been a while.
first i wanna thank all of you that pmed, emailed, and called. your prayers and thoughts.......well they have made all the difference in the world.
thing happened on the 15th, we were back on site and finished the project the 27th-31st. glad it is over, but it seems they were impressed, so we got several other projects for later on this year.
if i may take a sec, when it happened, it was so quick, maybe 1/20th of a second. some pain, but a real feeling of total helplessness. something that is totally foreign to my personality.
after being in the er for several hours, and having at least 4 surgeons look at the mess and state there was too much damage and they could do nothing, i had pretty much made peace with the fact i was down to a two finger right hand. called my wife as the took me to the or and prepped her for what was going to happen.
after theyhad me on the table, a doc who had just finished with another surgery came up and asked if i smoked, or had ever smoked. after telling him no, he told me that he would try, that to even try to save the thumb, he would have to save the fingers first.
and as you can see by the photos of 13 and 23 days, he did a bang up job.
not in any pain except when the therapist pulls off the skin etc. and bend the fingers a bit more than normal.
i have pins in all three to allow the ends of the bones to grow to the other end.
sorry for the long post, but much easier to answer all the questions here than respond to 1 at a time.
btw tie, really enjoyed your call. thanks!
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. I mean the culture here is much different than my past employers, as is the willingness to be patient with an injured employee. Remember.....I hadn't started this job when I got hurt. The floor wasn't yanked out from beneath me when I informed my manager. I can't think of too many of these companies. -Rocky
