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I think God or whoever was trying to tell me something, i stopped working in the woodshop over 3 years ago ;)
I am a programmer and webmaster these days. No danger there :)
Creeper, I know the pain of novacaine in the thumb. When i was in 9th grade, we were standing around in gym class waiting for the coach to finish chewing out a girl for swearing. We were also waiting for him to blow the whistle so we could start lifting weights.
Is anyone familiar with the thing on an Atlas machine for doing curls? it has the plates set up on 2 poles, and collars around the poles to keep them in place. I had my hand on one of the poles, because no one was supposed to be fucking lifting yet! Then, the dumb fuck standing next to me pulled up on the handle. The weights came up, and my thumb got pinched in between the collar and pole.
I yelled "SHIT! Put the fucking weight down!" he dropped it and stood back, and this poor girl looked at me and said "Werent you listening?", referrring to the coach yelling at someone else for swearing. I held up my hand and showed her. there was a 2 inch tear on my right thumb, it was completely gaping open and purple blood was welling up in it.
I didnt say a word to anyone, i just walked out and headed to the nurse's office as fast as i could.
When i got there, she asked what happened, and when i took my hand off my thumb to show her, enough blood hit the ground to make an audible splash. I turned sheet white and immediately went into shock (the only time ever. boy did it suck....)
At any rate, i eventually got taken to the hospital. when they got prepared to clean it (here is where i feel for you creeper...) i got 3 injections in my thumb:
one in the meat in the back, one directly into the joint where it meets the hand, and one right through the tendon on the inside of the thumb.
I never made a sound, but my knuckles on my left hand turned white i was gripping the bar on the bed so hard. I got to watch as the doctor cleaned it with saline solution. he was able to fit an inch past the head of the swab inside my damn thumb.
Later, i was given a tetanus shot in my arm, but they didnt wait for it to thaw, so i had a fucking marble-sized bump on my arm when they were done of jelled shot waiting to melt and get absorbed.
The upside was that my parent stook me out to lunch when the whole thing was done. I was still in my crappy, used for 3 days unwashed gym clothes.
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