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- From: nolan@twg.com (Nolan Hinshaw)
- Subject: Re: Broken hand peeve
- Message-ID: <1992Nov16.221210.18513@twg.com>
- Lines: 32
- Sender: news@twg.com (USENET News System)
- Reply-To: nolan@twg.com
- Organization: Clinic for the Cerebrally Challenged
- References: <1992Nov16.172704.1522@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu>
- Date: Mon, 16 Nov 1992 22:12:10 GMT
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- In article <1992Nov16.172704.1522@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu>, bberbeni@nyx.cs.du.edu (Bill Berbenich) writes:
- [injury story deleted]
- |>Anybody else here ever hurt their widdle hand like that? An impact
- |>injury, I mean? Ow!
- One fine summer day, five days before the start of my senior year in high
- school, (many years ago) I dropped a verrrrry heavy piece of equipment on my
- left great toe. The impact split the toe as if it were a grape, popped the
- nail off (quite cleanly, right at the cuticle) and broke the last bone
- lengthwise about halfway down. I bled a bit (gotta clean out those foul germs
- and cetera). The pain was juuuust bearable without OTC analgesics. The family
- doctor said it would have hurt worse if the nail hadn't come off - pressure
- buildup underneath and all that.
-
- Details of the injurious hardware, for the nerdly - hit N now if you don't
- care
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- The location was the family's equipment rental agency. We had several
- industrial tractors which had trailer hitches on the rear-mounted Fresno
- scrapers and used these tractors as tugs to move wheel-mounted equipment
- around the yard. I was hooking up a sturdy 85CFM rotary air compressor (Leroi,
- a fine brand if ever there were one); I was pullllllling it toward the ball on
- the Fresno, and it was going the other way. The tongue was made of channel
- iron about 9 inches deep; the bottom front corner of the tongue caugnt my toe
- right at the base of the nail! The grape analogy describes the way the flesh
- of the toe looked immediately after the impact
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- Nolan "Man enough to do woman's work" Hinshaw
- Internet: nolan@twg.com Dingalingnet: (415)962-7197
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