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comment by ThurberMingus
ThurberMingus  ·  1283 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Pubski: October 14, 2020

My grandad cut the base of his thumb deep on a table saw, I think he was about 80 at the time. He was a surgeon and captain of a MASH unit in the Korean war, so his first thought was "there would be a lot more blood if I had hit the artery", so he went inside and tried to get good pictures of his exposed artery before bandaging it and driving himself to the hospital. I think he didn't tell his kids until he was back home from the emergency room.