Friday

[snagged in outlet 3]

Call me next time... I could have gotten it out.

Elaborate please.

SIO3

[Quillback]

Elaborate please.

SIO3

His plan is to amputate the finger with a meat cleaver, yank the hook out of the amputated digit, pack the finger in ice and send the patient to a surgeon to get the finger re-attached.

[techo]

His plan is to amputate the finger with a meat cleaver, yank the hook out of the amputated digit, pack the finger in ice and send the patient to a surgeon to get the finger re-attached.

Might have been cheaper!

[snagged in outlet 3]

Pretty low tech, but I guess it would work.

Lucky it's not imbedded in his head.

SIO3

[Phil Lilley]

Yea Denny- it wouldn't have worked.

[Leonard]

Hey Denjac...

Think of it this way..

Probably the biggest thing your hook all year...LOL

Sorry about your finger bud..

I had a Rapala go 2 barbs into my knee once up there at the dam... with a fish still attached..

[Bill Babler]

Lots of nice post on Denny's accident, but none of them will work on a megabass with the outward barb. Simply impossible to pull the barb with the old fishing line trick, and anyone that wants to slice into their diget with a scalpel, has way more of those swinging things than me.

No way Phil could have gotten it out. He is good and has tended to me before, but not on this deal.

The $350.00 charge is why this country is in a medical crisis today. Simply Stupid Charge for a few minutes, and this was not at an ER, it was at a clinic. Couple of dozen eggs should have been payment enough.

I think he should have pulled a Ronnie Lott and just diked it off and went on about his business, but I guess some of us are just tougher than others.

[Gary Lange]

I guess that just tells me that I better suck it up and push it through myself, cut it off and pull it out. Then use the money I saved for some new tackle.

[Stump bumper]

That was cheap, last August I smashed mt finger between the boat and the rollar. I went to the emerency room at North West Medical were I spent 4 hours waiting on an x-ray and a doctor to look at it for 2 min and tell me that the gushing wound with a piece of bone sticking out was a broken bone and he could not stitch up a wound over a broken bone. I got a small bandage that had to be replaced by the time I walked to the parking lot.

I went home, removed the small piece of bone and stoped the bleading with super glue. The first bill to the insursance was $1400 then the Doctor's office billed $1500 for the same vist. I complained to Tricare, and not only did they not pay(after verfing the care) they thearted the doctor with fraud.

I used to say the only thing they could do at emerency rooms was stop bleading, set bones and start breathing but now I am doubting two of those.

I am very glad you found confindent medical care that didn't brake the bank, but I am betting if they were charging the government the bill would have twice that.

[snakem]

This one could have been bad. Was out fishing one day, wind was a howling. I saw a crankbait someone had lost that was hooked on a trotline about two to three feet underwater. So I thought I would get it. I laid down over the side of the boat, stuck my arm in the water to grab it about the time the wind jerk my boat so hard the treble hook stuck in my thumb with it still attached to trot line. The boat was bouncing in the waves thought I was going overboard and deeper the hook went. I had to lay there one hand hooked to the trotline and plug. Thank god I had a pocket knife in my pocket. Got the knive out with my free hand and cut the trotline on both sides of the plug. The hook was buried very deep so I took at my needle nose pliers and jerked the barb back through cut it off and pulled the hook back out. Blood everywhere, mashed it good to bleed it out and washed it in the lake and fished the rest of day.

Snakem out

PS denny sorry about your mishap