Well not your typical discount story, I get 10% off On what you ask ? Why 10% off manicures of course ?!? But how ?? Kids, I put my finger in a place I shouldn’t have and now I have 9, not 10 fingers – 90% of my finger nails are left, 10% off. Seriously though this is how I lost my finger and some weight, the weight being my finger.

Milwaukee 18 volt cordless circular saw, that is the reason that I shortened my left index finger just below my first knuckle 👇🏻

I can still hear the sound the saw makes, it made a very distinctive ZING sound. By now I am a certified carpenter. I guess this was my initiation? It was 1130 pm on a brutally cold Friday night, I was in the garage building cabinets I had to install Saturday morning at 1030 am in an office building. My Evil ex wife ( if your thinking that’s not very nice read my first blog, you will see ) up stairs sleeping in our bed snuggling our dog. Me, at this point haven’t slept in over 36 hrs. More like a functioning zombie than a carpenter. I kept thinking I’m almost done, almost done then I can go to bed for a bit. I needed saw horses and they were in my truck, on the street in the bone chilling blowing snow. I thought to my self I should really get them, but I noticed some Rubbermaid trash cans in the corner. PERFECT ! Now I can stay warm, so I set 2 cans up and puta ¾ sheet of plywood on top. VOILA! My work bench . Below is a pic of the similar trash can that caused my finger trimming

I’m about 1 hour from being finished and I could get some sleep for 4 hours 😴😴 Just doing some rough cuts for French cleats and a trash can squishes and shoots out! I fall Milwaukee saw in my right hand . I stand up, rubbing my shoulder because I fell on it and it was sore.

Then I notice blood on the floor ? Blood on the floor, then some on the ceiling ? I start checking my hands. Fuck, I’m a finger short !

I look for my finger, no where to be found ? I wake my ex, her lazy ass was sleeping and she has to drive me to the hospital. One last look for my finger annndddd it was in the saw, I spin the saw blade manually with my other hand and my little digit falls to the floor. Grab some ice and off we go. It was about 5 am , on our way to the hospital she drove the speed limit and stopped at red lights. WTF!?! DRIVE !! I said, don’t worry about laws it’s 5 am .

At the hospital, because of the location and the size reattachment would have ended in failure and having it amputated at a later date. So I said nope don’t reattach it. Well In order to sew me up they had to shorten the bone to get enough skin to flap over the tip. How did they do that ? Side cutters ... looked like the same pair I have at home in my tool box. They would scrape away at it, pull my skin to see if it was enough. Nope need more bone cut. Try it again, yep all good sewn up an on my way !

So because of that saw ! no wait. Because of that trash can ! no wait . BECAUSE I tried to take a short cut , be lazy and because I didn’t sleep for over 36 hours. That is the reason I lost a finger. I say this all the time :

Short cuts,

will get you cut

A funny side note, remember that cabin that my future in-laws had. Well Lee’s dad (Larry) was putting in a door strike plate, he didn’t have a chisel so he used a Olfa knife to cut the door frame to put the strike in and slipped and cut his thumb almost clean off. A few days later him and I are out at the cabin, his thumb not movable and my finger wrapped up. We are out there with a back hoe trenching in the power line from the temp pole to the cabin.

His thumb took a year or more before he was back to some what normal . I was back at work in a week . Yes I installed those cabinets and the blood cleaned up nice 🩸

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