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Typ311Dave
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| Bloog wrote: |
My brother got high on PcP when I was 15 and chopped his right hand off with a meat cleaver while locked in our bathroom. He also tried to gouge his eye out with an ice pick while in there.
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Is your bro still alive?
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Bloog
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| Bloog wrote: |
My brother got high on PcP when I was 15 and chopped his right hand off with a meat cleaver while locked in our bathroom. He also tried to gouge his eye out with an ice pick while in there.
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Is your bro still alive? |
Nope. He died in 2000 from Aids contracted from sharing needles.
Thank God! He was really dead most of his adult life anyway...
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blarneyman
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Not missing but re-attached. Right index finger, crushed between the to sections of a freight elevator door. I have about 10% movement and it's crooked and slightly shorter than it's neighbor on the other hand but still there.
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Bloog
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My brother got high on PcP when I was 15 and chopped his right hand off with a meat cleaver while locked in our bathroom. He also tried to gouge his eye out with an ice pick while in there.
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You know, his hand was hangin by a thin piece of skin only and they reattached it? It was amazing that it took! He actually regained about 80% use of it. Enough to play a guitar. (He was very good at guitar before). The only way you could tell aside from the obvious scarring was that the hand was about 10% smaller than the undamaged one.
Medical science is amazing...
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calvinater
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| Posted: Sun Apr 07, 2024 5:44 am Post subject: Re: Anyone here missing digits? |
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markswagen
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| Posted: Thu Apr 11, 2024 9:36 pm Post subject: Re: Anyone here missing digits? |
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only digits l'm missing, are from my bank account.
would be nice to have numbers in front of the decimal point.
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Abscate 
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| Posted: Fri Apr 12, 2024 4:20 am Post subject: Re: Anyone here missing digits? |
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only digits l'm missing, are from my bank account.
would be nice to have numbers in front of the decimal point. |
Bragger. I’m still trying to get some after the decimal point.
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nsracing
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| Posted: Mon May 06, 2024 12:19 pm Post subject: Re: Anyone here missing digits? |
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I have known people who are missing few digits. I took woodshop and our instructor insist on us using the push blocks when using the table saws. He waived his hand to demonstrate its importance -thumb, index and middle fingers all missing.
I have been lucky - I could have lost an eye when I was about to precision grind something on the lathe and the toolpost wheel fractured. Sent fragments of the stone all over and a large piece lodged up the garage door. I was standing on the side of the grinder -as you are supposed to - when powering up the grinder for that very reason.
When you miss an important step in safety can be catasthropic.
John Wayne Bobbit was missing his digit...but only for few hours. Got it re-attached and even made a movie - the 'extended' version.  |
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oprn
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| Posted: Tue May 07, 2024 4:29 am Post subject: Re: Anyone here missing digits? |
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I nearly lost the end of my "Pierre Trudeau" salute digit (Canadian joke from the late '70's when our then leader used it in public) in the log splitter. It was 2/3 cut off but the Dr on call sewed it back together, a bit numb and crooked but it still works!
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nsracing
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| Posted: Tue May 14, 2024 4:55 pm Post subject: Re: Anyone here missing digits? |
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So long as it works -is all that matters after its re-attachment. 
And I will not care how it looks - |
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Glenn
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| Posted: Tue May 14, 2024 4:59 pm Post subject: Re: Anyone here missing digits? |
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This guy did OK with missing part of middle finger.
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nsracing
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| Posted: Tue May 14, 2024 5:39 pm Post subject: Re: Anyone here missing digits? |
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| His gf is really gonna hate that loss of digit. |
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Abscate
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| Posted: Tue May 14, 2024 8:04 pm Post subject: Re: Anyone here missing digits? |
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I’m President of a small club of missing members…wait, is that right?
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Glenn
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| Posted: Wed May 15, 2024 5:18 am Post subject: Re: Anyone here missing digits? |
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| His gf is really gonna hate that loss of digit. |
Say hello to Mr. Left.
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nsracing
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| Posted: Wed May 15, 2024 1:30 pm Post subject: Re: Anyone here missing digits? |
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NJ John
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| Posted: Wed May 15, 2024 4:40 pm Post subject: Re: Anyone here missing digits? |
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I wonder if John Wayne Bobbit or his digit ever visited the Bug-Out?
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