Wednesday's Walk Down Memory Lane - Dad's injury

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When I was still single I was getting ready to go on a date. We were just getting into the car when my brother yelled out the door that someone needed to drive to the Emergency Room. He came backing out the front door with his hands in front of him, cradling my father's bloody hands.

He said that my father had cut his hand on the table saw and to go get some rags. Ok, I was a little rattled and not the smartest cookie in the jar. I ran into the house and came out with...a dusting rag! Well, it was a rag!!! It was just very ...dusty...and dirty! But they wrapped my dad's hand up in it and we took off in my date's VW bug.

The car didn't have very good shocks and we lived in the country. Every bump in the back road my dad would groan and yell, but Neil knew he needed to hurry.

When we got to the ER, my brother went in with my dad and I took care of the signing in. Then we had to find my mother. My parents had a very elderly couple visiting. My mom and the woman had gone shopping, but I was pretty certain I knew where they'd gone so we drove there and I told my mom what happened and brought her and the friend back to the hospital.

Then we remembered the man. It turned out, he was very hard of hearing and never even knew anything had happened and that we had all left the house! We had quite a laugh over that.

My dad cut off one finger and the tip of another one. The dr. couldn't do anything about the finger cut off, so we wrapped it in foil and put it in the freezer. My dad has always been fascinated by science and medical things, so we figured he would want to check it out when he was home. But his mother, my grandmother, was coming to help out and he was afraid that with her bad eyesight she might mistake it for sausage, so he asked us to throw it out!!

I have a closeup shot of my dad's hand when he was playing pool a few years ago, but it's on a CD and I can't figure out how to get it onto the computer. So here is a picture of my family years ago, just so you have a picture!



I'm the cutie in the middle, looking up at my dad. This picture is a huge one that is hanging over my parents bed.