More armchair milling for a while yet

[jimdad07]

Damn Bob!!! Those are some mean looking fingers. I have broken most of my fingers at one time in my life and a few bones in my hands from a lifestyle that changed dramatically when I met my boss (wife), and I tell you that there is nothing worse when you work with your hands and they are broken. Get well soon.
BTW: My father in law eats fresh ginger root every day and he says it has taken most of his arthritis pain away as well as the pain from his bad hip (the other is fake, replaced at 47), he's 53 now and he says that he has not felt so good since he was a kid. All the pain pills he was on didn't touch it he says, but that ginger root started working after just a couple of days, he no longer takes pain pills.

 

[BobL]

Thanks for all the sympathy guys - tis much appreciated. I've stopped taking the painkillers because they've started making me feel nauseated and wobbly at the knees plus if I take them I can't drink. The pain is now not that bad so I've reverted to plain ice/cold packs and a beer or 3.

 

[Brmorgan]

Bob - found you a car that might make it easier for you to drive over here:

Thinkin' I'd want something a little more "positive" than a V-belt.

 

[gemniii]

Just say NO to tylenol!
My doc put me on 8 pills/day of codeine/tylenol mix.
I complained because of what I read about tylenol.
He said it's safe if you don't take more than 6 a day.
He switched me.

 

[BobL]

Have been off the pain killers for 24 hours and feel much less zombie like than when I was taking them. I'm just applying ice/cold pack wrapped in a towel for about 20 minutes every hour and taking a couple of Advil every 4 hours. Can now type with all bar the middle finger although the ally splints going click-click-click on the key board is a bit irritating. I just hope those tendons reattach themselves.

 

[RPM]

Bob are you still here or are you back home? My wife wants to go to Australia for a holiday and I'm thinking you could need an apprentice to help the milling move along throug the healing process...you know labour in exchange of knowledge.

Heal up soon .... Vitamin I (1000mg) and Tylyenol + a couple of beers ....

 

[Andrew96]

I have to admit. I had to look up a 'goods lift door'. I was waiting to see if anyone asked..but you guys seem to understand how it all happened.
I feel for you Bobl. Many have smashed one finger here and there...even broken one up ...but a handful all at once...geez. Makes my mouth go funny just thinking about it.
I know you might be tired of it already..but a 'goods lift door' is an elevator door? Was it an automated one you got your fingers stuck in? A big heavy manual one? Or do I have it wrong.

 

[Can8ianTimber]

The question I always ask my wife as she is trying to crame pills down my throat is, "is it going to make me better or just make me feel better". If it is just going to make me feel better I will pass on the pills. Less drugs is always better in my book.

 

[rarefish383]

OUCH. Glad to hear you're felling a little better. I have a story that might make you feel a lot better. I work for UPS, and we had this knucklehead that used to work for us. One day he was trying to close the back roll up door on a delivery truck. He got it down a little ways and put all eight fingers on top of one of the pannels and was pulling down. He got it far enough he got his foot up on the handle you normally pull down on. All of a sudden I heard him scream and looked up. What ever was holding the door on the inside broke ,and with all of his weight on the handle, the door slammed shut. All eight fingers were crushed between the pinch points, where the pannels close up when the door is closed. It slammed so fast and hard it locked, and I had to run around to the front of the truck and get the keys, and come back and set him free. Now, you have to picture 50 delivery trucks parked one fist width apart, with the mirrors folded in. I had to run down the "line up" till I found a gap big enough to climb in, and then slide across the seats till I got to the truck he was stuck to. All eight fingertips turned black, I thought he was going to loose them. He came to work the next night, because his attendence was so bad he was on probation, and was afraid he would get fired if he took off.

My wife says I should write a book about this guy, I'm a shop steward, and I've got enough stories about him I probabley could. Like the time he got bit by a Brown Recluse spider, but that's another story, Joe.

 

[Ted J]

A few Aussie beers should dull the pain.

How did the Canadian beers compare, BobL ?

How is soaking his fingers in beer gonna help?


Ted

 

[Ted J]

Bob are you still here or are you back home? My wife wants to go to Australia for a holiday and I'm thinking you could need an apprentice to help the milling move along throug the healing process...you know labour in exchange of knowledge.

Heal up soon .... Vitamin I (1000mg) and Tylyenol + a couple of beers ....

That's so nice, to offer your wife to help Bob out ...... ya know.... with the heat we've been having here..... does she want to come to Texas?

Ted

 

[BobL]

A few Aussie beers should dull the pain.

How did the Canadian beers compare, BobL ?

1) I drink very very few Aussie beers.

Some things I like about beer in Calgary.
1) I'm quite partial to Canadian Unibroue Belgian Style beers and 6 packs o these are quite cheap
2) Access to some US DogFish Head and other strong style beers
3) Reasonable prices for Belgian Beer

 

[RPM]

That's so nice, to offer your wife to help Bob out ...... ya know.... with the heat we've been having here..... does she want to come to Texas?

Ted

LOL .... excellent point and the airfare would be cheaper - I'll run it by her.

 

[Brmorgan]

1) I drink very very few Aussie beers.

Some things I like about beer in Calgary.
1) I'm quite partial to Canadian Unibroue Belgian Style beers and 6 packs o these are quite cheap
2) Access to some US DogFish Head and other strong style beers
3) Reasonable prices for Belgian Beer

Bob, I'm no beer connoisseur, as I believe we discussed when you were here, but how was that Rickard's that you had when we went out for dinner? A lot of my friends love the stuff, or Alexander Keith's or Sleeman Honey Brown.

LOL, never heard of the stuff before, but only in the US could you have a beer named DogFish Head and still have a marketable product on your hands!

 

[gemniii]

BobL
Just be very careful about any alcohol consumption w/ Tylenol or other pain relievers. They do not know the limits and are probably squashing any studies.

The US government had cracked down on science and had deemed a lot of stuff unfundable and unpublishable if it was not kind to big business.

Other than stomach rot I've not found anything against aspirin.

 

[BobL]

BobL
Just be very careful about any alcohol consumption w/ Tylenol or other pain relievers. They do not know the limits and are probably squashing any studies.

Apart from a few advil (Ibuprofen) I took on Sunday I've taken no serious pain killers since 3 pm Saturday. The side effects of taking alcohol with advil are said to be "a prolonged effect of the alcohol" - as far as I'm concerned that's a good thing in my case as I was not driving a car or operating heavy machinery and just stayed home and mainly slept most of the day away.

The US government had cracked down on science and had deemed a lot of stuff unfundable and unpublishable if it was not kind to big business.
Other than stomach rot I've not found anything against aspirin.

I heard that too.

I still can't believe I crushed 4 fingers at 3 pm on Friday and I took no more killer painkillers from 3 pm Saturday and just managed the pain with ice packs and a few advil on Sunday an one ice pack on Monday an nothing today. I put this down to putting ice on the injury within 30 seconds of it happening an and keeping on using ice for 8 hours thereafter.

Ice - is there nothing it cannot do?

 

[BobL]

The incident has now been officially reported to OHS so I can now say what happened. My coworker and I had been waiting all week for a tank of liquid Argon to come in - the suppliers kept saying it had been delivered - but we could not find it anywhere.

Mid-friday afternoon the tank was located in another building about 250 yards away so we went over to get it. The full tank weighs 600 lbs and is quite wide and on a wheeled trolley. On the way over we check doorways and ramps to work out which is the safest way to go. The trolley has a brake but we just wanted to be safe because if the tank gets rolling on its own it is very dangerous.

We picked up the trolley and rolled it towards the regular passenger elevators and then we remember that gas tanks are not permitted to travel in passenger elevator but must be moved via freight elevators. We wheel the tank down the hallway to the freight elevator and inside the elevator. My friend is at the back of the elevator and I was near the door. The lift is very wide and the doors are of the type that close vertically by pulling on thick webbing straps. The inner steel mesh door closes from the top all the way down, and outer door (consisting of two pieces of thick steel plate) closes by pulling the top down halfway while the bottom half of the door comes up to meet it. The outer door will closes automatically when the elevator starts to move if the inner door is closed So I reached up and grab the strap I thought was for the inner door and gave it a good hoike. Unfortunately I had grabbed the one for the outer door and did not see the bottom half of the door coming up to meet the top and the fingers on my left got whammied. Luckily the strap got caught up in the gap other wise I may have mashed them even more and may even have trapped them in between the doors.

At first there was not that much pain (eg not even as much as when I dropped a 2" steel pipe on my big toe last year) but then it started weeping blood around the nails and the fingers looked pretty mashed so I packed plastic bags of ice around my hand and went to local hospital emergency.

 

[TraditionalTool]

The incident has now been officially reported to OHS so I can now say what happened. My coworker and I had been waiting all week for a tank of liquid Argon to come in - the suppliers kept saying it had been delivered - but we could not find it anywhere.

Mid-friday afternoon the tank was located in another building about 250 yards away so we went over to get it. The full tank weighs 600 lbs and is quite wide and on a wheeled trolley. On the way over we check doorways and ramps to work out which is the safest way to go. The trolley has a brake but we just wanted to be safe because If the tank gets rolling on its own it is very dangerous.

We picked up the trolley and rolled it towards the regular passenger elevators and then we remember that gas tanks are not permitted to travel in passenger elevator but must be moved via freight elevators. We wheel the tank down the hallway to the freight elevator and wheeledit inside, My friend is at the back of the elevator and I was near the door. The lift is very wide and the doors are the type that close vertically by pulling on thick webbing straps. The inner steel mesh door closes from the top all the way down, and outer two piece thick steel plate door closes by pulling the top down halfway while the bottom half of the door comes up to meet it. The outer door will closes automatically when the elevator starts to move if the inner door is closed So I reached up and grab the strap I thought was for the inner door and gave it a good hoike. Unfortunately I had grabbed the one for the outer door and did not see the bottom half of the door coming up to meet the top and the fingers on my left got whammied. Luckily the strap got caught up in the gap other wise I may have mashed them even more and may even have trapped them in between the doors.

At first there was not that much pain (eg not even as much as when I dropped a 2" steel pipe on my big toe last year) but then it started weeping blood around the nails and the fingers looked pretty mashed so I packed plastic bags of ice around my hand and went to local hospital emergency.

Geez Bob, I hate to read these kinda stories. Hope you get better soon!

 

[BobL]

Geez Bob, I hate to read these kinda stories. Hope you get better soon!

Thanks TT.

Bob, I'm no beer connoisseur, as I believe we discussed when you were here, but how was that Rickard's that you had when we went out for dinner? A lot of my friends love the stuff, or Alexander Keith's or Sleeman Honey Brown.

Yep - they are all good, especially the Keith's.

LOL, never heard of the stuff before, but only in the US could you have a beer named DogFish Head and still have a marketable product on your hands!

DFH is pretty impressive in my book. Their 18% World Wide Stout is pretty nice as was the 23%.

 

[Ted J]

I thought the outer doors weren't supposed to even close at all until the inner cage door was down? Sounds like a bad design or something...

Hope you get to feeling better.
You might want to try Aleve/naproxen sodium, it's supposed to be less irritating on the stomach, from what I've heard.