Clueless in Bizarre Gardening Accident!
Who knew deadheading could be so deadly? While yakking away, I was busily shearing off the gone-by flowers on my groundcover thymes when suddenly I snipped off the tip end of my index finger. Excitement ensued, with a trip to the ER, a two-hour wait to be seen, with me all the while clutching my finger and holding it above my head! No flap of skin to be saved, who knows what happened to it, now the finger is all wrapped up, and I am anxiously wondering if my fingerprints will have to be adjusted down at the FBI.
This will put a crimp in the garden chores for the time being, and you have no idea how many corrections I've had to make trying to type this! Not to mention how stoop, stoop, stoopid I feel! D'Oh!!!!
posted by tcg @ 1:59 PM
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I sliced into my index finger 25 years ago while taking cuttings off a cotoneaster, and I still have a scar that changed my fingerprint.
Get well soon!
Hello
wish I could say you are the only person I knew who did this, but I know myself all too well. I did it when I was landscaping during my late teens, now that I am back into gardening I feel blessed for 8 years with no loss to my index finger.
mine healed. good luck.
Ooooh... OUCH! I'm glad you're okay enough to type and post at least. Did you at least miss the bone?
It's so easy to cut yourself when you're talking, or just getting ahead of what you're doing, even. I sliced my fingertip a good one early this spring. (Luckily for me, the blade ran down the length of my fingertip instead of across it. So I just have a huge gap in my fingerprint now.) You shouldn't feel too stupid--if it's happened to you and to me, there are probably more gardeners out there with war stories about cutting back plants and getting flesh instead.
Actually my finger didn't go-there was enough skin still attached to "seal" it all back-very painful experience
Gardeners & Chefs...happens all too many times, the
battle wounds. Take care. I hope you are back to
100% soon. We could all feel that snip!
Hummingbird is visiting my hanging baskets outside
the kitchen window today. May your day be as glorious!
I'm sorry! But it might comfort you to know that I did a similar thing when I was cutting the roses down in the spring.
You can add my husband to your list of "others." That's one of those times when you wish you could just take back that one second of time and do it all over again.
I'll admit I cut my pinky on the outermost part....I was trimming my shrubs out front and only wanting to cut a few inches off the bush I would grab a clump, pull it out and then cut. I started the chore early enough in the morning so I would have plenty of time.....Well, as I was cutting into the bush, I forgot to take notice where my pinky was....(it was tucked under just far enough to get clipped) along the nailbed. Yuck!! I just about fainted.....
Then about an hour later, off to the doctor I go at 9:30 am. The doctor comes into the room....small talk including ewwwweeee!! let me seehe saysto me "I can't stitch that,because it was so close to the nail..(nailbed)
His idea was to use a butterfly band aid and neosporon, push it back together and wrap a wad of gauze around it til it healed. It took about 2 weeks to heal completely, but the neosporon helped it heal beautifully. I didn't have a rough edge on the cut at all. I do have a slight scar, but hey it's on my pinky
:-)....lol
Best part of the whole situation if it had to happen....the pruning shears I was using were Brand new that morning....lol
Hello Clueless,
Do they make such a thing as steel-tipped gardening gloves? Sounds like there is quite a market for anyone willing to put a little R&D into it. Get well soon!
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