Personal Injuries (Was Re: [UA] Secret Wound Point system)

[Russell Mirabelli]

> 
> >I now invite other list members to contribute their own personal injuries
> >for use in UA.

Hm. Don't know how useful this is.

I have the stereotypical programmer relationship with power tools: I don't
like them, and they don't like me. I was helping a friend put a peephole
in (his own) front door. My job was to hold a 2x4 on the other side of the
door from him so that the wood of the door wouldn't splinter.

You know what's coming, don't you?

I'm a total moron who believed that his friend would stop drilling before
penetrating the 2x4. So instead of safely holding the 2x4 on either end, I
held it in the middle.

Yep. That's what's coming.

My friends asked if I was getting ready for a south-american style
passion play. One of the scariest things for a person who types for a
living and plays bass as a serious (money making) hobby is the loss of a
hand.

Somehow, I yanked my hand back before the drill did more than superficial
damage; it only penetrated around an eighth of an inch. No bones touched,
no ligaments, just tissue. It was swirled around and around. Not much
blood either...

The thing I *really* remember about it (other than screaming like a little
girl) is the *shock*. When you experience trauma, your body shuts down,
and I experienced this in spades.

I still have a scar from this (they couldn't stitch it or anything), and
my hand curls a little more than it might naturally. The freaky bit,
though, is that my palmprint grew again into the scarred area-- the lines
appeared in the new flesh! I really didn't expect that to happen...

Russell "yesIfindtrepanationevenscarierafterthisincident"Mirabelli


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