Margates first trip from home ends prematurley :-(

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Well i started thursday morning on my first trip out where i would be staying in lorry. new shifts were to be leave thurs morning and return mon morning, which i was quite excited about!!! until the morning had come :confused: :confused: . woke up around 6.30 went downstairs and made a coffee no one else up so it was dead quiet, too quiet and as i am sat there drinking me coffee looking at all the pictures of me kids on wallā€¦got a bit stupid and emotional :cry: :cry: :cry: see itā€™s the first time i would have worked away and not been with them for any amount of timeā€¦now i know its only 4 or 5 days away but my kids are my world!!! :laughing: :laughing: :laughing: :laughing:

anyways, my wife comes down we have a chat and i sort meself out and grow up and get on and finish packing me bag. i just go straight to the car as i could not bring myself to say goodbye to me little angels otherwise i would of been off yet again!!! :blush: :blush: :blush: i get to the yard get me keys and orders for silver spring pick up and then off to daventry.

so i am at daventry go and speak to supervisor frostie to find out whats what and where i am off too. get told i am too southampton and i am a passenger with a driver called shaunā€¦npā€™s i thought. so we set off for southampton at 5 we drive down and get on really well make each other laugh ( top bloke even though he supports arsenal :laughing: :laughing: )

we get to southampton and shaun starts unloading, and he gets this pallet six foot plus with alchol on it and he was struggling to get it on tailift as he was slipping and sliding and could not get a grip on trailor floor ā€¦ so just an instictive reaction i grab bottom of pallet and shout up to shaun u push mate and iā€™ll pullā€¦he obviously didnā€™t hear me and he gave it one huge push it came onto tailift and he dropped it straightaway :exclamation: :exclamation: :exclamation: bang yep u guessed it straight down on both hands as i was pulling out.

luckily my hands was not crushed as i was nearly out, but both middle fingers kopped it. blood starts gushing out my left middle finger. we go into store and i run it under cold tap and i am feeling very faintā€¦and believe this no one on site was a first aider :exclamation: :exclamation: :exclamation: :exclamation: one of the girls was just leaving and her husband took me up to southampton university hospital :laughing: :laughing:

once there get seen by the doctor and my finger is up like a hot air ballon and throbbing like big rons [zb] (for those that donā€™t know big ron was a 70ā€™s ā– ā– ā– ā–  star :wink: ) he has a look and says that i need a hot sinature to elviate the pressure as my nail was nearly off cause of the build up off blood underneathā€¦now a hot sinature is where the heat up a needle till it glows red and place it on nail where it just melts a hole in the nail. they do this and just a spot of blood comes out :cry: :cry:

then i have an x-ray which confirms that the tip of my middle finger is obliterated. so i am back in a+e where doctor comes back and says we are gonna have to cut nail off as i have a bad laceration underneath which needs stiching as well as cut on undernath part of my finger. so they cut nail off put in 4 stitches under my nail :cry: :cry: :cry: then put nail back in to act as a splint till new nail grows back with 4 butterly stiches holding the nail in place then the cut underneath my finger they insert 3 more stiches :cry: :cry: :cry: the other hand on my other middle finger the cut was not too serious and got away with a bit of glue in the wound :laughing:

so all in all not a good night out :wink: we leave southampton bout 2ish in the morning and get back to daventry where i get informed i will be taken home by another driver at midday. now i want to say this now before others do i know this was a stupid thing to do!!! it was just a natural reaction seeing another driver struggle and next time i will jump up on lift and push it with himā€¦so no silly replies please as i am suffering enough with my stupidity thanku :wink: :wink: :blush: :blush:

poor old shaun did feel bad and that it was his fault but like i said to him i was the daft one so not to worry. but i wanna thank staff at southampton uni hospital as they were fantastic and treated me really really well. also the jokes back at the yard have started which i have to swallow with shouts across the yard like ā€œah fingers is back!!ā€ and how you gettin home you gonna thumb a lift" which i did find quite funnyā€¦anyways lesson learned wonā€™t ever happen again :laughing: :laughing: :laughing:

when i got back home yesterday my wife gave me a big hug and just looked at me and said " i know you were not looking forward to being away, but that was a bit drastic to get back home early!!" to which i replied " well i love ya all that much, now get me to chinese takeaway so i can get home have something nice to eat and a cold beer!!!"

so now i am off for a week at least and just as i was gettin used to idea of being away, i gotta go through it all over again :exclamation: :exclamation: :exclamation:

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Well, what can I say, Margate?? Yer daft sod!!! Fancy putting yer paws UNDER the pallet. Glad a lost nail is all the damage you got thoughā€¦ a few stitches is nothing.
Just consider it all part of the learning curve, mate :slight_smile: I watched a mate of mine lose his FINGER thro holding a roof post in for a fork lift driver while the forkie used his truck to ram the post homeā€¦ my mate had his finger in the wrong place so a nail is mild :slight_smile:
Anyway, have a good week at home, mate, and gives those nippers a cuddle

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margatemafia:
once there get seen by the doctor and my finger is up like a hot air ballon and throbbing like big rons [zb] (for those that donā€™t know big ron was a 70ā€™s ā– ā– ā– ā–  star :wink: ):

Once Iā€™d found out that was going to happen (swelling) I would have got Sean to back the pallet truck up and do it again but sticking another part of me anatomy under the pallet.
Then I would have asked the doctor to leave the swelling but take the pain away :unamused: :wink: :laughing:

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margatemafia:
also the jokes back at the yard have started which i have to swallow with shouts across the yard like ā€œah fingers is back!!ā€ and how you gettin home you gonna thumb a lift"

ā– ā– ā– ā–  it :exclamation: Beat me to it :grimacing: :grimacing: :grimacing: :grimacing: :grimacing: :grimacing: :grimacing: :grimacing: :grimacing:

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OUCH!!! Get well soon Wayne.

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Coffeeholic:
OUCH!!! Get well soon Wayne.

Thought you were going to the toilet Neil :question: :confused:. Make your mind up :smiley:

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sorry rob to spoil your fun mate :wink: :wink: :laughing: :laughing: , north surrey mate if i hadnā€™t of been in so much pain i might of thought of that :wink: :wink: and bear the babies have had massive one arm cuddles already mate :laughing: :laughing: :laughing: :laughing: :laughing: thanks coffeeā€¦have been informed the pallet that fell was just short of a ton in weightā€¦so i am very grateful i still have both my hands :exclamation: :exclamation:

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you were all fingers and thumbs then mate

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Been, gone and back again. I left the other post posting while I made the trip. :wink: :smiley:

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something like that neil mate :wink: :laughing: but aint anymore :wink:

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Well I wear steel capped boots, but I reckon you going to need a suit of armour for work. :smiley:

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Thatā€™ll teach you :unamused: :wink: .

Afternoon dangerous :laughing: :open_mouth: :slight_smile: :stuck_out_tongue: .

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Oh Wayne ya numb nutā€¦ :laughing: :laughing: :laughing:

Sorry mate, I dont mean to laugh, it could have been ā– ā– ā– ā–  sight worseā€¦ Just get better soon mateā€¦ :wink:

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i wouldnā€™t worry bout it andy mate, the one thing i didnā€™t lose that night was my sense of humour still managed to make people laugh and take the rise outta meself for being a DOUGHNUT :exclamation: the doctor did say at the hospital if that weight had gone down with both hands fully underneath it then it would of been 50/50 to wether i would of kept em or not with the way the bone in my middle finger crushedā€¦so everytime i get a pain in me fingers i just think of what he said and thank god i got away lightly very lightly indeed mate :exclamation: :exclamation: :exclamation: lesson learned though mate :wink: :wink:

thanks lib :wink: :laughing: :laughing:ā€¦muckles know where i could get a suit of armour cheap mateā€¦looked on ebay and couldnā€™t find anything :wink: :wink: :laughing: :laughing:

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hereā€™s some exercise for you wayne

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sorry ment to add get well soon mate :wink:

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ROFLMAO :laughing: :laughing: :laughing: :laughing: :laughing: :laughing: :laughing: :laughing:

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margatemafia:
ā€¦muckles know where i could get a suit of armour cheap mateā€¦looked on ebay and couldnā€™t find anything :wink: :wink: :laughing: :laughing:

Quite a few sets in the Tower of London, not being used at the moment so Her Majesty might be open to offers.
The Henry VIII set are quite impressive in the Cod Piece department, might suit a man with the balls to try and lift a one tonne pallet with his bare hands. :laughing:

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youā€™ll be glad itā€™s the actros your driving with the automatic gear box

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muckles:

margatemafia:
ā€¦muckles know where i could get a suit of armour cheap mateā€¦looked on ebay and couldnā€™t find anything :wink: :wink: :laughing: :laughing:

Quite a few sets in the Tower of London, not being used at the moment so Her Majesty might be open to offers.
The Henry VIII set are quite impressive in the Cod Piece department, might suit a man with the balls to try and lift a one tonne pallet with his bare hands. :laughing:

no muckles he should be in the tower of london so as he is safe :laughing: :laughing:

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kitkat:
no muckles he should be in the tower of london so as he is safe :laughing: :laughing:

What with all them sharp axes and swords, heā€™d lose more than his fingers. :laughing: