That's natures way of telling you you might want to re-think the setup for the cut.

A good carpenter is one who still has all his fingers, stay safe DD

I'd rather take a puck in the face then have that happen to my hand. Then yet again I wear a visor when I play hockey

Dan Clermont

three surgeons stiched the two tendons back toether. all done with me fully awake

im in good hands, victoria hospital in east grinstead (uk)

its the place that pioneered plastic surgery for fighter pilots in the second world war

the doctors and nurses are from all over the world, including the usa, australia and canada

darn, I've only played hockey for 35 years! Congrats on the half visor! I'll never forget when I took my half visor off for a game just to try it without and ended up with 5 stitches above my eye from an errant stick. WHat I remember best was my wife asking how a stick managed to get wedged between my visor and my eyebrow... when I explained I had removed the visor their was a long pause on the phone.

Never again will I remove it.

Dan Clermont

those ice hockey injuries look positivly painfull

That injury was actually pretty mild and I drove myself the eight miles to the hospital. Got nine stitches had my nose broken in two places, two orbital blowout fractures and bone fragments jammed into my maxillary sinus cavity.  However in all seriousness I have had much worse and I was back on the ice in three weeks.  Fred

its a pretty non descript sort of place but thinking on it, it still has the look of a wartime hospital all the buildings are single storey and most are temporary buildings, only a few are brick built

the dead give away are building names like, the canadain wing, the spitfire wing and the sargents mess (renamed surgeons mess)

the work they did was brilliant



in answer to the question i was edging shelves and snipping off the ends, ever wish youd spent the equivilent of 22 dollars on the right tool, i do

in the uk we might complain about taxes (including 17.5 percent sales tax) and the national health being a post code (zipcode) lottery

but im lucky, my postcode says my nearest specialist hospital is one of the very best in the country for the type of injury

our national health system means my only costs are the train and taxi fares, the surgery cost me nothing. the three months aftercare are also paid for out of taxes

i guess in america it would have cost me an arm and a leg.... 

Ouch DD!
and Ouch again for the involuntary vacation from income

Scott W.

DD,
  Ouch! Here's to a quick recovery.
Mike

 Perhaps scale back the vacation. Beaches in Spain? Sounds like a medical necessity .

I understand about the rec level play but I grew up with NO helmet, and very few pads so this visor thing is killing me. I also am now and have been for years that the introduction of the face mask/cage/visor has been a very unhealty thing for hockey. Imo it promotes sloppiness with the sticks and leads to much more high sticking then was ever true prior.

DD, I am triply sorry for the loss of your work time and that marvelous sounding vacation. Fred

Hi,

   Umm, dirtydeeds?  If this is what you call a "Member Project" (there is a pun in that) I think you are on the wrong forum.

        Sorry that happened to you. (really) 

                         And about your cancelled plans, especially since you were going to bring over a bunch of NAINA stuff


Seth

I won't go with either.  I play with a full cage.  I ain't that pretty but I likes having all my tooths.   

Chuck

Why not use a cage and cut out some of it for "eye holes"?

Some of the guys also use a goalie cage on their helmets.

Chuck

Chuck, I tried that and still hated it. I guess I am too freakin stubborn.  Fred