Hi All
I am pretty careful around the shop and far and the chips / shavings etc .
About a week ago I felt a sliver go into my right thumb. ( OUCH and )*&#)!*!!+()_ !!!!! and all that )
I see what I think is it so I first try a really good sharp pair of tweezers , NO LUCK
SO I squeeze and push with all my might to maybe pop out out a bit . ( No Go )
SOOOO now I sterilize a very sharp pin over an alcohol flame ( leaves no soot . )
I dig and pick and all that no go ,
I put some drawing salve on it over night , in morning start all over ( No Go ) so I have a lady who was a nurse that don't care how much you scream as she digs and searches . Nothing ., By this time it's Tue . after labor day . it is hurting like he-l. so on Wed I get in to see the local family doc , he looks and send me for X Ray . There is a about a .011 -012 thousandth diam sliver that is 3/8 long that might be embedded into bone or cartilage !!!.
He don't want to slice it open and says DON'T SQUEEZE ON IT ANYMORE YOU COULD BREAK IT IN 1/2 and make things worse .
SO today I have an appointment with a Orthopedic Hand Surgeon and he will have to cut and weather or not he can do it in the office or in the hospital as out patient he will decide when he See's the X Ray etc .
I still have no real idea what I was doing when I got it ,
The sliver is not wood or glass it is metal but not sure what kind .
X Ray nurse trying to be funny said why don't we just pop you into the strongest MRI we have and set it on HI !!!
So it looks like a simple splinter is turning into a $ 2,000 - $ 5,000 nightmare .
I thought about just getting a new X acto knife heating it up and numbing the finger with ice and then doing my own cutting !!! hahahahah.
JerryL
I am pretty careful around the shop and far and the chips / shavings etc .
About a week ago I felt a sliver go into my right thumb. ( OUCH and )*&#)!*!!+()_ !!!!! and all that )
I see what I think is it so I first try a really good sharp pair of tweezers , NO LUCK
SO I squeeze and push with all my might to maybe pop out out a bit . ( No Go )
SOOOO now I sterilize a very sharp pin over an alcohol flame ( leaves no soot . )
I dig and pick and all that no go ,
I put some drawing salve on it over night , in morning start all over ( No Go ) so I have a lady who was a nurse that don't care how much you scream as she digs and searches . Nothing ., By this time it's Tue . after labor day . it is hurting like he-l. so on Wed I get in to see the local family doc , he looks and send me for X Ray . There is a about a .011 -012 thousandth diam sliver that is 3/8 long that might be embedded into bone or cartilage !!!.
He don't want to slice it open and says DON'T SQUEEZE ON IT ANYMORE YOU COULD BREAK IT IN 1/2 and make things worse .
SO today I have an appointment with a Orthopedic Hand Surgeon and he will have to cut and weather or not he can do it in the office or in the hospital as out patient he will decide when he See's the X Ray etc .
I still have no real idea what I was doing when I got it ,
The sliver is not wood or glass it is metal but not sure what kind .
X Ray nurse trying to be funny said why don't we just pop you into the strongest MRI we have and set it on HI !!!
So it looks like a simple splinter is turning into a $ 2,000 - $ 5,000 nightmare .
I thought about just getting a new X acto knife heating it up and numbing the finger with ice and then doing my own cutting !!! hahahahah.
JerryL
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