course the Vicodin they gave him could be helping that ;) ), he just has the next 8-12 weeks off for workmans comp.
The only good news I can see out of this is that the time off he gets might help heal his ankle... But my dad has only called in sick 2 days in the last 20 years, getting him to not go into work for 8-12 weeks will be the biggest problem.
3 weeks ago: Pulling his boat into the trailer, it gets semi stuck. He braces and pulls as hard as he can, only to find out that it really wasn't all that stuck, so the boat basically runs him over. He rolled his ankle (his feet were planted, he fell over, but his right foot didn't move). The doctor told him if he stayed off of it for 3 weeks, it would heal fine, if not, it would be much longer. My didn't like that, so he continued to work with it. Even though it hurt him like all hell (is what he says).
2 days later: Cleaning the winsheild on his truck, the wiper blade slices open the top of his right hand. Needed 18 stiches to get it closed.
1 week ago: Cut his leg. Probably needed stiches for that one too, but he just taped it shut and it seems to have healed realatively well.
But the worst happened on Friday. He works at a Window shop down in Denver, CO. He was going to throw a window in the trash can, from what I understand, he was sliding it in there when it shattered, the glass stopped, but his hand kept going.
He cut two tendons, a nerve, and a branch to a main artery just below his wrist on the right hand. They took him to an "urgent care" facility, but they turned him away, and told him to go to Porter Hostpital. Well OK, the owner of the company he works for drove him out there where they found out just how bad it was.
They rushed him into emergency surgery and stiched shut the artery he cut (its the same one that people cut to suicide, they said that he would have bled to death if they waited much longer) , but told him to come back Monday for surgery on the Nerve and Tendons he severed (he can't move his wrist right now, and they put a plaster caste on it to keep it that way).
Everything is OK so far... he can't lift more then 1/2 pound in is right hand because only two stiches are holding one of the tendons he cut together. Right now he's kind of afraid it might have ripped out again because he can't EVER leave well enough alone. I must have helped him re position the caste and bandages 3 times today. But over all he's acting like nothing happened at all (of course the Vicodin they gave him could be helping that ;) ), he just has the next 8-12 weeks off for workmans comp.
The only good news I can see out of this is that the time off he gets might help heal his ankle... But my dad has only called in sick 2 days in the last 20 years, getting him to not go into work for 8-12 weeks will be the biggest problem.