If you ever wondered….
Feb 14th, 2007 by Peter
…. how finger looks after it has been involved with a blender, then click the thumbnail.
I managed to pull this idiotic stunt out my fat ass this evening during the huge cake-bake-session. I guess C’s classmates will have to do without cake tomorrow after all. Just came home from the emmergency room 30 min ago and had to share.
I won’t lie to you. I am to blame for this solo stupidity. Would a normal thinking person put his finger inside a blender head to get out some butter/sucker without taking out the cord? Didn’t think so. Guess that makes me not normal?
7 stitches to keep the half-cut finger together but looks like I get out of this one with hopefully only a scar and possible bent nail when it heals. The bone inside my finger stopped the blade’s havoc on my flesh. I still have feeling in the finger, and it seems to react ok on my commands even though it hurts moving it.
10 days of no bending and absolute relaxing in that finger/hand. Fortunately it was the left (I’m right-handed), and it will take more to keep me from casual blogging. I will weigh my words more though.
Yeah yeah… I know. Some people will do anything to have something to blog about. :)
How many stiches do you have? Four?
7 stitches.
Six on the top and one under. 2 is very close. The doc lady had to change to a thinner thread after the first 2 stitches. So one had to be redone.
Would have been a cool count, if it wasn’t because the story that follows the cut makes me look so stupid.
Have you ever put a fork in a toaster … Because that is just as STUUUUPID :-)
Get better tiger. The world needs your pinky finger.
Tnx Tim. Pretty hard to dry up boogers when the usual suspect is wounded :)
Hobe your finger will get well, very soon. I’ve also pulled that stunt a few times, thinking; “Nothing will happend” – I’ll think twice, the next time!!!
Get well!
You know they say that married men live longer than single men. Having been both married and single, I’m quite sure that this is because wives tend to hover over us, preventing us from doing stupid shit like this. I almost died from asphyxiation once, having inhaled the dust from some very hot peppers I had just blended up in a coffee grinder. Lungs got inflamed and I couldn’t breathe. At least a hovering wife would have been able to say, “don’t do that, you idiot!”
Ha ha.. Sam. N1.
Sorry, but can’t help but laugh a bit by your story. Trust me, I would have done the same myself, and probably will in the future. Hopefully I can’t get hold of Habanero peppers or similar strong. Last time I made those, I got a whiff of your accident, but without any life threatening result.
I agree with the wife thesis. My wife normally tells me when I am stupid and why. Normally she is right.
If you asked me 1 hour before my accident, I would have sworn that I would never put my finger inside a staff blender. 1 hour later I did it. As always many things went wrong at the same time: I was stressed, overtired, distracted by a talkative wife, and hit that 1 second of no brain activity and put my finger into the machine to clean it and then it started. Exactly the same as I did 2 hours before but back then I used a spoon. Somehow everything clicked and I forgot the spoon and reacted instantly using a finger for cleaning the blades. As many explanations as I can find unfortunately won’t free me from being the only one to blame. I was stupid, and I got punished.
Is your finger better now?
It is, though I don’t think it will ever be pretty again. The nail is divided down the middle and the nail sticks into everything I touch. Pretty annoying if I don’t keep it cut short and neat all the time. I’m not complaining much though, as it was me who put the sucker into the blender. :-/