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Date Posted: 06:35:15 04/22/09 Wed
Author: Blazer (Darlene P.)
Subject: OT Calling Patty !

Hi Patty,
Thought I saw a post where a Patty cut her Thumb! Lost the post wondered if it was you? Hope it is better soon! Blazer (Darlene P.)

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[> Re: OT Calling Patty ! -- julie, 11:39:21 04/22/09 Wed [1]

Yes it was our Patty ! Hows it going ? I opened a can of cat food and got 4 stitches and you do miss your thumb.
I do hope your better too!

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Re: OT Calling Patty ! -- Patty, 13:10:18 04/22/09 Wed [1]

Yep, it was me! I mentioned it on Julie's crafts picture post because I kept messing up with the typing.

The hamburger I buy comes in a tube, like cookie dough, with metal clamps on the ends. To open it, I stab it with a knife and slit the plastic wrapper to the other end, then turn out the meat into my skillet to cook.

Sunday night, I went to open one, held the pkg on the counter with my left hand, stabbed at it with a new, cheap, although sharp, paring knife. It didn't puncture the plastic wrapper, but slid off the side of the pkg, stabbed my thumb and cut a curve about 3/4" long on the side of my thumb, the part towards your index finger. It's right where you grip things to pick them up, just lower than my thumbnail. MAN, it HURT!!! I grabbed my thumb with the rest of my fingers and ran to the sink. It bled a lot on the paper towel I got. We were trying to decide if I should go to the ER for stitches. I didn't want to, so I just wrapped a Band-Aid around it. It bled a little on it, but stopped after a little bit. I opened it up later, carefully rinsed it off, put Polysporin (I'm allergic to Neosporin) and a fresh Band-Aid over it. I have been getting a shower and washing and drying my hair with a rubber glove on. Oh, that's fun!!! When I'm all done, I put new medicine and a new Band-Aid on. We also bought dishwashing gloves, so I can keep it out of the dirty dish water. (Darn them for making such a thing! LOL)

My husband was trying to help me finish supper and snipped his finger with my kitchen shears a few minutes later, but his is not nearly as bad as mine. I told him, luckily, there were TWO pair of dishwashing gloves in that pkg!!! LOL!!! We decided we should have gotten out to eat that night!

This isn't the first time I've really cut/hurt this thumb, though. When I was about 2 yrs old, I was playing outside at my Grandma's. If you are older, you may remember the wheel pulley on the old water pumps on farms, that pumped water into the houses. I had my hand in the wheel when the pump came on. It cut the same thumb, partially off, almost in the same area and the tip of my ring finger off. My Dad was gone fishing at the time, so my Mom and an Uncle took me in the car about 30 miles to a Muskogee, OK hospital. Mom said I was screaming (well, no doubt!) and hitting the top of the car for the entire 30 miles! Bet that was a fun, stress-free 30 miles, huh? I had to have my thumb sewn back on near the bottom of my nail and had to have a skin graft from the palm of my hand to have a fingertip on my ring finger. They were very good, medically, at that time, believe it or not, because I have had no problem using either finger since then. They do look a little different than my right hand's fingers, but not much. If I didn't tell you, you wouldn't even notice there was a difference.

The next craft class is pop can wind spinners. We cut the aluminum pop cans and make into wind spinners. I'm not sure how much I can do or SHOULD DO with that, considering my current record! LOL!!! I made a couple last week at my Mom's before this happened and there is STABBING that goes on to cut the top off the cans. Not sure I should be doing that right now. LOL!!! I told Mom that I could still help VERBALLY, at the class, but not sure how much I can do of the demonstration part. I know there's a part or 2 of it that I can NOT do right now. Oh, well, take it or leave it. When you can't, you can't! Another class we're planning involves old, rusty barbed wire!!! Maybe I'd better sit out for a while! LOL!!!

So, thank you Darlene and Julie for your concern.
Patty

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[> Re: OT Calling Patty ! -- Bernadette, 04:12:52 04/24/09 Fri [1]

Patty, nearly fainted here reading your post.
Sounds rather bad. 3/4 inch probably did need stitches to help heal quicker and prevent infection. Hope it wasn't too deep. Have you had a tetnus booster recently?
Look after that thumb, don't do too much. Remember pressure causes pain and constant pain is the pits.
If you want to get out of washing dishes......wrap your hand in a face washer, or a hand towel if there are kids around (because with children if you are able to get out of bed then there is not too much wrong with you)using your longest and widest bandage then place your arm in a sling. Make sure you go into another room, away from the family, to unwrap your chocolate bars that need 2 hands.

Bernadette

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[> Re: OT Calling Patty ! -- Huskerfan, 11:50:47 04/24/09 Fri [1]

Ok I am sorry to hear your thumb was in the wrong place at the wrong time. I do not use a knife on those packages of hamburger. I use a scissors. Cut off the end and then slit it up the side. I have a scissors that I only use in the kitchen. Also my DB also cut his finger off in one of those pumps so many years ago. It was hanging by just a piece of skin but took him in and they sewed it back on. It still doesn't look wonderful but he has it. Maybe you should invest in a kitchen scissors.
Linda

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[> Re: OT Calling Patty ! -- wendy, 18:09:29 04/24/09 Fri [1]

I agree with Linda. Kitchen shears are the way to go. I pop mine in the dishwasher opened up after I use them. the hot water cleans and sanitizes them. Please take care of your thumb. don't do too many dishes, either. lOL

wendy

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Re: OT Calling Patty ! -- Patty, 20:52:55 04/24/09 Fri [1]

Oh, so sorry, Bernadette! Didn't mean to make you woosy! After your question about the tetanus shot, I did call the Dr's this morning to check to see when I got my last one. Sit down...are you ready for this? It was 1980!!! I did think of that time and I know exactly what I did to cause me to get it that time, but I didn't know if I'd gotten one or more since then, you know, just given to me some time when I was at the Dr's, like with a check-up or something.

So, I got back about 3 hrs ago from getting a tetanus shot. My husband and I have been discussing where we could list at home our shots, like a tetanus shot, where we could find it easily without having to call the Dr's. Our kids' (well, they're almost 21 and 23) are listed on their immunization records. We decided to write ours on the outside of our medical file folders in our important papers file cabinet. Our receipt from the Dr's goes in it, anyway. I have already put today's receipt in mine and written my tetanus shot down on the outside! So I should get a gold star because it's already done! LOL!!!

I'll have to remember that little "get out of washing dishes" trick...sounds like you have experience in that area! LOL!!!

Linda, I do have some of those kitchen scissors (I call them kitchen shears) and that's what my husband cut his finger with a little bit later than I cut myself with the knife! I hadn't thought of using them on the hamburger tubes. Good idea! I'll probably try that next time! Thanks for the idea!

Thanks for your concern, too!
Patty

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Re: OT Calling Patty ! -- Patty, 21:02:57 04/24/09 Fri [1]

Thank you, too, Wendy! I have been writing that above posting for about 2 1/2 hrs and hadn't seen that you had posted, too. There has been so much going on here in the last several hrs, that I couldn't finish it when I started it. I've had a million phone calls and people interrupting me, for this or that, that I just minused it to the bottom of the page to finish as soon as I could, which is now.

Putting the kitchen shears/scissors in the dishwasher does sound like it would clean and sanitize them. I wouldn't have thought of that either! With the little 2 yr old great-niece being here the last 2 days, the most I can think of is the Elmo movie and his blanket problems! I slept only about 2 hrs Wed night before she was here yesterday, so I was tired even before she got here yesterday morning! I didn't have much trouble sleeping last night, though, and probably won't tonight!
Again, thank you, too!
Patty

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[> Re: OT Calling Patty ! -- Norma, 18:11:42 04/25/09 Sat [1]

Patty, hope you are feeling much better by now. I just had to let you know...... I uae the black kitchen shears from dollar general to cut popcan tops off with, split them down the side, cut off the bottom and then put them through my Xyron sticker maker and put them on the small sheets of fun foam to die cut them with my Sizzex machine. Works great to cut with those shears and takes a lot of worry out of stabbing the can. They are not expensive so can be used for other crafting also. Take care of the thumb and other body parts... Stabbing is hard on them, but, guess you found that out by now. Norma

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