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biophile87
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you are expecting dinner guests and accidentally lose the piece of finger somewhere in this house and the guests are coming and you know that th Child is going to blab thst theree's a pice of finger somewhere but no matter cuz the blleding hasn't stopped anyway?
tbc...
SmartsyArtsy
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wow! just go in the bathroom clain lousy that you found it an flush
or just claim it's a halloween prank.
tightly wrap your finger. it will stop bleeding soon
pennygirl
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Tell them there's a piece of finger in the food and the finder gets $5. Kind of like the penny in a Christmas Pudding.
lifeisamazing
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Bio, ouch. :(
Cate
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So how much finger is detached? For a fairly substantial period of time it can be reattached should you find it. Put it in something cool but not ice (which would damage it more) and over to the ER. My brother had one finger and two finger parts reattached and they worked great.
Cate
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Thinking about how one would lose a finger part and not know where it is remained me of this song about a detachable body part.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NQBPgJQhQHc
SmartsyArtsy
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My post, first sentence makes No sense. Stupid computer.
Corvus
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thast rite blaim tha keeborde!
great idea
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I've got to tell you bio, if I lost part of a digit while chopping veggies for dinner (not an unlikely occurrence, mind you) the last thing I would do is go write a blog post about it! before I found the missing chunk nonetheless!
how did you even type as well as you did? (better than smartsy who has all her fingies intact).
Mondoman
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I'm with gi in hoping your typing means you're not grievously wounded (as in Monty Python Black Night flesh wound).
seattletree
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HOLY M O G I just woke up the guys laughing out loud.. that's gross.. hahahhaha
enatai70
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If it's not a big piece, you could see if a cat or dog could find and eat it?
Mondoman
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OK, so I left out the K in Knight. (slinks away)
biophile87
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ok, all is well. i sliced it on the mandolin when i was doing the zucchini (thin slice, not thick, thankfully). So I felt the slice, and thankfully didn't bleed into the zukes. But there was a surprising amount of blood. Thus I noted (I made a fist to staunch the bleeding), that amongst the blood the angle of my fingertip look funny...
I look through the zucchini and lo and behold, there is the piece of finger. So I pick it up, and am debating with myself whether it's big enough to sew on, and mourning the probability that I'll probably have a funny finger (not the first mind you). At this point I notice there is still an awful lot of blood and it's dripping on the floor and there are people coming and I don't want to do extra cleaning. So I go to the bathroom, and get really agitated and flustered because the Child went #2 and didn't flush the toilet. Dammit. That means she didn't wash her hands. We're working on this.
My brain blew a fuse from the overload and that's when I lost track of the finger. Did I leave it in the kitchen? Did I set it down? Did I flush it?
Anyway, a neighbor dropped me off at the ER, and I got some respect from the staff in regard to blood volume in the towels and size/depth/sharpness of laceration.
I am also proud to report that the Child did excellently, helped me clean up the blood and did not freak. We wanted to examine the wound more closely, but we couldn't due to blood surge. So a little scientific learning opportunity was lost, but I'm quite certain there will be more.
The story ends with the veggie lasagna turning out mediocre, due to inattentive assembly. I'm just not that domestic. Or coordinated it turns out.
The moral of this story: do use the stupid little safety device that comes with your mandolin.
RichY
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It is OK, in my house, everyone's fingers are about .25" shorter because of the use of mandolins ( maybe we all should use Vegi-Matics)
cyoungers
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Been there, done that. Ouch!
DimpleDolly
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*Scratches her head lookin' at the screen tilted a little*
Ernie
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It is OK, in my house, everyone's fingers are about .25" shorter because of the use of mandolins
RichY, there must be a lot of jamming going on at your place!
Wow, yeah, running over to the computer to post my dilemma on MyBallard would not be my first thought. Thanks for thinking of us!
Veggie lasagne is overrated. Give me cheese lasagne with veggies on the side anytime.
biophile87
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It is wacky that I posted. I was waiting to see if bleeding would stop, and hadn't decided that a visit to the ER was necessary yet. I gave it about 1.5 hours before I went. Enough time to post and half-ass that lasagna. Yes, it does appear that my priorities were a little crooked. Bleh.
phoo
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the holder thing for the mandolin never works well. You can buy a glove that is cut resistant - it has metal fibers woven through it. Slicing yourself would still hurt, but not slice off body parts.
biophile87
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<--avatar no longer anatomically accurate. :-/
Chef Wahoo
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Ouch! I have an Oxo mandoline, and the holder thingy vexes me, too. I know it's worked OK for some vegetables, although that happens so rarely I can't remember which ones. The holder that came with my old mandoline was even worse. So depending on the vegetable and how thin I need it, I sometimes give up and use my Y-peeler. I don't wound myself as often.
Bio, I hope you are healing well, and aren't in too much pain. What a crappy thing to have happen!
SmartsyArtsy
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Hope it's not hurting anymore. I When I read your post initially, I thought you were most afraid your young one would tell your guests that it was in their food. I didm;t realize you were THAT injured. As for veggie Lasagna, I think it's main problem is that there is too much water from the veggies sagging it up. You probably did do a good job preparing it under the circumstances .
great idea
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if your finger meat ended up in the lasagna, it wasn't veggie, was it?
djolliver
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We have 2 of the things in our house, a stainless steel contraption that is remarkably safe but a pain to clean, and a porcelain bladed plastic gizmo I've named "Devil Tool" that I can't seem to use without drawing incredible amounts of blood. Even though it might be slower, I still prefer to use a knife. To paraphrase a very old Cosby routine: "All I wanted was potatoes au gratin, not a self sacrifice!" Better luck next time.
biophile87
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Thanks for the good thoughts all. The data shows that this lasagna is not a dish to make right before people arrive. Accidents happen if I don't take my sweet time. Apparently, I had forgotten that the last time we'd had people over and I made this I suffered some similar injury and *did* bleed into the dish. We served it anyway, and unfortunately for our guests, apparently I was drunk and informed them of the secret ingredient after the meal.
With this event, I am 97% certain the finger piece did not end up in the dish. However, I really don't have any idea where it wound up. My last recollection is having it in my hand and debating whether to ice the piece or not.
When I was a child, I did sever the entire tip off one of my fingers, and that did get sewn back on. Living in a 3rd world country, the nurses in the "poor peoples" hospital ER told my grandma to throw the piece away, it was not worth sewing back on. Lucky for me, my grandma refused and took me to the "rich peoples" hospital, where they did sew it back on...That was on the other hand. I guess the Universe just wanted me to be a little more symmetrical.
Back to the present amputation, they gave me an awesome birdcage that protects it from getting bumped. The little cage has been the key in pain control. If nothing touches it, the pain is a baseline I can ignore. I've experienced far worse, I am proud to say. Yeah, I know that makes me sound like a nutcase.
;-P
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