The Old Folks Home

[chickadoodles]

Thanks Bruce me first thing before coffee is not nice to play
have to let it cick in or kick

Penny, I'm the same way.

 

[microchick]

@chickadoodles...the 23rd as two days ago? Dang girl! I don't think I wished you a....

Or as my dear husband likes to call it, Happy Cake with Fire Day!

 

[getaclue]

Chicka, Happy Birthday!

 

[Beer can]

About 10 years ago I was dropping storm windows down at our home in Illinois when one of the sash cords broke the moment I unlocked the casement window. The upper window came down like a guillotine and crushed/cleaved the little finger on my right hand between the window frame and the lock mechanism on the bottom window. I jerked my hand back reflexively at the pain which was well.....BAD! And looked at my finger. To my horror the tip of my little finger was gone, along with the top of the nail joint. The nail and the tissue under it was hanging from the knuckle by a strand of tissue and the tip of my finger was crushed You could see the bone. DH heard me cry out and came running. He said I was as white as a sheet and made me sit down while he ran for a clean towel and a bottle of pain pills.

The poor man had just had sinus surgery the day before but was popping his pain medicine in my mouth, giving me drinks of water and ordering me to swallow. One look at my finger or what was left of it and he was packing me in the car and driving me to Galesburg and the ER. They took an xray of my hand, thought the tip was broken, cut off the destroyed tissue, sewed the tip back together as best they could and sent me home with an rx for pain meds. Poor DH was comforting me with packing strings hanging out of his nose. We were a pair, that was for sure.

The doc said the nail might or might not grow back. Surprisingly, it did. It took about three months and it didn't grow back 'normal' but by golly I have a nail there which was amazing. The tip of the finger is bulbous and very sensitive to pressure. They called it a diagonal amputation and the doc told me that a millimetre more and he would have been doing an amputation of the tip end of the finger. I was lucky. And the human body is amazing on what it can repair.

I have a sick Fayoumi hen tonight. She is very thin, weak. Alert but won't eat. She has never been a strong hen but I hate to see her go. Especially when I don't know what is wrong with her. Fayoumis don't get Marek's and are resistant to parasites. I suspect something reproductive but no swelling/water belly. Sigh. Sometimes you just wish they could talk to you.

I've lost many finger nails working in bluestone quarry smashing them. Worse I ever did though had a vehicle that would static electric shock you bad every time you shut the door. So I got in the habit of shutting it with the inside handle. Didn't get my hand out of they way once, caught two fingers. Screamed and yanked a couple times before I realized I had to open the door . Blackened and lost two nails. One never grew back right, never reattached all the way, big hollow spot under it.

 

[drumstick diva]

STATIC SHOCK is no friend of mine. For some reason my son (very young) and I (not) were standing near the tv. We both reached for the tv ( for???reasons) and you could see sparks(like lightning) jump between our hands. That spooked both of us.

I walked into the grocery store and encountered a lady holding a tray of dessert samples, of course I reached for one. That zotz static shock knocked the tray out of her hands.

I hate winter when grocery shopping, anything I touch gives me quite a shock. Usually try to con someone else into getting the product and dropping it into my cart. I've been told I have an electrifying personality - that's not what I want.

 

[Beer can]

Funniest thing I ever saw at work
Years ago. Couple old old guys helping each other hook up a big hose in the back to wash one of their milk tankers fighting with it.
One had a hand the fingers didn't move, like a claw hand. Lost his fingers in a barn cleaner were reattached but couldn't move them. The other missing most his fingers, said he lost them working at a dairy plant when he was young, before OSHA, put his hand where it shouldn't be on a butter press. Laughed about it, said "you should have seen all those old ladies scream"
They caught me laughing at them struggling, I apologized, they said after they got the hose hooked up my a#$ was grass...
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They worked every day, wish the generation today had as much gumption and tenacity as they did.

 

[pennyJo1960]

I hate spiders! I will jump out of a running car or what ever to get away from one! And I did!

My ex husband lost all but 3 fingers when a blow mold injection machine he was repairing closed with out warning while his fingers were inside. It crushed them flat.
They tried to save them. Then took the first half then after a year they had to take the whole fingers. He has two thumbs and one finger left.
He had to retire.

My birthday was the 23rd. It was pretty warm here. lol Summers in the deep south!
Go figure!

Happy birthday missed this one didn't I

 

[pennyJo1960]

My uncles never gave a hoot about the loss of their fingers ...

 

[chickadoodles]

Thank you all for the birthday wishes. For once I thought I was going to be a year older. Lol I thought I was going to be 60. Lol Dh told me no, I was only 59.
I don’t keep up with how old I am. Never have. Lol

 

[pennyJo1960]

Think I am also seem to recall I am 60's child I think I turn 60 this year
oops oh well still alive so we are all good huh