Be careful out there!!

[manyletters]

How many times do you say "It won't happen to me" !!!  

Well crap happens sometimes even on the best of days...2nd last day of the season and my son, a hunting buddy and I are giving it our best and I knock down a bull moose...a rifle story...but enough of that...I start gutting it and slip with the knife and stab my left hand, blood spurts, we cut one of the sleeves off my t-shirt and bandage/tourniquet it up and finish the moose up    ...get back to camp, hang it up and then it is off to the nearest hospital!!Two docs on staff on a Sunday...that is a bonus...only an inch long cut but I severed my thumb tendon on my bow hand!! Cannot move my thumb...crap again...they set me up with a specialist appt at home...bigger hospital....get there yesterday morning and must have hit the express service line  I was in and out of there in an hour with a reattached tendon, 12 stiches in my hand and a splint/cast on for 6 weeks...so much for an early start to the indoor target season.    

So a lesson is learnt I hope...take it easy and go slow!!

[Mudd]

Thanks for sharing because it's a great reminder. I'm sorry that it happened. I am glad it's gonna get better.
God bless,Mudd

[manyletters]

All it takes is a split second of lack of focus and bingo...your in a pickle!!

[MnFn]

Same thing happened to one of my employees a few years ago. Only difference was he was skinning a buck. Cut the tendon to his thumb. He is a very experienced hunter as well. So it is a good reminder to all us. One second of not paying attention and it COULD happen to anyone of us, too.

Hope you have a full and speedy recovery!

[wingnut]

Dang it Dennis!!

Are we going to have to take sharp things away from you. . . again?

LOL

MIke

[Tom Leemans]

Dennis,
Just an FYI, when those casts get cold, they stay cold, so bundle it up if you go out hunting. I'm not sayin' I'm just sayin'. It'll heal, just excercise it a lot when they set it free again.

[manyletters]

It was one of those "helle" blades Mike!! Darn sharp...good steel too...one of my buddys wants to get a couple of those blades after seeing how it cuts  

[Izzy]

Bet you talked your partners into butchering the moose for you.Glad your ok.

[SlowBowinMO]

That's terrible.  A good reminder though, it's easy to slip up in a second.

I nearly fell off a tree a couple weeks ago and I was being careful too.

[Lost Creek Bows]

Hope you get better soon and start being able to shoot the bows again. It must be terrible to have so many bows and not be able to shoot one. Get well soon.

[Brent Rudolph]

Dennis, Dennis, Dennis............    

Got to go with Izzy on this. High price to pay for a butcher job. For what you spent on hospital bills, you could have left the job to the professionals.

Seriously, thanks for the reminder. Sorry it was at your expense brother. Hope you are up and at it soon and none the worst for wear.

[manyletters]

Guys...thanks for the well wishes and warnings...it is kinda neat in a wierd way to watch your own operation. They just gave me a local and I got to watch them extending the cut to find the tendon and then sewing it back together.

[Rocks]

Hope you have a speedy recovery and good reminder for everyone to be careful out there!

[NorthernCaliforniaHunter]

GODSPEED ON YOUR RECOVERY!

[fido dog]

That's all I needed to hear! I'm getting a Helle!

[mmgrode]

Originally posted by manyletters:
Guys...thanks for the well wishes and warnings...it is kinda neat in a wierd way to watch your own operation. They just gave me a local and I got to watch them extending the cut to find the tendon and then sewing it back together.

I don't know about you, but I like to keep my insides on the inside     I got local anesthesia when I did some finger carving a few years back.  I remember thinking to myself "Man, the way they are scrubbing that wound("gaping wound" might be a more apt description),I'm gonna feel it when this wears off. Modern medicine's pretty amazing.
Matt
ps- Congrats on the moose!

[BRONZ]

Follow the protocol that the Occupational Therapist will review/has reviewed (?) with you.  Active movement too soon can rupture the surgery and you'll be back under the knife with more weeks tacked on to your immobilization/recovery.  Hope that it all goes well!

[BOHO]

I'm glad it worked out for you but it could have been much worse. Glad your gonna keep your thumb.