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Well...this whole ordeal started about mid afternoon yesterday. I had just gotten out of my classes for the day, and my mom had no work, and my little sister was home cause she was "sick". I had just burned a copy of Leon: The Professional, and my mom and me had wanted to watch it cause its been so many years since we had seen it. About halfway threw the movie my mom decided she needed a smoke break and i was getting pretty hungry since i hadn't eaten yet that day. We had made nachoes the previous night so i thought i would try and finish off the leftover nacho stuff when i hear...BANG BANG BANG on the door. I look and my mom is like (serious face) "DAVID" (thats me) "I cut my finger off"!
At this point in time we are both just staring at each other threw the door, while i'm thinking to myself...shes fucking with me rite? She went to have a smoke and now shes missing a finger? My mom after she had realized i didn't believe her (who would of blamed me) said "NO, DAVID SERIOUSLY I CUT MY FINGER OFF." At this point i see all the blood running from her hand and was just...shit -__-
For some reason my mom and little sister had ZERO idea on what to do besides panic. They were like chickens running around with there heads chopped off, it was ridicules. After about five minutes of me screaming at them to get into the car we managed to head to the ER. Luckily we only live two blocks from the hospital as were there in no time.
After about an hour of waiting in the ER with no word on whats going on the nurse comes saying that my mom would like to speak to me. Walking to countless hallways we finally ended up to where they were keeping my mom. The first thing she says to me was, "hehe...now i don't have to do the dishes. :D" I was just like WTH mom...seriously what....the...hell.
From this point she went on to tell me that when she went out for a smoke she had decided that she wanted to cut some wood into smaller pieces for our fireplace. Needless to say she failed miserably.
Well she got back later that night and apparently she managed to cut threw the bone (hanging by skin) of her middle finger, so they had to remove her finger nail and clean out the cut and reattach the nerves. She also managed to not fully cut threw the bone of her ring finger but she did end up shattering the bone and cutting her finger up pretty good. The doctor managed to successfully reattach her finger and put casts on them.
She should be ok from this and have feeling of her fingers like she had before, and it should only take about a week or so for them to fully heal.
 
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I dont get how that happened though, was she using an axe? Because I've heard of lots of like glancing blows with an axe that can hit your knee/leg, but how can you hit your fingers? (unless she was using a saw which is my guess)
Also good on her for having a positive attitude in a situation like that. Cool mom you got there.
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 I hope she gets well soon
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I'm at a loss for words
How could she cut wood with just one hand, while keeping the other hand on the actual piece of wood? I assume she used an axe of sorts?
Glad she'll be ok though
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Sounds like she was using a hatchet and holding the wood as she cut it (obviously she didn't go to Boy Scouts). GL to her as she heals.
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Damn this sounds like something that happens out of nowhere...And it did. Musta been a heart race out of control. Whenever I start doing dangerous things that I know I can hurt myself in particular ways, all the consequences run through my head "if" something wrong would happen.
Well good thing is she will still be able to have full use of her fingers.
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On January 16 2009 03:19 Divinek wrote:
I dont get how that happened though, was she using an axe? Because I've heard of lots of like glancing blows with an axe that can hit your knee/leg, but how can you hit your fingers? (unless she was using a saw which is my guess)
^This will probably be answered with this \/
On January 16 2009 03:22 minus_human wrote:
while keeping the other hand on the actual piece of wood? I assume she used an axe of sorts?
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Belgium6775 Posts
You didnt put the finger & hand in ice?
and ... fully heal in a week? you're kidding right
she chopped off a finger and shattered another one...
I hope she'll be fine. My sister had this in a less serious degree and it was quite annoying for a few months, numbness etc.
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well..im not entirely sure how it happened but it was an axe and i have no idea why she was trying to swing an axe with one hand let alone her left hand (right handed) After i asked her what she did it had bad news written ALLLLL over it
yeah a week according to the doctor O_O i was surprised to hear that as well
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What the... how in the world do you do that? I can't even imagine... axes make me nervous, but given that both of your hands should be on the axe, I never worried about my fingers.
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Valhalla18444 Posts
hahahah wow, that's brutal
condolences, stalinrush's mom! at least she has a sense of humor about it
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i am loss for words also.
i hope my mom dont do stupid shits like that.
and i am too lazy to do dishes.
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Canada9720 Posts
lmao. i know it's not really funny, but your mother's reaction is pretty amusing.
i'm glad she's ok, hopefully she regains full use of her hand
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haha  its ok if you guys think its funny i think its kind of funny myself (not at the time though) im constantly bringing it up ;p
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It's good to hear she's ok. But on the lighter side of news, when I saw the title I thought you were talking about MoM
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rofl How much wood could a woodchuck chuck if a woodchuck could chuck wood?
They were like chickens running around with there heads chopped off
you have to actually see that to fully apriciate the description. :DDD
ah, and I hate doing dishes too, good call there - it'd chop my finger off anyday to avoid it! xD
One week? wtf that's like, impossible. Even if it was a really clean cut, I'd assume it'd take more. And I can't immagine she would be able to use the finger as before, if she cut the tendons?
What did the doctor say about that?
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i don't see what's so confusing about her getting her hand involved. do you have some secret way of chopping firewood that I'm not aware of? one hand on the piece of wood to keep it from falling over, other on the axe.. obviously don't hit your hand though. it's how me & my family have always done it . . and there have been no accidents, but then again, we weren't using our non-dominant hand on the axe, that seems silly..
one week? i dont know much about medicine but wouldn't that require a wolverine gene of sorts
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Bosnia-Herzegovina1437 Posts
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one week? i dont know much about medicine but wouldn't that require a wolverine gene of sorts
damn you figured out our secret :O lol j/k...or am i O_O but yeah apparently when i was talking to my mom last night she was completely out of it (bad drug taker) and shes just going back to the doctor in a week maybe to get it off or just to check on it not entirely sure
about the cutting the wood that really all the info i know and i imagine if she was doing it any way even close to being rite this wouldn't of happened
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LOL, @ haha I don't have to do the dishes.
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On January 16 2009 04:23 JeeJee wrote:
i don't see what's so confusing about her getting her hand involved. do you have some secret way of chopping firewood that I'm not aware of? one hand on the piece of wood to keep it from falling over, other on the axe.. obviously don't hit your hand though. it's how me & my family have always done it . . and there have been no accidents, but then again, we weren't using our non-dominant hand on the axe, that seems silly..
one week? i dont know much about medicine but wouldn't that require a wolverine gene of sorts
I think the standard wood-chopping-axe technique is two hands on the handle, raise it over your head and bring it down like hell. Why would it fall over?
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Be happy that you got a good relationship with her at least.
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I think the standard wood-chopping-axe technique is two hands on the handle, raise it over your head and bring it down like hell. Why would it fall over?
Thats how i would do it but im a brute and like to just do things with brute force 
and Klockan3 yes...im glade i have a good relationship with her but im just ez to get along with so i dont have bad relationships
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i hope she gets better soon
fixing the nerves.. omg
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I'm glad she cracked a joke about it and relieved to hear she'll be OK.
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United States17042 Posts
I'm glad to hear that she'll be okay. that should teach her to be more careful (and hopefully learn how to chop wood).
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On January 16 2009 05:02 Divinek wrote:Show nested quote +On January 16 2009 04:23 JeeJee wrote:
i don't see what's so confusing about her getting her hand involved. do you have some secret way of chopping firewood that I'm not aware of? one hand on the piece of wood to keep it from falling over, other on the axe.. obviously don't hit your hand though. it's how me & my family have always done it . . and there have been no accidents, but then again, we weren't using our non-dominant hand on the axe, that seems silly..
one week? i dont know much about medicine but wouldn't that require a wolverine gene of sorts I think the standard wood-chopping-axe technique is two hands on the handle, raise it over your head and bring it down like hell. Why would it fall over?
Yeah i've never heard of anyone chopping wood with 1 hand on the actual piece of wood, that's like asking to get your fingers owned. However the "standard" way isn't really all that safe, my friend totally missed the piece of wood once and slammed the axe right into his leg, clumsy but possible ;D
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On January 16 2009 03:15 StalinRusH wrote:
For some reason my mom and little sister had ZERO idea on what to do besides panic. They were like chickens running around with there heads fingers chopped off, it was ridicules.
Fixed. 
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my dad cut off his finger when he was a kid in this exact same way, but got it reattached. now his middle finger is shorter than his index finger. :O
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the few times I chopped wood, I would put the wood on a huge other piece of wood and take the axe with both hands and swinging it with the back muscles.
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On January 16 2009 03:15 StalinRusH wrote:
The first thing she says to me was, "hehe...now i don't have to do the dishes. :D"
lol, this is funny! =P
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hahah shit man!
damn glad everything is ok.
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WHY was she cutting with her weak hand?
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i have no idea...obviously didnt think it threw 
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United States3573 Posts
Lol that's an epic fail if I've ever heard one.
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Wow.. your title basically describes it all.
Epic fail.
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ROFL i don't have to do the dishes. your mom sounds like an awesome person
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