Canadian Man
06-05-2002, 01:19 AM
Well gentlemen and ladies, if you thought the paint in the tank was bad......Ha...read on.
oh, sorry if my typing sucks, you will find out why!
so my day started quite normal, the usual inspection of the tanks and so forth. well the past few days i have been working on the type of bubble eliminator that flame angel has on his/her site. any way this morning it was time to hook it up before work. so the install went well and all but i have two pieces of acrylic jammed in my output sectoion for the tube which i took out. well i needed them back in there so i proceeded. the first one went in well but the second one was tight. so i started to force it and my hand slipped off and banged os something. Well no more than a second later my sump compartments started turning red....
I pulled out my hand and on mr right hand on my ring finger i had cut down to my bone, the cut was 2 inces wide. OH SH*T.
well my wife was home and i walked upstairs and mumbled "um....i cut my self......yea i cut my self real bad and i think i should go to the hospital!"
Well off to Rocyview we went for the usual 4 hour minimum hospital visit. I assumed it wasnt so bad as i could see my tendon was still there and joined, so i assumed that we would just go, get a few stiches and be at work @12:30.
well after 4 hours at the hospital i found out the following. i had almost severed the extensor tendon on my right hand ring finger on the top of my hand. so they had to stich the tendon together then my skin together. then i got this stupid cast of my arm to keep my finger extended...
so i sit here now with five working fingers between my two hands(as most of you should know i was born missing almost all mu fingers on my left hand)taking 20 minutes to type this. AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!
Reef Tanks! LOL
ps.dont expectme to have lengthy responses to any questions for the next 3 weeks.
cheers compadres!
[ 04 June 2002, 22:20: Message edited by: Canadian Man ]
oh, sorry if my typing sucks, you will find out why!
so my day started quite normal, the usual inspection of the tanks and so forth. well the past few days i have been working on the type of bubble eliminator that flame angel has on his/her site. any way this morning it was time to hook it up before work. so the install went well and all but i have two pieces of acrylic jammed in my output sectoion for the tube which i took out. well i needed them back in there so i proceeded. the first one went in well but the second one was tight. so i started to force it and my hand slipped off and banged os something. Well no more than a second later my sump compartments started turning red....
I pulled out my hand and on mr right hand on my ring finger i had cut down to my bone, the cut was 2 inces wide. OH SH*T.
well my wife was home and i walked upstairs and mumbled "um....i cut my self......yea i cut my self real bad and i think i should go to the hospital!"
Well off to Rocyview we went for the usual 4 hour minimum hospital visit. I assumed it wasnt so bad as i could see my tendon was still there and joined, so i assumed that we would just go, get a few stiches and be at work @12:30.
well after 4 hours at the hospital i found out the following. i had almost severed the extensor tendon on my right hand ring finger on the top of my hand. so they had to stich the tendon together then my skin together. then i got this stupid cast of my arm to keep my finger extended...
so i sit here now with five working fingers between my two hands(as most of you should know i was born missing almost all mu fingers on my left hand)taking 20 minutes to type this. AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!
Reef Tanks! LOL
ps.dont expectme to have lengthy responses to any questions for the next 3 weeks.
cheers compadres!
[ 04 June 2002, 22:20: Message edited by: Canadian Man ]