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08-23-2012, 11:40 AM
ncnat

May not

be fishing for awhile. Tore my finger up yesterday with a dremil tool. Chipped the bone, cut an artery and the nerve. Going Monday to a hand specialist to see about repairing the damage. Admin not real happy with me because I declined light duty. I just can't sit in an office 9-5 five days in a row.
08-23-2012, 11:58 AM
Mcslabs

Wish you well in your recovery admire the fact you wouldn't accept light duty it is great to see there are still a few men left in the world
08-23-2012, 04:15 PM
quikcarl61

Get well soon nat, we need to see how to catch fish
08-23-2012, 04:42 PM
longline

Ouch...That's gotta hurt. I know a little about nerve pain. Them nerves are touchy! And cut an artery too? What you got again yer finger?

I'm with you on the "light duty". I'm not much on sitting around the office...tick tock..tick tock. Slowest way to spend a day.

Get well soon!
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08-27-2012, 03:07 PM
ncnat

Doc says no surgery until finger is healed and it looks like surgery won't be neccessary since I got decent feeling in finger. Go back in two weeks for a check up. I get to use my finger now and I don't need that stupid splint that keeps getting in the way.
08-27-2012, 07:46 PM
anchorpuller

I thought I told you NOT to use that thing for a beer opener, dangit! Glad to hear surgery won't be necessary and that you have decent feeling in that finger. An arterial cut can be BAD news, dude! How did you get the bleeding to stop?
08-28-2012, 06:07 AM
ncnat

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Originally Posted by anchorpuller

I thought I told you NOT to use that thing for a beer opener, dangit! Glad to hear surgery won't be necessary and that you have decent feeling in that finger. An arterial cut can be BAD news, dude! How did you get the bleeding to stop?

ER Doc said it was a small artery. Had the bleeding stopped in 10 minutes.
08-28-2012, 09:53 AM
poppop

Nat, thats not your trigger finger is it?
08-28-2012, 11:26 AM
ncnat

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Originally Posted by poppop

Nat, thats not your trigger finger is it?

Wrong finger and wrong hand. Tried shooting my bow yesterday, deer season is not cancelled.
08-31-2012, 09:03 PM
red

I hope you get better soon and all goes well.
09-10-2012, 11:01 AM
hawkman

Hey nat, how is the damaged digit?
09-13-2012, 05:51 PM
ncnat

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Originally Posted by hawkman

Hey nat, how is the damaged digit?

Went to see the hand specialist yesterday and he wants to operate to try and repair the nerve damage as soon a possible. The soonest I told him he could operate is September 30 after I get back from the Outer Banks, So on October 2 they are going to operate. Then 2-3 weeks of a splint of some kind and no lifting. Then 3 more weeks of light duty. As much as I hate light duty I'm going to have to work so that I don't tear out the stitches that are finer than hair. If I don't work, I'll be hunting and fishing and that ain't light duty.