Hank is a Doctor

Well, I go up to Park City a few times a week to work on projects. I was up there last night, and my uncle David was working on a new tool that would speed up the process of making aluminum parts. It was this saw blade from hell on a hand grinder.

It looked mean.

And then during demonstration, I hear all hell break loose and look over to see the grinder wrapped up in his jacket. The look on David's face was priceless. He looked like he had just dodged a bullet.

Then the blood started to show. The grinder spun around and took out the ol pinky. We grabbed his surgical glasses, and rushed up to the makeshift Surgical table.

I had not eaten anything all day long(dont tell Katie, she gets pissed when I forget to eat) and I started to get lightheaded with all the excitement. I had to lay down for a while, but then I was a good assistant.

We had to stitch up some stuff under the skin next to the tendons. We put three stitches under the skin, and then about 15 to close up the wound. We had this pesky vein that kept squirting out blood(think garden hose) so we put a clamp on it. It was a successful surgery, and David is on the road to recovery. He went to work today, but he is having a hard time putting his gloves on, and when he does have it on, blood pools on the bottom of the glove. People do not like bloody hands in their mouth, so he is coming home... We wish you a speedy recover.








For you doctors out there, we closed the fasia covering the metacarpalphalangal joint and the sheath surrounding the extensor tendons... David tried to cut them out with a grinder. This is Hank, and yes, this is my first Blog ever... Now I can tell Katie I do more then browse Motorgeek.com and Ebay. :)