On Wed, 09 Sep 2009 16:58:17 -0400, the infamous Wes
scrawled the following:

Larry Jaques wrote:

Now it's back to icing the right forefinger, which was mashed by a
piece of flagstone this morning during a brief drizzling rain which
wasn't due until 4-6pm this evening. A 30lb stone slipped from one
hand and fell like a lead leaf, hiting the other like a hammer on the
next stone. DAMN, that hurts!


I know the feeling. My left index finger took a hit when I was hammering on a breaker bar
and the oversized wood workers mallet (looks like half a rolling pin) caught the edge of
the fender just enough to deflect my aim from the end of my breaker bar to my hand that
WAS going to be in the clear.

Ouch! I use a Shop Fox urethane mallet. NICE! My wrists thank me.
http://www.amazon.com/Shop-Fox-oz-No.../dp/B0006618PO
I'd have used a dead blow on the breaker, though. How's the fender?
titter


Cascading waves of pain with reverberation. I thought the finger was broken. Another
couple days and I'll be able to make a fist again.

So, I can say, "I feel your pain" with a straight face.

4 days later it still hurts like hell, but the swelling is going down
and the skin on the top is starting to come up as it heals. I'm still
hoping the nail bed wasn't harmed. The deck/rails/metal cover demo
I'm doing on Friday ought to be interesting. I'll pad the hell out of
it and wear 2 gloves, at least on that hand. Luckily, tearing things
down doesn't take nearly the finess that building 'em requires, so
I'll have an extra week for it to heal.

It sure hurts worse than it looks.

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