Today's trip to the hospital. **Gross pics inside**

I sliced my thumb up at work and had to get it stitched up. I was fixing an air stapler and the staples cut my thumb. I had the front off and saw that the hammer was all the way down. So I slid it up and the whole row of staples just slid out when the hammer went above them. I guess they acted like a saw blade against my thumb. I should have known that the staples would fly out like that once I pushed the hammer up. However, I would never have expected them to cut like that on the way out. It happened so fast I did not even feel it. At least I was able to finish fixing it for the kids before I left. Now they can finish up their project.

The nice thing about going to Parkridge is that there is this really great Philly cheese steak place around the corner. They actually shave the ribeye steaks there to make the sandwich. So every time I have to go the hospital I stop and get one on the way home. The other nice thing is that I kept my accident insurance from when I was a cop. So I just submit the hospital bill and they will send me a check for $500. So I think I should slice my other thumb and then I can get my ported cylinder head.

So here are the pics:

Before stitches:

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3284/2387263503_f001dd79a8.jpg

After stitches:
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3007/2387263561_0d57483eba.jpg
http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2144/2387263651_47cd51e889.jpg

All bandaged up:

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3267/2388094260_651fa46fed.jpg

Cheese Steak:

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3004/2388094128_8fd56675c5.jpg

you get steak and $500 to hurt yourself at work? i would be so down.

LOL @ cheese steak.

I saw that and was like WTF IS THAT!? I thought it was a messed up appendage.

I should have read before looking at the pics.

The nice thing is that I don’t even have a co-pay because it is covered under workman’s comp.:slight_smile:

good deal…it honstly didnt even look that bad before stitches, but definantly was deep…

I saw that cheese steak and thought it was a severed thumb!

me too!

if my thumbs were filled with sliced steak and cheese, I would sever them and eat them for sure.

…and the way my laptop screen was angled some of the detail was washed out. It seriously freaked me out!

edit: and who the F includes a picture of cheesesteak with their injury pictures?

I probably should have rotated the cheese steak picture 90 degrees to avoid some confusion.

hahahah wtf CHEESE STEAK!!!

this post rules

omg i am so hungry right now

+2

+1

Mmm… Quiznos.

pfft that ain’t gross. when i got my tendon severed in my thumb, that was a little gross. i should dig up the pics from that

+1 on the philly cheese

thats a nice tile floor you got there

is disgusting. ughhhh

Violas in the fall’s for a serious steak n chesse.

Thanks. I put it in myself.

you took your camera to the hospital?

“Hang on Ms Nurse, I need a picture for the internet.”

:tup: Cheesteak