Photo by Rick Gush
I learned the hard direction that carelessness in the garden can result to terrible results .
As you may be able to guess from the statute title of today ’s post , I ’m typecast this blog with only nine fingers .
Usually , everyone who fires up a chain saw is aware of the unsafe potential of the dick . But accidents do n’t usually fall out if one is actively witting of the danger involve , and such accidents are a fully grown surprise . When one is not thinking about the electrical line in the ditch or the peril of a freshly dilute tree arm , danger sneaks up from an unexpected corner and strikes . I think of myself as fairly chance event - savvy , and I make sort of a big deal of rehearsing and calculating all the dissimilar possibility when I eff I ’m doing something serious , but …
Yesterday morning , I was working at my friend Richard ’s garden . We were digging out a big tree diagram dais so we could build a ramp to make pass from one terrace to another . I was kneeling and using a picking to relax the considerable amounts of rock andsoilstuck between the various roots . I did remember to annul hitting myself in the question with the pick on the backswing ( because I ’ve done that before ) , but I did n’t consider that situation otherwise dangerous . Aside from wearing gloves to protect my hands from scratches , the probability of any danger did n’t really enter my mind .
I was swinging the pick pretty hard , kneeling in front of the stump and pounding away . On one blow I get around extra hard to dislodge a large rock and ended up hitting the index digit on my left hand against a hard root . I smashed the fingerbreadth really well , and right away , I knew I ’d done major damage . surprisal , pain , and shame all swamp into my brain in an second .
I ’ll spare you the gory details , but serve to say , I travel to the local hospital and then made my mode to the big orthopedic ward down the coast in Sestri Levant , Italy .
Italy might be eldritch in a mass of way , but the healthcare organization is passably bully . The seven or eight hours I spent with doctors , nurse , Adam - ray technicians and surgeons did n’t be me a cent . I did spend 8 euros that eve for antibiotics and an ice rink pack , though .
The gravid price I ’m paying in the whole incident is in pain and disgrace . Today , I ’m type much more slowly and am a mo concerned for a heavy report I am reckon to land up later today . The whole spate was obviously my own flaw , and I feel uncomfortable accepting the condolences of my Quaker and the loving ministrations of my wife .
So lease today ’s photo serve as a safety poster . If even one lector debar hurt themselves as a termination of fancy today ’s unpleasant image , the web log will have done a good matter — for somebody else , at least .
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