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Last Thursday January 31st I was at work using a palm router to rout out foam for shadowboxing purposes. While reaching up to turn it off and laying it down, it slipped and my left thumb went into the spinning router bit.
I immediately grabbed a bunch of paper towels and ran to the bathroom to try and rinse out some of the foam. Told a coworker to get my supervisor who took me to the er. There they cleaned it up.
They also took an xray with a cool portable wheeled xray machine. I cut it down to the bone and doctor says I have a tiny fracture in it.
After that they numbed it and did the good cleanup. Thank goodness for lidocaine injections.
They then wrapped it up real well. I got a tetanus shot and antibiotic butt shot and drove the 43 miles from ogden to taylorsville utah. Then I had to wait til Monday to see the hand specialist. All I have been taking is 800mg ibuprofen and 500mg cephalexin (antibiotic) every 8hrs with occasional tylenol.
He unwrapped it and looked at it. I still have full feeling, full movement, didn't hit any tendons, and I'm not going to have any nail after surgery on Thursday. I currently have 20% or less of the nail left. The doctor said he might do a skin flap from the bottom side of my pointer finger and have them sewn together for 2 weeks and then seperate them and do a skin graft on my pointer finger. That is to fill in the hole on the top of my thumb and because a basic skin graft might not stick to the exposed bone and it would leave a sunken area. Yay! (sarcasm).
Drew on my right thumb basically all that is gone. So basically mirror image of my left thumb.
All getting paid for by workers comp.
So note to all. Be careful in whatever you do. You might lose a nail... permanently.
Will respond later with updates as things progress.
Last Thursday January 31st I was at work using a palm router to rout out foam for shadowboxing purposes. While reaching up to turn it off and laying it down, it slipped and my left thumb went into the spinning router bit.
I immediately grabbed a bunch of paper towels and ran to the bathroom to try and rinse out some of the foam. Told a coworker to get my supervisor who took me to the er. There they cleaned it up.
They also took an xray with a cool portable wheeled xray machine. I cut it down to the bone and doctor says I have a tiny fracture in it.
After that they numbed it and did the good cleanup. Thank goodness for lidocaine injections.
They then wrapped it up real well. I got a tetanus shot and antibiotic butt shot and drove the 43 miles from ogden to taylorsville utah. Then I had to wait til Monday to see the hand specialist. All I have been taking is 800mg ibuprofen and 500mg cephalexin (antibiotic) every 8hrs with occasional tylenol.
He unwrapped it and looked at it. I still have full feeling, full movement, didn't hit any tendons, and I'm not going to have any nail after surgery on Thursday. I currently have 20% or less of the nail left. The doctor said he might do a skin flap from the bottom side of my pointer finger and have them sewn together for 2 weeks and then seperate them and do a skin graft on my pointer finger. That is to fill in the hole on the top of my thumb and because a basic skin graft might not stick to the exposed bone and it would leave a sunken area. Yay! (sarcasm).
Drew on my right thumb basically all that is gone. So basically mirror image of my left thumb.
All getting paid for by workers comp.
So note to all. Be careful in whatever you do. You might lose a nail... permanently.
Will respond later with updates as things progress.
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