my car "eatoned" my finger, a defininite must read! *UPDATE*
I just was discharged from the ER because my eaton degloved my middle finger. (if you don't know what that means look it up!) More info and pics to come first thing in the morning!
*UPDATE*
OK so here's the story. I'm down at Camp Pendleton for CTM and I run into joey, an old high school buddy who happens to be a marine now. So he's got an Evo8 and says we should take em out on the highway, so we do and he loves the sound of the cobra and yada yada yada. So we pull of the highway and park in some grocery store parking lot. We pop the hoods, cars still running, and take a look. I notice some bird poop on the bumper down by the snake so I grab a rag and go to wipe it up, next thing I know I'm on the ground. It was all so fast I don't exactly know what happened, but putting 2 and 2 together I figure that somehow the belt snagged the rag and snatched my hand along with it. The second it started to pull my hand in I pulled away but it managed to pull my middle finger into the front on my 2.76 pully where all the bolts are and then pulled my middle two fingers between the idler pully. Long story short it pulled about 2 inches off the muscle tissue and nail completly off the bone. I ended up getting a lot of tissue from the inside cut out, and a little portion of the bone and flexor tendon grinded down because there was a lot of rubber from the belt coated on it ;-(. I got 6 internal sutures pulling the tissue back together and 16 on the outside. The doc said I should regain full range of motion but since he took out so much internal tissue that I will most likely lose the majority of the feeling in the underside of the finger.
My buddy has a bunch of pictures from the debacle but he left for Korea this morning, so ill try to get the ones off my phone loaded up some how.
I just was discharged from the ER because my eaton degloved my middle finger. (if you don't know what that means look it up!) More info and pics to come first thing in the morning!
*UPDATE*
OK so here's the story. I'm down at Camp Pendleton for CTM and I run into joey, an old high school buddy who happens to be a marine now. So he's got an Evo8 and says we should take em out on the highway, so we do and he loves the sound of the cobra and yada yada yada. So we pull of the highway and park in some grocery store parking lot. We pop the hoods, cars still running, and take a look. I notice some bird poop on the bumper down by the snake so I grab a rag and go to wipe it up, next thing I know I'm on the ground. It was all so fast I don't exactly know what happened, but putting 2 and 2 together I figure that somehow the belt snagged the rag and snatched my hand along with it. The second it started to pull my hand in I pulled away but it managed to pull my middle finger into the front on my 2.76 pully where all the bolts are and then pulled my middle two fingers between the idler pully. Long story short it pulled about 2 inches off the muscle tissue and nail completly off the bone. I ended up getting a lot of tissue from the inside cut out, and a little portion of the bone and flexor tendon grinded down because there was a lot of rubber from the belt coated on it ;-(. I got 6 internal sutures pulling the tissue back together and 16 on the outside. The doc said I should regain full range of motion but since he took out so much internal tissue that I will most likely lose the majority of the feeling in the underside of the finger.
My buddy has a bunch of pictures from the debacle but he left for Korea this morning, so ill try to get the ones off my phone loaded up some how.
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